Sunday, August 31, 2014

Morris Dancers

Westcott Street Cultural Fair

In the midst of movement and chaos,
keep stillness inside of you.
- Deepak Chopra

More interpretations of Chaos at Photo Sunday.

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Floral Arrangement for Dining

2104 New York State Fair

Art is a process of ... 
arranging elements that appeal to the emotions...
- Shaquille O'Neal

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #312.

Sand Sculpture

2014 New York State Fair

More interpretations at fine line reflections....

Butterfly

Butterfly House
2014 New York State Fair

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

Friday, August 29, 2014

Orange Mums

If you love a flower, don't pick it.
- OSHO

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

Blue Mt. Lake

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

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday - August 28, 2014 Edition.

More interpretations at Thursday Challenge.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Red-Winged Blackbird

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
- Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE

Shared for Thematic Photographic 307 - Birds of a feather, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc. 

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Right Now

It's time to make a decision
- A Great Big World

More interpretations at Song-ography.

Mail Coach

Adirondack Museum

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night...
- James Farley Post Office

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Monday, August 25, 2014

Privy

Adirondack Museum

All of a sudden we went from the penthouse to the outhouse.
- George Braun

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Bobsled

Adirondack Museum
Blue Mountain NY

Well, it's kind of a winter sport.
- Derice Bannock

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

White Balloon Flower

Platycodon grandiflorus
Adirondack Museum

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon
- Winnie the Pooh

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Trumpet Vine Too!

Adirondack Museum

Plant a trumpet vine and you're sure to have hummingbirds visiting your yard in summer.
- Better Homes & Garden

More interpretations at I Heart Marco.

Trumpet Vine

Blue Mt. Museum

Life is like a trumpet
- if you don't put anything into it, 
you don't get anything out of it.
- William Christopher Handy

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Snow Geese

Emerson Park
Owasco Lake
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was on Owasco Lake this morning participating in the Bassmaster Governor's Challenge.

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Blue Mt. Lake

Go to where the ducks are.
- Jase Robertson

More interpretations at Agave

Window

Adirondack Museum

Look through my window ...
- Mamas & The Papas

More interpretations at UE’s Weekend Challenge.

Flower Box

Lake View Café
Adirondack Museum

No flower is happy in a vase,
- Mehmet Murat ildan

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #311.

Brook Trout

Adirondack Museum

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains.
- Cormac McCarthy

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Chuck Wagon

Adirondack Museum

Come and get her before I throw her out" is the time honored mess call.
- Unknown Cowboy

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

Fourth Lake

Old Forge NY

August is laughing across the sky
Laughing while paddle, canoe and I,
- E. Pauline Johnson

Blue Mt. Lake

Photographed from The Lake View Café
Adirondack Museum
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
- Henry David Thoreau

More interpretations at Good Fences.

More interpretations of Fence at Photo Sunday.

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Sunflower Visitor

American Goldfinch

Visits always give pleasure ...
- Portuguese Proverb

More interpretations at I’d Rather B Birdin’.

Patio Shadow

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
- Ovid

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Sunflower

Keep your face always toward the sunshine
- and shadows will fall behind you. 
- Walt Whitman
 
More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #310.

Water Skier

Owasco Lake

Keep your head above water.
- Proverb

More interpretations at freeway view....

Grasshopper

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.
-- Book of Chan

More interpretations at Camera Critters

More interpretations at I Heart Marco

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Friday, August 15, 2014

Orange-striped Pylons

... old pay phone it rings ...
- Unknown Author

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

Knox-Marsellus Marsh

Poets who know no better rhapsodize about the peace of nature,
but a well-populated marsh is a cacophony.
- Bern Keating

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Wrought Iron Fence

West Genesee Street
Skaneateles NY

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
- Robert Frost

More interpretations at Good Fences.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Presidential Sign

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
- Millard Fillmore

More interpretations at signs, signs.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Try

Get your nails done
Curl your hair
Get your shopping on, ... , max your credit cards
You don't have to choose, buy it all
-Try (Colbie Callait)

More interpretations at Song-ography.

Red Coupe

Cosmans Corner

Little deuce Coupe
You don't know what I got
- The Beach Boys

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Monday, August 11, 2014

1933 Franklin Olympic

 Founders Day 2014

Classic is the standard.
- Yelawolf

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Blue Double-Boiler & Blue Teapot

Flowers...
are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Street Walker

Founders Day

Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives.
- Chris Bangle

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Bricks

Sign on Red Brick Wall

It's a sign of the times
- Petula Clark

More interpretations of Bricks at Photo Sunday.

Saturday, August 9, 2014