Friday, November 29, 2013

Orange Snowman

For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
- French folk tune

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

Grey Skies

None of them knew the color of the sky.
- Stephen Crane

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday - USA Thanksgiving and Hanukkah Edition.

More interpretations at Dry Ditch.

More interpretations of Best of 49: 25 Nov - 01 Dec at Photoblog Challenges.

Photo Op

Skaneateles Lake

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo,
to suddenly become an international headline.
- Leon Panetta

More interpretations at Tina’s “a piece of heaven” #99.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Safe Harbor Church

Wolcott NY

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
- Willian G.T. Shedd

 More interpretations at InSPIREd Sunday.

Rose Hips

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile
- William Byant

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Realistic

Common Grackle - House Finch - Red-wing Blackbird

More interpretations of Realistic at Photo Sunday.

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Morning Glory

What's the story morning glory?
- Oasis

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #274.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Osage Orange


I've aways been good at picking up certain things, ...
- Channing Tatum

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

More interpretations at Outdoor Games.

Friday, November 22, 2013

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

Auto-Drive Loop

Autumn's the mellow time.
- William Allingham

More interpretations at Tina’s “a piece of heaven” #98.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Rainy

A warning sign
- Coldplay
 
More interpretations Theme 47: Rainy at Photoblog Challenges.

Drink

I never drink coffee at lunch.
I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.
- Ronald Reagan

Shared for Thematic Photographic 269 - Drink, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

House Finch (Male)

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

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Monday, November 18, 2013

St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church


We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Winston Churchill

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Spring Flower Seen in Autumn

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Blue Bike

1950 Girls Hawthorne

Backstory -  Out antiquing last Saturday we came across this beauty in the front yard of a gift shop. Inquired if it was for sale. The answer being yes. We loaded it into the car. Can already see it in our flower garden next Spring.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Faith Assembly of God

Poplar Ridge Road
Aurora NY

There's a place near to me, where I'm longing to be
With my friends at the old country church
- The Oak Ridge Boys

More interpretations at InSPIREd Sunday.

Telephone Pole & Street Sign Shadow

Washington Street

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Champ

The Famed Monster of Lake Champlain

... a rather large dragon-like creature.
-  Joseph Zarzynski

More interpretations of Monster at Photo Sunday.

Wooly Bear Caterpillar

Winter???
Hoopes Park

There's evidence that the number of brown hairs has to do with the age of the caterpillar—in other words, how late it got going in the spring. The band does say something about a heavy winter or an early spring. The only thing is . . . it's telling you about the previous year.
- Mike Peters, an entomologist at the University of Massachusetts

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Red-tailed Hawk

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

I am a deficit hawk.
- Dick Cheney

More interpretations at A River Runs Through It.

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Friday, November 15, 2013

T-Shirt

Words are but the signs of ideas.
- Samuel Johnson

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

More interpretations at signs, signs.

More interpretations of Best of 47: 11 Nov - 17 Nov at Photoblog Challenges.

Sodus Bay Lighthouse

Burn brightly without burning out.
- Richard Biggs

More interpretations at Tina’s “a piece of heaven” #97.

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday - November 14, 2013 Edition.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Dark-eyed Junco

In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence.
- Robert Lynd

More interpretations Theme 46: Birds at Photoblog Challenges.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Bird Cage

... for the caged bird   
sings of freedom.
- Maya Angelou
More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Monday, November 11, 2013

Red Rose

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Blue Kayaks

L.L. Bean

Life's short- paddle hard
- Author Unknown

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Harriet Tubman's Church

Thompson Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church
Auburn NY

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves,
I could have freed thousands more.
- Harriet Tubman

More interpretations at InSPIREd Sunday.

'Past, present and future': Tubman symposium

Junco

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Cattail Shadow

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Boquet River

Wadhams NY

You cannot step into the same river twice.
- Heraclitus

More interpretations of River at Photo Sunday.

Jimson Weed

A weed is but an unloved flower.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #272.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Greater Yellowlegs

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

It could not have come down to us so far,
Through the interstices of things ajar
On the long bead chain of repeated birth,
To be a bird while we are men on earth, 
- Robert Frost

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

A Swan Moment

Mute Swan
Sterling Pond
Fair Haven State Park

It is not for the swan
to teach the eaglet to sing.
- French Proverb

More interpretations at A Swan Moment.

Friday, November 8, 2013

Orange Leaf

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'
- Miranda Leek

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

Sodus Bay Lighthouse

Country music is always changing
but the Opry is always there to serve
as a lighthouse for what country music really is.
- Dierks Bentley

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday - November 7 Edition.

Sennett Rural Cemetery

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in.
Aim at earth and you get neither.
- C. S. Lewis

More interpretations at Tina’s “a piece of heaven” #96.