Bubblegum Snapshots

whispers

2011-10-13T19:49:00.000-04:00

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper;

I cannot quite make it out.

~Annie Dillard

nom nom

2011-10-05T10:48:00.000-04:00

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate -

you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

~Julia Child

communion

2011-10-01T18:22:00.000-04:00

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic.

It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind

and body together as one process.

~Chungliang Al Huang

Jubilation

2011-06-05T20:39:00.000-04:00

There is something about the outside of a horse

that is good for the inside of a man.

~Winston Churchill

Four-legged love

2011-05-06T22:01:00.000-04:00

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog.

~Konrad Lorenz

Freedom

2011-02-15T11:00:00.000-05:00

A horse is poetry in motion.

~Author Unknown

Smile

2011-02-13T21:24:00.000-05:00

Always remember to be happy

because you never know who's falling in love with your smile.

~Author Unknown

La dame en rouge

2011-01-18T20:09:00.000-05:00

When in doubt, wear red.

~Bill Blass

Concrete zoo

2011-01-08T13:52:00.000-05:00

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

~Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo

Happy Holidays

2010-12-17T11:35:00.000-05:00

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:

the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

~Burton Hillis

Wisdom of elders

2010-11-26T16:34:00.000-05:00

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

~William Shakespeare

2010-11-17T22:17:00.002-05:00

A weed is but an unloved flower.

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

On grandparents

2010-11-05T08:00:00.003-04:00

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance.

They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life.

And, most importantly, cookies.

~Rudolph Giuliani

Joy

2010-11-04T08:53:00.000-04:00

The sun is the epitome of benevolence -

it is lifegiving and warmthgiving and happinessgiving,

and to it we owe our thanksgiving.

~Jessi Lane Adams

Open skies

2010-11-03T21:18:00.000-04:00

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

~Standing Bear

Ecology vs Economy

2010-10-28T20:11:00.000-04:00

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees,

then names the streets after them.

~Bill Vaughn

Under pregnant skies

2010-10-03T21:24:00.000-04:00

For the man sound in body and serene of mind

there is no such thing as bad weather;

every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do

but make it pulse more vigorously.

~George Gissing, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903

Illumination

2010-09-28T19:54:00.000-04:00

Live in rooms full of light.

~Cornelius Celsus

Sweet autumn

2010-09-23T19:51:00.002-04:00

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.

For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

~Edwin Way Teale

Summertime

2010-08-29T21:33:00.000-04:00

This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer
where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight,
like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and,
with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat,
puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.
~Sarah Orne Jewett

Because everyone loves happy

2010-08-25T21:07:00.000-04:00

If you want to be happy, be.
~Leo Tolstoy

On friends

2010-08-05T21:43:00.001-04:00

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
~Henry David Thoreau

H-two-O

2010-07-25T23:03:00.001-04:00

Seventy-five percent of our planet is water - can you swim?
~Author Unknown

Twinkle little seaglass

2010-07-08T16:36:00.000-04:00

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us
so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or
scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers
like the homesick refugees of a long war.
~Loren Eiseley

Fingers to lips

2010-07-01T16:29:00.000-04:00

Great food is like great sex.
The more you have the more you want.
~Gael Greene

History

2010-06-24T10:42:00.001-04:00

We all grow up with the weight of history on us.
Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do
in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
~Shirley Abbott

I like books

2010-06-20T20:47:00.001-04:00

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it,
or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face.
It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind
can get both provocation and privacy.
~Edward P. Morgan

Zen

2010-06-04T20:22:00.001-04:00

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper;
I cannot quite make it out.
~Annie Dillard

The wisdom of horses

2010-05-14T22:21:00.001-04:00

He knows when you're happy
He knows when you're comfortable
He knows when you're confident
And he always knows when you have carrots.
~Author Unknown

Sans titre

2010-05-06T12:57:00.001-04:00

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have,
and one of the best things you can be.
~Douglas Pagels

Spring has sprung

2010-04-15T09:40:00.000-04:00

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is.
And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want,
but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~Mark Twain

The golden years

2010-03-28T10:29:00.000-04:00

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.
We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~Samuel Ullman

On building materials

2010-03-19T20:51:00.002-04:00

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
~Don Wilder

Wise and beautiful

2010-03-14T19:15:00.001-04:00

Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg.
~Yugoslav Proverb

Emily said it right

2010-02-26T18:55:00.001-05:00

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880

On mankind

2010-02-12T18:42:00.001-05:00

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
~Author Unknown

Dusk

2010-02-03T22:28:00.002-05:00

I'm waiting for the night to fall
When everything is bearable
And there in the still
All that you feel is tranquillity
~Depeche Mode, Waiting For The Night

Tranquility

2010-01-29T10:19:00.001-05:00

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace.
You will find that deep place of silence right in your room,
your garden or even your bathtub.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Reflection

2010-01-18T13:25:00.000-05:00

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business.
A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.
~Robert Brault

On technology

2010-01-13T17:55:00.000-05:00

This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history;
it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities
made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man -
if man is not enslaved by it.
~Jonas Salk

Duality

2010-01-10T18:08:00.001-05:00

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe
and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
~Blaise Pascal

Bloooooo!

2010-01-04T13:33:00.000-05:00

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tree popcicles

2009-12-30T17:12:00.001-05:00

Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn.
~Marche Blumenberg

Yuletide blessings

2009-12-28T19:59:00.001-05:00

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year find you a better man.
~Benjamin Franklin

On Christmas

2009-12-05T23:07:00.000-05:00

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~Mary Ellen Chase

On sadness

2009-11-24T17:01:00.001-05:00

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
~Lamartine

I love mine!

