Hoopes Park

Horatio

Reality is hard.
It is no walk in the park,
this thing called Life.
- Patty Duke

More interpretations at Tina’s “a piece of heaven” #83.

Signs of the Times

Sign O the Times mess with your mind
Hurry before it's 2 late

- Prince

Shared for Thematic Photographic 254 - Signs of the times, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc. 

More interpretations at signs, signs.

More interpretations of Best of 32: 29 Jul - 04 Aug at Photoblog Challenges.

Stigma

White Asiatic Lily

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.
- Philip Guedalla

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Exit

Dental Office

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit
at the appropriate time.
- Malcolm Muggeridge

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday 2.

More interpretations Theme 31: Street Photography at Photoblog Challenges.

Blue Accented Front Door

Genesee Street

Every doorway, ... has a story.
- Katherine Dunn

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Mallard Ducklings

Hoopes Park

 

Juvenvile Bald Eagle

Van Dyne Spoor Road

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

Ken Blanchard

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Wingtip Shadows

Twelve-spotted Skimmer

Libellula pulchella

... joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

- Buddha

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Evening Primose

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening,

but this wasn't it.

- Groucho Marx

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #257.

Carnival

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

- Victor Hugo

 

More interpretations of Carnival at Photo Sunday.

Memorial Mural

Dr. Samuel V. Kennedy III

Emeritus Professor

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More interpretations at Memorial Wall.

Sheep

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

- Jess C. Scott

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

Orange In Progress

Some of the greatest moments in life

come from moments that are incomplete.

- Nikki Reed

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

Van Dyne Spoor Road

Montezuma Wildlife Refuge

The sky is the limit.
You never have the same experience twice.
- Frank McCourt

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday - Season 7, Episode 3.

Coreopsis

South Spring Pool

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, ...
- Andre Gide

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers #109. 

Ice

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer.

The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

- Henry David Thoreau

More interpretations Theme 30: Ice at Photoblog Challenges.

Blurry Bandstand

It's got a good beat and you can dance to it.

- American Bandstand

Shared for Thematic Photographic 253 - Blurred Vision, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.

A Lesson Posted On the Back Window

I am not a prophet.

- Jose Saramago

More interpretations at signs, signs.

Rt. 90

Grazing in the Grass

- Philemon Hou

More interpretations at Tina’s “a piece of heaven” #82.

Red Door

Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church

…if you go to a strange city,

you can readily identify the Episcopal Church

as the one with the red doors.

–Mark Emory Graham

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday 2.

More interpretations of Best of 31: 22 Jul - 28 Jul at Photoblog Challenges.

Green Grapes

... fruit of the vine,

- Tom Paxton

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church

To appreciate present conditions,

collate them with those of antiquity.

- Basil Bunting

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Song Sparrow

South Spring Pool

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
- Victor Hugo

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Bee

Shadow dancing , baby you do it right 

- The Bee Gees

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

You're Out!

Front End of Double Play

It ain't like football.

You can't make up no trick plays.

- Yogi Berra

More interpretations of Fail at Photo Sunday.

'Astra Blue'

Balloon Flower

Platycodon grandiflorus

Nobody can be un-cheered with a balloon.

- Winnie the Pooh

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #256.

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Monster Clean-Up

Casey Park

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

- Frank Lane

More interpretations at Lake Monster.

Dragonfly

Widow Skimmer

Nature ... invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,

and take an insect view of its plain.

- Henry David Thoreau

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

More interpretations of Best of 30: 15 Jul - 21 Jul at Photoblog Challenges.

Sailing

Lake Champlain

When I'm sailing
All caught up in the reverie, every word is a symphony

- Christopher Cross

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday - Season 7, Episode 2.

Woman in the Orange Dress

And the way you like to dress

- Amy Winehouse

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

Orange Daylily

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom.

They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.

- Jim Carrey

More interpretations at Weekend Flowers #108.

Wolf Tree

Cayuga College Trail

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

More interpretations Theme 29: Tree at Photoblog Challenges.

Play Ball!

Leo Pinckney Field at Falcon Park

Take me out to the ball game

- Albert Von Tilzer

More interpretations at signs, signs.

Summertime

One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing

- George Gershwin

More interpretations at Tina’s “a piece of heaven” #81.

Storm Clouds

Black crows circling up above...

A storm is gonna come

- Piers Faccini

Shared for Thematic Photographic 252 - Cloudspotting, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.

Calla lily

Zantedeschia aethiopica

No poet could write again,
"the red-lily,
a girl's laugh caught in a kiss;"

- Hilda Doolittle 

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday 2.

Driving Close

 

And my car back then, a Studebaker as I recall, was powered, as are most of all means of transportation and other machinery today, and electric power plants and furnaces, by the most abused, addictive, and destructive drugs of all: fossil fuels. - Kurt Vonnegut

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Empty Cases

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

- Jonathan Swift

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Blur Blue

Arterial West - Morning Walk

(This fellow flashed bye before the camera was ready.)

 

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
- Arnold J. Toynbee

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Red-Headed Woodpecker

Mays Point

Even the lonely woodpecker owes his success

to the fact that he uses his head.
- Joe Marcucci

Killdeer

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Coreopsis Shadow

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

- Aesop

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Busker

My purpose in performing

is to communicate the joy

I experience in living.

- John Denver

More interpretations of Entertaining at Photo Sunday.

Dahlia

Just living is not enough.

One must have sunshine, freedom,

and a little flower.

Hans Christian Andersen

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #255.

Republicans raise dahlias, Dalmatians, and eyebrows. Democrats raise Airedales, kids and taxes. - Will Stanton - See more at: http://quoteaway.com/quotes-about/dahlia.html#sthash.F7Frz4fO.dpuf

Republicans raise dahlias, Dalmatians, and eyebrows. Democrats raise Airedales, kids and taxes. - Will Stanton - See more at: http://quoteaway.com/quotes-about/dahlia.html#sthash.F7Frz4fO.dpuf

Straight from Francis Lake

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

- Georges Simenon

More interpretations at Straight from a Summery Lake.

Sign of the Times

It's a sign of the times
And a year ago I never could have seen it

- Petula Clark

More interpretations at signs, signs.

Rt. 89

And it's all open road
Just trying to find a home
- Matthew Mayfield

More interpretations at Tina’s “a piece of heaven” #80.

Siri

Asian Elephant

Rosamond Gifford Zoo

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
- Groucho Marx

More interpretations Theme 28: Begins with “E” at Photoblog Challenges.

Budding Out

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

- Oscar Wilde

Shared for Thematic Photographic 251 - Grown, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.