Late Summer Blooms

"Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy." ~Astrid Alauda
"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." - Hans Christian Andersen

Saturday Morning Sunshine

"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine."- Tryon Edwards

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night." -Steve Martin

Looking Out My Back Door

Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch.
Imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm singin',
Doo, doo, doo, Lookin' out my back door.
Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band.
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
Doo, doo doo.
Bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrows.
Doo, doo, doo, Lookin' out my back door. - CCR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqZhM75aGMg

Women and Children First?

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes." - Carl Sandburg

Knock-knock Who's there?

Banana

Banana who?

Knock-Knock Who's there!?

Banana

Banana who!?

Knock-knock Who's there!!?

Orange

Orange who!!?

Orange you glad I didn't say banana?

Galveston

I vote we go to the Gulf of Mexico
You and me by the sea
Palm trees call me, oh that’s the place I want to be
Down where the southern breezes blow
On the Gulf of Mexico - sung by Alabama




















Bishop's Palace, survived the 1900 Galveston hurricane,
the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history





Sacred Heart Church, destroyed 1900, replaced 1904

What Goes Around, Comes Around

Ojibway Island, Tom Sawyer Contest, 1950s

50 years later, four of"Becky Thatcher's" grandchildren

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children." - Mark Twain

Grass Lake Cats

"Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds." - Jean Burden

Smoke and Mirrors

"What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter." - Abraham Cahan

"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking." - David Joseph Schwartz

http://previewmagic.com/bannon-smokemirrors.html

Wings and Things

Halifax Airport 9-12-01

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.
Blackbird fly Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.
Blackbird fly Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise. - The Beatles

Paul McCartney and Wings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFjTN11CnNY&feature=related

Pigs in Dreamland

"Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love." - Shelley Duvall

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill

Frogs

"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. " -Mao Tse-Tung

"I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs." - Cameron Diaz

Hotel del Coronado

Location of the movie "Some Like It Hot"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OhdD5n405I

Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old;
Some like it hot, some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot, nine days old

Mountains

California
Nevada
"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery." - John Ruskin
Climb every mountain, search high and low
Follow every byway, every path you know.
Climb every mountain, ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow, 'til you find your dream! - Rodgers and Hammerstein

Hollywood Doorways of Bougainvillea

Oh what a dream, oh what a story. Don’t have to weep, come and enjoy a smile. Opening scene is just like a doorway. Here’s a story, in rhythm and rhyme.
There is a tree on the street and in the forest. Lavender dream whispered a poet. Bright potpourri. The envy of orchids, when it’s dressed in a pink and fuchsia twine. Jacaranda tree and the Bougainvillea vine. - Al Jarreau

Swings

" My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings. " - Jay London

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone

And says at last just as the time bell rings

Thank you, goodnight, now its time to go home

And he makes it fast with one more thing

We are the sultans of swing" -

Dire Straits

Benches

Benches in Kerrytown

"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. " -Napoleon Bonaparte

Painting "The Bench" (My Garden)

"There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug." - Edouard Manet