Thursday, April 30, 2015

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.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

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.

Monday, April 27, 2015

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.

Sunday, April 26, 2015

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.

Saturday, April 25, 2015

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.

Friday, April 24, 2015

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!.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

House Sparrow

Feeding Young

We never know the love of a parent
till we become parents ourselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher

More interpretations at Thursday Challenge.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

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.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

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.

Monday, April 20, 2015

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


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

More interpretations at Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors!

Sunday, April 19, 2015

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’.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

The common mudpuppy

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.

Friday, April 17, 2015

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

Thursday, April 16, 2015

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.

 More interpretations at Good Fences.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

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.