Lettering

Wine improves with age.

The older I get, the better I like it.
~ Anonymous

More interpretations of Lettering at KApix.

Blue Morning Glory

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

~ Walt Whitman

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers.

More interpretations at Today's Flowers #209.

Skywatch Friday, Season 6, Episode 8

State Park at the New York State Fair

If you ever start feeling like you have

the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world,

all you have to do is go to a state fair. 

Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going,

'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

~ Jeff Foxworthy

More photos of Season 6, Episode 8 at Skywatch Friday.

Rescued Eastern Screech Owl

New York State Fair

Birds have found a home at Hawk Creek Wildlife Center Inc.

More interpretations of World Bird Wednesday.

Tina´s Wordless Wednesday #57

More photos at Tina’s Wordless Wednesday.

Red Baseball Jersey

Logan Pevny

State College Spikes

Baseball, it is said, is only a game.  True. 

And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. 

~ George F. Will

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday2.

Urban Renewal

James Street

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems,

not just wait for them to take place.

~ Nong Duc Manh

More interpretations at Our World Tuesday.

Triangle

Yellow Crocus

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

~ Woody Allen

More interpretations of #65 *triangle* at PicStory.

Door Behind the Iron Gate

Skaneateles NY

A gentle word opens an iron gate.
--Bulgarian Proverb

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors.

Blue Feathers

Himalayan Monal

Rosamond Gifford Zoo

I realized that If I had to choose,

I would rather have birds than airplanes.
~ Charles Lindbergh

More interpretations for Blue Monday.

Praying Mantis

Falcon Park

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

~ John Lubbock

More interpretations at SOOC Sunday.

Rose

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

~ Leo Buscaglia

More interpretations of Rose at See It Sunday.

Plain

Church of the Good Shepherd

Beauty is less important than quality.

~ Eugene Ormandy

More interpretations of Plain at PhotoSunday.

Selected as a Winner in the "Plain" PhotoSunday challenge.
Sunday, August 26, 2012.
Thank you for this honor.

Mountains

Whiteface Mountain

Remove failure as an option

and your chances for success

become infinitely better.

~ Joan Lunden

More interpretations of Mountains at UE’s Photo Challenge.

Great Blue Heron

Cayuga College Trail

Talent develops in quiet,

Character in the torrent of the world.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

More interpretations at The Bird D'Pot.

Orange Sunflower

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

~ Joyce Brothers

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers.
Selected as a Winner for Weekend Flowers #61 - August 24, 2012.
Thank you for this honor.

More orange photos at Orange You Glad It's Friday #1.

More interpretations at Macro Monday.

Great Blue Heron

Cayuga College Trail

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply

because they have perfect faith,

for to have faith is to have wings.

~ J.M. Barrie

More photos of Season 6, Episode 7 at Skywatch Friday.

Beach

Fair Haven State Park

At the beach, life is different.

~ Author Unknow

More interpretations of Theme 34: Beach at Photoblog Challenges.

Tina´s Wordless Wednesday #56

 

More photos at Tina’s Wordless Wednesday.

Boating

Skaneateles Lake

The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.

~ Dom Degnon

More interpretations at Our World Tuesday.

Painted Lady

 Earth Colors

The butterfly counts not months but moments,

and has time enough. 

~Rabindranath Tagore

More interpretations of #64 *my favorite color* at PicStory.

Coleus

 

Flowers are the music of the ground 

From earth's lips spoken without sound. 

~ Edwin Curran

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday2.

Orange Sunflower

If I were a flower.. I would be a sunflower.

To always follow the sun, Turn my back to darkness,

Stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds.

~ Pam Stewart

More interpretations at Macro Monday.

Blue & White Water Bobbers

Skaneateles Lake Swim Area

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

~ Henny Youngman

More interpretations for Blue Monday.

Black-eyed Susan

Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!

~ Mehmet Murat ildan

More interpretations at Mellow Yellow Monday.

Skaneateles Lake Pier

We fell in love at the pier

~ Blondie

More interpretations at SOOC Sunday.

Black-eyed Susan

How did that bug get in the photo?

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

More interpretations at Today's Flowers #208.

More interpretations of Summer flowers at KApix.

Invisible

Great Blue Heron Over Lake Champlain

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

~ Roland Barthes

More interpretations of Invisible at See It Sunday.

Summer Vacation

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining,

the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing,

and the lawn mower is broken.
~ James Dent

More interpretations of Summer Vacation at PhotoSunday.

Harbor

Salem Massachusetts

More interpretations of Harbor at UE’s Photo Challenge.

Phlox

I must have flowers, always, and always.
~ Claude Money

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers.

White Admiral

 On Black-eyed Susan

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

Skaneateles Lake

 Skaneateles Classic Boat Show 2012

When we have done our best,

we should wait the result in peace.-

~ John Lubbock

More photos of Season 6, Episode 6 at Skywatch Friday.

Statue

Put your heart, mind and soul into even your smallest acts.

This is the secret of success.

~ Sivananda Saraswati

More interpretations of Theme 33: Begins with “S” at Photoblog Challenges.

Tina´s Wordless Wednesday #55

More photos at Tina’s Wordless Wednesday.

Pay Phone

... an old pay phone it rings like all through the daylight.
~ Matt and Kim

More interpretations of #63 *sooc* at PicStory.

Red Door

An Elizabeth Arden Welcome

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.

~ Elizabeth Arden

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday2.

Doors! #37

St. Mary's

Canadaigua NY

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

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors.

Sunflower & Bee

Light-enchanted sunflower, thou
Who gazest ever true and tender
On the sun's revolving splendour.

~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

More interpretations at Macro Monday.

Blue Awning

Main Street

Canandaigua NY

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont

flows from Main Street, not State Street.

~ James H. Douglas

More interpretations for Blue Monday.

Yellow Brick Building

Canandaigua NY

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

~ Blaise Pascal

More interpretations at Mellow Yellow Monday.

Ontario Country Court House

Wallenda Wantta Bes

Put your heart, mind and soul into even your smallest acts.

This is the secret of success.

~ Sivananda Saraswati

More interpretations at SOOC Sunday.

It's Electric

I didn't know about verses or choruses, we just jammed.

~ Carlos Santana

More interpretations of It's Electric at UE’s Photo Challenge.

Unusual

We're stuck in the heavy Chevy

 ~ Alabama Shakes

More interpretations of Unusual at PhotoSunday.

Hibiscus

There are no foreign lands.

It is the traveler only who is foreign.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers.

More interpretations of Best of 33: 06 Aug - 12 Aug at Photoblog Challenges.

Tina´s Wordless Wednesday #54

More photos at Tina’s Wordless Wednesday.

Knox-Marsellus Marsh

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

~ Mary MacLane

More interpretations at Our World Tuesday.

More photos of Season 6, Episode 5 at Skywatch Friday.

Clearwing Hummingbird Moth

Hemaris thysbe

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame;

Each to his passion; what's in a name?

~ Helen Hunt Jackson

More interpretations of #62 *H* at PicStory.

Tuscan Vegetable Soup

(Red tomatoes were used in the making of this soup.)

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

~ Abraham Maslow

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday2.