Jim's Lily

Asiatic Lily

The lily ... in her fair face striving for precedence.

- Nathaniel Parker Willis

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #253.

Straight Out of Making City Art

Downtown Auburn NY

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
- Erica Segal

More interpretations at Straight Out of the Alfalfa Field.

House Sparrow (Junvenile)

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.

- Evita Peron

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Shadow Bug

Cicada

Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
- E.O. Wilson

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Zoo

Humboldt Penguin

Rosamond Gifford Zoo

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.

- Joe Moore

More interpretations of Zoo at Photo Sunday. 

White Petals

Hibiscus

If everything isn't black and white,
I say, 'Why the hell not?'
- John Wayne

More interpretations Theme 26: White Petals at Photoblog Challenges.

Hoopes Park

Think of all the beauty still left around you and

Be Happy.

- Anne Frank

More interpretations at Tina’s “a piece of heaven” #78.

Red Shutters

Holiday House

To me, life is... you open the shutters,

- Jean Claude Van Damme

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday 2.

June Plantings

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?

- English nursery rhyme

More interpretations at Tina’s PicStory #101.

Every 17 years...

Cicada

Highland NY

Again your voice, cicada ...
... as suddenly as it began
suddenly ceases.

- Ouyang Hsiu

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

More interpretations of Best of 27: 24 Jun-30 June at Photoblog Challenges .

Sullivan Block

Main Street

Phelps NY

People change, things change, time changes, priorities change,

but expectations always remain the same.

 - Unknown Author

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Blue Demin-Clad Dog Trainer

Super 8 Parking Lot

Highland NY

Dogs travel hundreds of miles during their lifetime

responding to such commands as "come" and "fetch."

- Stephen Baker

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Catalpa Tree Blossom

Fellows Street

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine,
and man cannot live without love.
- Max Muller

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #252.

House Wren

Lori's Backyard

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die,

life is like a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

- Chinese Fortune Cookie

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin.

Shadow Daisy

State Street

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... 

~Susan Polis Shutz

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Dry Sunflower

If couples who are in love are called ‘love birds’,

then couples who always argue should be called ‘angry birds.’
- Author Unknown

More interpretations of Dry at Photo Sunday.

Straight from a Super 8 Parking Lot.

Cicada

Highland NY

Here was a thing that cried upon a treetop
sucking the shrill wind
To wail it back in a long whistling note ...

- Ouyang Hsiu

More interpretations at Straight from a Melbourne Street.

Nick's Graduation Party

Shutterfly Photo Book

Orange Friday

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

- Emily Dickinson

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

Tschache Pool

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

I feel a dark cloud coming over

- Wyclef Jean

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday - Queen Victoria Edition.

Water Lily

Wealth, the beauty of youth and flowers
are guests for only a few days.
Like the leaves of the water-lily,
they wither and fade and finally die.
- Sri Guru Granth Sahib

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers #104.

Advice

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

- Abraham Lincoln

More interpretations at signs, signs.

Bridges

Your problem is to bridge the gap

which exists between where you are now

and the goal you intend to reach.

- Earl Nightingale

More interpretations Theme 25: Bridges at Photoblog Challenges.

Curvaceous

Auburn Memorial City Hall

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

- Milan Kundera

Shared for Thematic Photographic 248 - Curvaceous, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.

More interpretations of Best of 26: 17 Jun-23 June at Photoblog Challenges.

Tina´s Wordless Wednesday #93

More interpretations at Tina’s Wordless Wednesday #93.

Red Pepper

Tortellini Salad

What the hell is a tortellini?

- Grandpa

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday 2.

Enter at Your Own Risk

Skaneateles Lake

I walk down a cold dark alley.

- Christine

More interpretations at Tina’s PicStory #100.

Combination Lock

 

Life is like a combination lock;

your job is to find the numbers, in the right orders,

so you can have anything you want.

 - Brian Tracy 

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Apartment Door

State Street

This is where we used to live

- Barenaked Ladies

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Blue Flag Iris

Seneca Meadows Wetland Preserve

Each day has a color,

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Common Grackle

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

- Salvador Dali

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Sentimental

Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk
It's still rock and roll to me.

- Billy Joel

More interpretations of Sentimental at Photo Sunday.

Blue Flag Iris

iris versicolor

Seneca Meadows Wetland Preserve

Thou art the Iris, fair among the fairest,
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #251.

Straight-Out-of-the Antique-Shop-Window

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

- E.M. Forster

More interpretations at Straight Out of the Sunrise.

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Dragonfly

It sure is mellow grazin' in the grass

- Friends of Distinction

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

Orange Mooring

Skaneateles Lake

  

People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring

... anymore than they can invent their parents.

- James Baldwin

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

Owasco Lake

The lake ... my landscape, my real world.

- Georges Simenon

 

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday - Roller Coaster Edition.

Peony

A bee

The bee emerging from deep within the peony departs reluctantly   Basho, Matsuo - See more at: http://quotationsbook.com/quote/46742/#sthash.n7N1qTBv.dpuA bee

staggers out

The bee emerging from deep within the peony departs reluctantly   Basho, Matsuo - See more at: http://quotationsbook.com/quote/46742/#sthash.n7N1qTBv.dpufA bstaggers out

of the peony.
- Matsuo Basho

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers #103.

Ernie Davis

1961 Heisman Trophy Winner

I won't tell him he'll be the next Ernie Davis,

because there'll never be another Ernie Davis. 

- Ben Schwartzwalder

More interpretations Theme 24: Men at Photoblog Challenges.

On the Water

The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous.

On the seashore of endless worlds...

- Rabindranath Tagore

Shared for On the Water, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.

Tina´s Wordless Wednesday #92

More interpretations at Tina’s Wordless Wednesday #92.

Red T-shirts

I've always thought of the T-shirt

as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.

- Giorgio Armani

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday 2.

More interpretations of Best of 24: 10 Jun-16 June at Photoblog Challenges.

Liquid

Boquet River

Wadhams, NY

And let their liquid siftings fall

- T.S. Eliot

More interpretations at Tina’s PicStory #99.

Bearded Iris

The flower offered of itself
In languages of rainbows
And secret silence...
~ Phillip Pulfrey

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Composite

First Niagara Bank

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.
- Stephen Covey

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Blue Urn

 Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Horatio

Great Blue Heron

Summer Resident of Hoopes Park

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Blooming Shadow

Farmboy Graphics

Bloom where you are planted.

- Mary Engelbreit

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.