Orange Poppy

I hope some day to meet God,

because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

~Robert Brault

More interpretations at Orange You Glad It’s Friday!.

Maria, thank you for selecting our photo as your favorite for the week.

Arum Pond

 

Howland Island

The Frog does not drink up in the pond in which he lives.

- Unknown Author

 

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday- John Wayne Edition.

Poppy

In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome:

People like to cut the tall poppies.

They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down

- especially people from your own social class.

- Mark Burnett

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers #101.

Doll

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

- Karl Lagerfeld

More interpretations Theme 22: Begins with “D” at Photoblog Challenges.

Tina´s Wordless Wednesday #90

More interpretations at Tina’s Wordless Wednesday #90.

Messiness

America Litters with Dunkin'

There aren't many things that are universally cool,
and it's cool not to litter.
I'd never do it.
~ Matthew McConaughey

Shared for Messiness, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.

More interpretations of Best of 23: 27 May-02 June at Photoblog Challenges.

Red Sash

2013 Memorial Day Parade

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night.

That is glamour!

- Anne Baxter

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday 2.

Red Azalea

And in the woods a fragrance rare...

We see their blossoms sweet and red.

- Dora Read Goodale

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday 2.

More interpretations at Tina’s PicStory #97.

Budding Out

Poppy

Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time passing

- Pete Seeger

More interpretations at Marco Monday.

Fairy House

Huckleberry Swamp

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

- Hans Christian Anderson

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Blue-Shirted Parrothead

Memorial Day Parade 2013

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

- Jimmy Buffett

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Horatio

Hoopes Park

The Great Blue Heron is the largest of the truly American herons,

and is known as a stately, dignified, and interesting bird by those

who have observed it in other ways than over the sights of a shotgun or rifle.

 - George Gladden in the 1936 edition of Birds of America

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Boardwalk Shadow

Huckleberry Swamp

(Under the boardwalk) 

Out of the sun

- The Drifters

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Skillful

Street Musicians

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
- Edward Hopper

 More interpretations of Skillful at Photo Sunday.

Yellow Flag Iris

Iris pseudacorus

And nearer to the river’s trembling edge

There grew broad flag-flowers,

- Shelley

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #248.

Straight from Huckleberry Swamp

Where there are no swamps there are no frogs

~ German Proverb

More interpretations at Straight From Melbourne.

White-throated Sparrow

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

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

More interpretations of Best of 22: 22 May-26 May at Photoblog Challenges.

Orange Pansy

I pray, what flowers are these?
The pansy this,
O, that's for lover's thoughts.

~ George Chapman

More interpretations at Orange You Glad It’s Friday!.

Coot Pond

Howland Island

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
- Saul Bellow

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday - Moore, Oklahoma Edition.

Allium

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers #100.

Congratulations on a marvelous milestone - #100

Cloudy

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

I've looked at clouds that way

- Judy Collins

More interpretations Theme 21: Cloudy at Photoblog Challenges.

Heavenly Delight

Served First

Life is uncertain.  Eat dessert first. 

~Ernestine Ulmer

Shared with Too sweet for words, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.

Tina´s Wordless Wednesday #89

More interpretations at Tina’s Wordless Wednesday #89.

Interesting

Gazebo

Hoopes Park

Brevity is the gazebo of wit.
- William Shakespeare

More interpretations at Tina’s PicStory #96.

Forget-Me-Not

A good character is the best tombstone.

Those who loved you and were helped by you

will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered.

~ Charles H. Spurgeon

More interpretations at Marco Monday.

Phelps Town Hall

Phelps NY

there are times when i consider all the things i've done
and looking back now, i may have been wrong
but i did it my own stubborn way
only way i knew how

- Town Hall

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Bachelor's Button

Centaurea cyanus

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

- Phyllis Diller

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sandhill Crane

Carncross Road

Savannah,  NY

Which is the swan, and which is the crane?

- Sri Guru Granth Sahib

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Owasco Outlet

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

- Andrew Cuomo

More interpretations of Harsh Light at Photo Sunday.

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Purple Tulip

I must have flowers, always, and always.

- Claude Monet 

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #247.

Straight-Out-of-a-Narrow Alley

Phelps NY

Time has lost all meaning
in that nightmare alley of the Western world
known as the American mind.
- Florence King

More interpretations at Straight Out of a Narrow Alley.

Ruff

Coot Pond

Howland Island

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

Orange Kayak

Owasco Outlet

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain

More interpretations at Orange You Glad It’s Friday!.

Coot Pond

Howland Island 

Some think it is bottomless.

- Henry David Thoreau

 

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday Season 6, Episode 45.

Tulip

And tulips, children love to stretch
Their fingers down, to feel in each
Its beauty’s secret nearer.

-  E. B. Browning

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers #99.

Sculpture

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

- David Mallet

More interpretations Theme 20: Sculpture at Photoblog Challenges.

Frozen

Fourth Lake

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
- Andrew Wyeth

Shared for Thematic Photographic 244 - Frozen, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.

Red Tulip

But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names.

They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow,

like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.

- Neil Gaiman

 

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday 2.

Beuatiful Bouquet

Mother's Day Arrangement

I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.
- Bob Hopkins

More interpretations at Tina’s PicStory #95.

Bleeding Heart

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

- Charles Dickens

More interpretations at Marco Monday.

A.T. Walley & Co.

Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.

- Don Johnson

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Blue Hyacinth

A Splash of Blue in the Garden

I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens.
- Lee DeWyze

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Snow Goose

(Blue Morph)

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

What matters
is that, when I saw them,
I saw them

- Mary Oliver

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Happy Mother's Day

Shadow Over Troubled Water

Esker Pond Bridge

 

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind

- Simon and Garfunkel

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Happy Mother's Day

Motion

Wolcott Falls

Never confuse motion with action.

- Benjamin Franklin

More interpretations of Motion at Photo Sunday.

Bleeding Heart

Stacey's Garden

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #246. 

Happy Mother's Day

More interpretations of Best of 18: 06 May-12 May at Photoblog Challenges.

Straight-Out-of-Spring

Esker Pond

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus

More interpretations at Straight Out of Autumn.

Snow Goose

(Blue Morph)

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.

Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

- Laozi

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

Orange Tent

Beechwood State Park

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.
- Mary Leakey

More interpretations at Orange You Glad It’s Friday!