2009-11-12T08:43:00.000-05:00

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.
~Author Unknown

Home

2009-11-08T20:12:00.001-05:00

Peace - that was the other name for home.
~Kathleen Norris

A blessing

2009-11-05T18:58:00.000-05:00

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
~Irish Blessing

On believing

2009-11-03T20:56:00.000-05:00

Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom.
~Author Unknown

Quiet beauty

2009-10-25T19:48:00.000-04:00

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful -
and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
~Pam Brown

Melancholy

2009-10-24T21:11:00.001-04:00

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
~Jean Rhys

Autumn mist

2009-10-22T19:29:00.000-04:00

Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad,
and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.
~Pepper Giardino

Respite

2009-10-18T11:27:00.002-04:00

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
~Elizabeth Lawrence

Breathe it in

2009-10-14T21:42:00.000-04:00

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering,
I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!
~Henri Rousseau

Cloud art

2009-10-11T09:48:00.001-04:00

Nature is my medicine.
~Sara Moss-Wolfe

Yay or neigh

2009-10-10T20:26:00.001-04:00

If you want a stable friendship, get a horse.
~Author Unknown

Story-telling skies

2009-10-09T19:05:00.001-04:00

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
~John Keats

Summer is over...

2009-10-05T21:51:00.000-04:00

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause
between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
~Carol Bishop Hipps

On getting close

2009-10-01T08:30:00.001-04:00

Nature will not be admired by proxy.
~Winston Churchill

Totally.

2009-09-26T22:53:00.000-04:00

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
~Aaron Rose

After dusk

2009-09-24T20:15:00.000-04:00

I love the sweet smell of dawn -
our unique daily opportunity to smell time,
to smell opportunity -
each morning being, a new beginning.
~Emme Woodhull-Bäche

On joy

2009-09-22T10:34:00.000-04:00

Be a rebel against gravity: Skip!
~Jessi Lane Adams

Compassion

2009-09-19T12:13:00.000-04:00

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings,
it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
~Jean Paul Richter

Mother Earth...

2009-09-17T20:41:00.000-04:00

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown,
for going out, I found, was really going in.
~John Muir

A pause in time

2009-09-16T18:37:00.000-04:00

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company,
pets we allow into our solitude.
~Robert Brault

Hail to the morning

2009-09-10T11:34:00.000-04:00

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.
~Robert Brault

Irridescence

2009-09-08T21:32:00.001-04:00

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.
~Frederick L. Knowles

On zzzzz's

2009-08-16T18:48:00.000-04:00

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh yes!

2009-08-10T22:19:00.000-04:00

Wine is bottled poetry.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Summer candy

2009-08-07T22:03:00.000-04:00

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
~Sam Keen

I love a dog

2009-08-06T19:12:00.001-04:00

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
~Will Rogers

In the wind

2009-07-29T20:47:00.001-04:00

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.
~Jimmy Stewart

A wise man once said...

2009-07-22T21:19:00.000-04:00

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow,
he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
~Eric Berne

Crossroads

2009-07-20T21:52:00.001-04:00

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Nature's running machines

2009-07-08T21:01:00.002-04:00

He knows when you're happy
He knows when you're comfortable
He knows when you're confident
And he always knows when you have carrots.
~Author Unknown

on flowers

2009-07-05T20:22:00.001-04:00

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
~The Koran

The great escape

2009-07-01T20:45:00.002-04:00

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry,
as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city
that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.
~George William Russell

On dogs

2009-06-22T22:27:00.000-04:00

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him
and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

creatures, great and small

2009-06-20T22:11:00.002-04:00

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings,
it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
~Jean Paul Richter

Zoom zoom

2009-06-17T15:00:00.001-04:00

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

On vast blue skies

2009-06-16T11:59:00.000-04:00

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
~John Keats

A man is his castle

2009-06-15T19:02:00.001-04:00

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air.
A psychotic is the man who lives in it.
A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
~Jerome Lawrence

A feather for my freedom

2009-06-14T22:50:00.002-04:00

God loved the birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages.
~Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien

On parenting

2009-06-13T15:10:00.001-04:00

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
~Jesse Jackson

Home sweet home

2009-06-09T21:38:00.000-04:00

No man but feels more of a man in the world
if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own.
However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep;
and that is a very handsome property.
~Charles Dudley Warner

Sweet eccentricity

2009-06-07T16:14:00.002-04:00

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.
~Jean Paul Gaultier

On best friends

2009-06-06T09:41:00.001-04:00

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
~O.A. Battista

Home

2009-06-05T09:48:00.001-04:00

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

On liberty

2009-06-02T11:15:00.001-04:00

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~Moshe Dayan

The cat with no hat

2009-06-01T19:09:00.001-04:00

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.
~Tay Hohoff

On the move

2009-05-31T19:55:00.000-04:00

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born? Where is your home?
Where are you going? What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
~Richard Bach

Creature comforts

2009-05-29T09:46:00.001-04:00

A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
~May Sarton

Setting skies

2009-05-23T21:29:00.001-04:00

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
~George Carlin

Rumbling skies

2009-05-22T22:29:00.001-04:00

Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad,
and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.
~Pepper Giardino

Shelter

2009-05-09T16:34:00.001-04:00

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Orgy of colours

2009-05-08T14:31:00.001-04:00

Hard not to smile when feasting your eyes upon such beauties, no?

Where's Waldo?

2009-05-07T13:44:00.000-04:00

Hint: the cat's name is Waldo...

Basking magnolias

2009-05-06T10:55:00.002-04:00

'Tis a shame that magnolia flowers only bloom for a few days out of the year... I find them fascinating!

Green babies

2009-05-05T21:28:00.001-04:00

Mother Nature's little yearly miracles :-)