Wood Duck

Muckrace Flats

The house on the edge of the serious wood
Was aware, was aware
Of why he came there....

- Philip Larkin

 

More interpretations at Thursday Challenge.

P is for Pansy

I pray, what flowers are these?

The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.

- George Chapman

More interpretations at ABC Wednesday.

Tree Swallows

Martens Tract

For one swallow does not make a summer, ...
- Aristotle

More interpretations at signs, signs.

More interpretations at Wild Bird Wednesday.

Flood Control

Mays Point

Clyde River

You cannot step into the same river twice.

- Heraclitus

More interpretations at Outdoor Wednesday.

Mute Swan

Fair Haven State Park

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

- Heinrich Heine

More interpretations at Water World Wednesday.

Driftwood

Lake Ontario

West Barrier Bar County Park

And fast I gather, bit by bit.

The scattered driftwood, bleached and dry.

- Celia Thaxter

More interpretations at Wednesday Waters.

Glasshouse

Main Street Trading Co.
Macedon NY

We are in an electronic technology age now

and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

- Monica Edwards

More interpretations at in a garden.... 

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Painted Turtle

West Barrier Bar County Park

Lake Ontario

Behold the turtle.

He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

– James Bryant Conant

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Blue Boat

Auburn-Fleming Trail

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

- Werner Herzog

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Trumpeter Swan

Muckrace Flats

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 Rather B Birdin’.

Mural

East Genesee Street

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

- Kevin James

More interpretations of Mural at Photo Sunday.

South Spring Pool

Let your hook be always cast.

In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

– Ovid

More interpretations at Straight Out of the Camera.

Spring Garden Flowers

Grape Hyacinth

That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.

- Omar Khayyam

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #343.

Horse

Woodside View Stables

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
- Saint Augustine

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

More interpretations at Saturday’s Critter’s.

Owaso Lake Inlet

Owasco Lake Nature Reserve

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness.

- Samuel Johnson

More interpretations at In the stable.

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday.

Orange Kite

Owasco Lake

I can't change the direction of the wind,

but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

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

House Sparrow

Feeding Young

Seneca Meadows Wetlands Preserve

We never know the love of a parent

till we become parents ourselves.

- Henry Ward Beecher

More interpretations at Thursday Challenge.

My Workplace

 The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

- Abe Lemons

Shared for Thematic Photographic 334 - Where you work, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.

Oswego Harbor Lighthouse

July

February

Lake Ontario

... the Opry is always there to serve

as a lighthouse for what country music really is. 

- Dierks Bentley

More interpretations at ABC Wednesday.

Skunk Cabbage

Owasco Flats Nature Reserve

Grounds where plum and cabbage grew,

- William Butler Yeats

More interpretations at Outdoor Wednesday.

Wind Surfer

Owasco Lake
Photographed from Emerson Park

People come and go, but the waves keep rolling.
- Author Unknown

More interpretations at Our World Tuesday. 

More interpretations at Wednesday Waters.

 More interpretations at Water World Wednesday.

Caspian Terns

Lake Ontario

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
- Vladimir Nabokov

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

More interpretations at Wild Bird Wednesday.

The Miracle

If every leaf on every tree, could tell a story that would be a miracle

Mother nature does it all for us

But Mona Lisa just keeps on smiling

The wonders of this world go on

The Miracle

Queen

More interpretations at Song-ography.

Railroad Crossing Signal

Flashing

can you spell that wihout any r's

- Author Unknown

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Eastern Comma

Eastern Comma

Cayuga College Trail

Butterfly, baby, well you've got it all

- Jason Mraz

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Cayuga Museum

Cayuga Museum

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.
- Brad Pitt

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Daffodils

1st of 2015

She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”

- A.A. Milne

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #342.

Laburnum

Golden Chain Tree

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

- Thomas Dekker

More interpretations of Chain at Photo Sunday.

Selected as a winner for “Chain”.
Thank you for this Honor.

Birds

Caspian Tern

Fair Haven State Park

Canada Goose on the nest

Owasco Flats Nature Reserve

Tree Swallow

Martens Tract

Red-tail Hawk

MacDonald Road

Song Sparrow

Broadway Rd.

Some people are very competitive in their birding.

Maybe they'll die happy, having seen a thousand species before they die,

but I'll die happy knowing I've spent all that quiet time being present.

- Lynn Thomson

More interpretations at Rather B Birdin’.

The common mudpuppy

Necturus maculosus

Seen this morning at the Owasco Flats Nature Reserve

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud

- James Cavanaugh & Harry Barris

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

More interpretations at Saturday’s Critter’s.

Orange Center

Crocus

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

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

Pier Walking

Owasco Lake

Walking is the best possible exercise.
- Thomas Jefferson

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday - April 16, 2015 Edition.

Butterfly

Eastern Comma
Cayuga College Trail

Butterfly, baby, well you've got it all

- Jason Mraz

More interpretations at Thursday Challenge.

Makeshift Fence

Marion NY

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
- Stephen Covey

More interpretations at Rubbish Tuesday.

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Multiples

Spring Bloomers

I love spring anywhere,

but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.

- Ruth Stout 

Shared for Thematic Photographic 333 - Multiples, hosted by Carmi of Written, Inc.

Ice Out

Owasco Lake

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

- David Lee Roth

More interpretations at Wednesday Waters.

More interpretations at Water World Wednesday.