Bear's Breech

Seymour Library Garden

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,

that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower

where I thought a flower would grow.

~ Abraham Lincoln

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers.

Bald Eagle

Cayuga-Seneca Lock

Think wrongly, if you please,

but in all cases think for yourself.

~ Doris Lessing

More photos of Season 5, Episode 51 at Skywatch Friday.

Street Minstrels

Westcott Street Cultural Fair

The illiterate of the future are not those who can't read or write

but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

~ Alvin Toffler

More interpretations of Theme 26: Music at Photography Challenges.

Our World Tuesday

Skaneateles Lake

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

 ~ Albert Einstein

More interpretations at Our World Tuesday.

Under the Tree

Skaneateles NY

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

~ Michael Korda

More interpretations of #56 *under the tree* at PicStory.

Red Hollyhock

Try a thing you haven't done three times.

Once, to get over the fear of doing it.

Twice, to learn how to do it.

And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

~ Virgil Thomson

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday2.

Russian Sage

 Perovskia atriplicifolia

Creativity comes from trust.

Trust your instincts.

~ Rita Mae Brown

More interpretations at Macro Monday.

Blue Sailboat Cover

Skaneateles Lake

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do,

but it should be a vague idea.

~ Pablo Picasso

More interpretations for Blue Monday.

Bug on Coreopsis

To have ideas is to gather flowers;

to think is to weave them into garlands.

~ Anne Sophie Swetchine

More interpretations at Mellow Yellow Monday.

The Facility

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

~ Bern Wiliams

More interpretations at SOOC Sunday.

More interpretations at Windows, Delirious Doors.

More interpretations of best of june at KApix.

Baby Rattle

Ah, shake, rattle and roll

~ Big Joe Turner

More interpretations of Baby at See It Sunday.

Night Walk

Hunter Dinerant

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party.

You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived,

but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

~ Simon Hoggart

More interpretations at Walk In New York.

Green

It's Not East Being Green

~ Kermit the Frog

More interpretations of Green at UE’s Photo Challenge.

Stacy's Red Rose

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.

If you can fake that, you've got it made.

~ Groucho Marx

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers.

Skywatch Friday: Season 5, Episode 50

Skaneateles Lake

To acquire knowledge, one must study;

but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

~ Marilyn vos Savant

More photos of Season 5, Episode 50 at Skywatch Friday.

Tina´s Wordless Wednesday #47

More photos at Tina’s Wordless Wednesday.

Exotic

Orange Crown Imperial

People always like things that seem exotic. 

~ Jane Birkin

More interpretations of #55 *exotic* at PicStory.

Red Speedboat

Skaneateles Lake

There is no hope of bailing out of a speedboat.

You hit the water and become so much pulp.

~ Donald Malcolm Campbell

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday2.

1957 Chevy Bel-Air 4DR

Prison City Ramblers 21st Annual Father's Day Car Show

Racing is the best way to convert money into noise.

~ Author unknown

More interpretations at Windows, Delirious Doors.

Eastern Pond Hawk Dragonflies

South Spring Pond

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti

More interpretations at Macro Monday.

Blue Motorcycle

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. 

Relaxing your brain is fatal.

 ~ Stirling Moss

More interpretations for Blue Monday.

Yellow Flower

Coreopsis

There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.

~ David Llyod George

More interpretations at Mellow Yellow Monday. 

Bee on Milkweed

The bee is more honored than other animals,
not because she labors,
but because she labors for others.
~ John Chrysostum

More interpretations at SOOC Sunday.

Petal Shadow

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

~ Aesop

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Barn

 Upstate

A jackass can kick a barn down,

but it takes a carpenter to build one.

~ Sam Rayburn

More interpretations of Barn at UE’s Photo Challenge.

Wells College Boat House

Cayuga Lake

I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.

~ David Livingstone

More interpretations of House at See It Sunday.

Writing Instruments

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

~ Joe Bob Biggs

More interpretations of Instruments at PhotoSunday.

Neighborhood Cat

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.

~Josh Billings

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

Hunter Dinerant

I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget

that plays records at the table while you were eating.
~ Phil Harris

More interpretations at Walk In New York.

old toning

Schines Auburn Theatre

By appreciation,

we make excellence in others our own property.

~ Voltaire

More interpretations of old toning at KApix.

Indian Paintbrush

Hawk Weed

Hieracium aurantiacum

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

~ William Shakespeare

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers.

Skywatch Friday: Season 5, Episode 49

Sunday Lake

Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong,

and never into folly.

~ Marquise Du Deffand

More photos of Season 5, Episode 49 at Skywatch Friday.

Tina´s Wordless Wednesday #46

 

More photos at Tina’s Wordless Wednesday.

Clouds

Esker Brook Pond

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

~ William James

More interpretations of #54 *Clouds* at PicStory.

Red Boat Afloat

Stillwater Reservoir

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

~ Phaedrus

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday2.

Wishes

You are never given a wish

without also being given the power to make it come true.
~ Richard Bach

More interpretations of Theme 24: Abstract at Photography Challenges.

Adirondack Log Cabin

Junction of Number Four Road & Stillwater Road

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,

before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

~ John Quincy Adams

More interpretations at Windows, Delirious Doors.

Tiger Swallowtail

Papilio glaucs

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

~ Bette Davis

More interpretations at Macro Monday.

Blue Window Trim

Smile,

for everyone lacks self-confidence

and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

~ André Maurois

More interpretations for Blue Monday.

Yellow Clapboard

For disappearing acts,

it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left

after eight of sleep and eight of work.

~ Doug Larson

More interpretations at Mellow Yellow Monday.

Meadow Fritillary

Bolaria bellona

Each man should frame life

so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

~ Victor Hugo

More interpretations of #53 *F* at PicStory.

Red Rose

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose 

~ Robert Burns 

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday2. 

Black Darter

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

~  Ralph Waldo Emerson

More interpretations at Macro Monday.

Blue Beared Iris

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
~ Alan Bennett 

More interpretations for Blue Monday.

Yellow Pansy

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
~ Henri Matisse

More interpretations at Mellow Yellow Monday.

Eastern Pond Hawk Dragonfly

South Spring Pool

When the heat of the summer
Made drowsy the land,
A dragon-fly came
And sat on my hand;

~ Eleanor Farjeon

More interpretations at SOOC Sunday.

Cherokee Valley Shadow

Background - Blue Ridge Mountains

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

~ Paul Harvey

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Pansy

And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

~ William Shakespeare

More interpretations at Today's Flowers #206.

Plant

Yellow Flag Iris

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill

except for learning how to grow in rows.

~ Doug Larson

More interpretations of Plant at See It Sunday.

Circle

Scottish Games

Create around one at least a small circle

where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

~ Anna Freud

More interpretations of Circle at PhotoSunday.