Cozumel Harbor

I'm sailing away, set an open course for the virgin sea

I've got to be free, free to face the life that's ahead of me

On board, I'm the captain, so climb aboard

We'll search for tomorrow on every shore

And I'll try, oh Lord, I'll try to carry on

I look to the sea, reflections in the waves spark my memory

Some happy, some sad

I think of childhood friends and the dreams we had

We live happily forever, so the story goes

But somehow we missed out on that pot of gold

But we'll try best that we can to carry on

Come sail away, come sail awayCome sail away with me - Styx

Sunset Near the Yucatán Peninsula

"It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded red sun sinks down behind the azure hill,

Which then seems as if the whole earth is bounded, circling all nature, hush'd, and dim, and still,

With the far mountain-crescent half surrounded on one side, and the deep sea calm and chill upon the other, and the rosy sky

With one star sparkling through it like an eye." - Lord Byron

"The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire." Pamela Hansford Johnson

Ornamental Grass

" I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips." ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit

Fountains in the Desert

Three coins in a fountain

Each one seeking happiness

Thrown by three hopeful lovers

Which one will the fountain bless

Three hearts it a fountain

Each heart longing for its home

There they lie in the fountain

Somewhere in the heart of Rome Which one will the fountain bless

Which one will the fountain bless

Three coins in a fountain

Through the ripples how they shine

Just one wish will be granted

One heart will wear a valentine

Make it mine, make it mine, make it mine - Four Aces (Sammy Cahn)

Cousins at the Bay

Happy Birthday to You

Happy Birthday to You

Happy Birthday Dear "Wittle Girl-a"

Happy Birthday to You

Brothers and Dogs

Hey, bird dog get away from my quail

Hey, bird dog you’re on the wrong trail

Everly Brothers

What are little boys made of?

Snips and snails, and puppy dogs tails

That's what little boys are made of !"

Michigan Amish Farm

A farmer travelling with his load
Picked up a horseshoe on the road,
And nailed it fast to his barn door,
That luck might down upon him pour;

That every blessing known in life
Might crown his homestead and his wife,

And never any kind of harm

Descend upon his growing farm.

James Thomas Fields

Under the Golden Arches In Oklahoma

Never met a man I didn't like
High fallutin’ gent or bowery bum
Yes, I've come a long way
Down the pike
Never met a man I didn't like.

Fancy cinema stars, false evangelists,
Politicians, morticians,
And I have reached the conclusion
While hiking the pike
Though I try and I try
Never once met a guy that I didn't like.

Barry Manilow, "The Will Rogers Follies

"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."

Will Rogers

"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need." Will Rogers

Sage and Lavender

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. "
Alice Walker

Purple Coneflower

"I love purple, no matter what color it is." Dad

Box Camera Memories

Emerson School, Mrs. Wertin's 5th grade, Saginaw , Michigan

Indian Children

by Annette Wynne

Where we walk to school each day

Indian children used to play

All about our native land,

Where the shops and houses stand.
And the trees were very tall,

And there were no streets at all,

Not a church and not a steeple

Only woods and Indian people.
Only wigwams on the ground,

And at night bears prowling round

What a different place today

Where we live and work and play!

Sisters

Playmate,

Come out and play with me;

And bring your dollies three.

Climb up the apple tree.
Shout down the rain barrel.

Slide down the cellar door.

And we’ll be jolly friends

Forever more.

Oh no my playmate,

I cannot play with you.

My dolly has the flu.

Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo

I've got no rain barrel.I've got no cellar door.

But we’ll be jolly friends

Forever more.

Down on Main Street

Main Street, Greenfield, Indiana
Main Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan

And sometimes even now, when I'm feeling lonely and beat

I drift back in time and I find my feet

Down on Main Street

Down on Main Street ~ Bob Seger

A Goat in a Coat.....A Dog in a Tog

Olivet College, Michigan

State Fair of Texas

"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail."

Fran Lebowitz

The Last Night at Sandy Pines

Each campfire lights anew
The flame of friendship true
The joy we've had in knowing you
Will last our whole life through.

And as the embers die away
We wish that we could ever stay
But since we cannot have our way

We'll come again some other day.

(Girl Scout Songbook)

It Must be Time for More Things with Wings

Up in the air, Junior Birdsmen!
Up in the air, upside down
Up in the air we're PF flyers
With our noses to the ground
When we hear the grand announcement, and we get our wings of tin! Then you'll know, Junior Birdsmen have sent their box tops in. It takes 4 boxtops, 3 labels, 2 bottle caps, and 1 thin dime !!

Maybe a Cat Would be Nice

Painting by Catherine Lee

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"

Albert Einstein

After the Rain

Let the rain kiss you.

Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Langston Hughes

Baby the Rain Must Fall

Baby, the rain must fall

Baby, the wind must blow

Wherever my heart leads me

Baby, I must go

Baby, I must go

By Glenn Yarbrough

"Rain is grace; rain is the sky condscending to the earth; without rain there would be no life." John Updike

Carol's Sheep and Other Things

Yale 1909
The Whiffenpoof Song
"We're poor little lambs who have lost our way, Baa Baa Baa,
We're little black sheep who have gone astray, Baa Baa Baa. Gentlemen songsters off on a spree doomed from here to eternity, Lord, have mercy on such as we, Baa Baa Baa"

Gentlemen-Rankers
by Rudyard Kipling
"We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,Baa! Baa! Baa!
We're little black sheep who've gone astray,Baa--aa--aa!
Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,
Damned from here to Eternity,
God ha' mercy on such as we,Baa! Yah! Bah!"

Ixtapa

Some beach, somewhere
There's a beautiful sunset burning up the atsmosphere
There's music and dancing and lovers romancing in the soft evening air
On some beach, somewhere
On some beach, somewhere

Blake Shelton

Michigan Seems Like a Dream to Me Now

"It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw. I've come to look for America." Simon & Garfunkel