Monday, August 31, 2015

Ruby Meadowhawk

Perrine Street Garden
Always maintain a kind of summer..
- Henry David Thoreau 

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

More interpretations at I Heart Marco.

Blue Flag

Utica - NYS Thruway Exit

Excelsior (Ever Upward)
- New York' State's official motto

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Cabbage White Butterfly

Pieris rapae

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Osprey

Harris Park

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

More interpretations of Pair at Photo Sunday.

Ruby Meadowhawk

Perrine Street Garden

Always maintain a kind of summer..
- Henry David Thoreau

More interpretations at Straight Out of the Camera.

Sweet Pea

Lathyrus odoratus

Oh Sweet Pea, come on and dance with me
- Tommy Roe

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #361.

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Around the Garden

Eastern Carpenter Bee
Monarch Butterfly
Cabbage White Butterfly

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
- Hanna Rion

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

More interpretations at Saturday’s Critter’s.

Friday, August 28, 2015

Hyacinth Bean Vine

Lablab purpureus

Fee, fa, fie, fo, fum,
I smell the breath of an Englishman.
- The Giant

More interpretations at Floral Friday Fotos.

More interpretations at Friday Greens.

Francis Lake

These cloudy days are coming to an end
- The Eagles

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday.

Urban Deer Fence

Fellows Avenue

Property is a nuisance.
- Paul Erdos

More interpretations at Good Fences.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Seat

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
-- Elizabeth I

More interpretations at Thursday Challenge.

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

G is for Greyhound

Peaches 

Fast as the hare runs, the greyhound outruns her ... 
- Proverb

More interpretations at ABC Wednesday.

Northern Flicker

Hoopes Park 

Life is not a flicker of a candle, 
but a splendid torch that I have taken hold of for the moment. 
- Author Unknown

More interpretations at Wild Bird Wednesday.

Mosher Dam

Lawyers are like beavers:
They get in the mainstream and dam it up.
- John Naisbatt

More interpretations at Wednesday Waters.

More interpretations at Water World Wednesday.

More interpretations at Outdoor Wednesday.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Francis Lake

I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery ...
- Matt Lanter

More interpretations at Our World Tuesday.

Red Nose

Founders Day Car Show

I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat
- Tweety

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Monday, August 24, 2015

American Pelecinid Wasp

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
- Pope Paul VI

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

More interpretations at I Heart Marco.

Blue Sailboat Cover

Skaneateles Lake

Sail away with me
- David Gray

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Sunshine Sunflower

Sunshine came softly ...
Could've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my ways
- Donovan

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Shotwell Park

Skaneateles NY

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
- Henry Ward Beecher

More interpretations at Straight Out of the Camera.

More interpretations of Monument at Photo Sunday.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Hyacinth Bean Vine

Seymour Library

... a very, very unusual species.
- Richard Dawkins

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #360.

Critters Seen Around Town This Past Week

Northern Flicker
Hoopes Park
Orb Weaver
Perrine Street Garden
Widow Skimmer Dragonfly
Otisco Lake Park
Clouded Sulphur
Cayuga College Trail
Fritillary
Cayuga College Trail 

Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door. 
- John P. Mascotte 

More interpretations at Camera Critters. 

More interpretations at Saturday’s Critters.

Friday, August 21, 2015

Car Window Sticker

Green Shutters Parking Lot

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.
- Anna Maria Chavez

More interpretations at signs, signs.

Widow Skimmer Dragonfly

Otisco Lake Shore

A dragonfly accepts it’s brevity of life
- Ruth O'Neill 

More interpretations at Friday Greens.

Black-eyed Susan

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
- Rumi

More interpretations at Floral Friday Fotos.

Orange Truck

I often conduct interviews in my truck.
- William Shanter 

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

Skaneateles Lake

Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
- Carl Hagelin

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Organized

Seymour Library

Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant

More interpretations at Thursday Challenge.

Blue Fence Too!

Market Street Plaza
Owasco River Outlet

Another view of the Blue Fence.

More interpretations at Good Fences.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Great Silver Heron

Art Walk
Seneca Falls NY

Creativity is the ... Heron within us waiting to fly ...
- Nadia Janice Brown

More interpretations at Straight Out of the Camera.

F is for Fence

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
- John Locke
 
More interpretations at ABC Wednesday.

Chickadee

God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland

More interpretations at Wild Bird Wednesday.

Shotwell Park

...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!
- Captain John Paul Jones

More interpretations at Outdoor Wednesday.

Skaneateles Lake

Sailing takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
- Christopher Cross

More interpretations at Water World Wednesday.

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Otisco Lake Park

A place in the summer sun
- The Cowsills

More interpretations at Outdoor Tuesday.

More interpretations at Wednesday Waters.

Hood Ornament

1935 Ford Tudor 2D Sedan

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
- Alanis Morissette

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Monday, August 17, 2015

Orb Weaver Spider

Araneidae

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte:
"Silk is terrific!"
- Cheryl Hayashi

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

More interpretations at I Heart Marco

Blue Fence

Owasco Outlet Overview

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
- John Locke

Another view of the Blue Fence.

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Dusk

Cayuga Lake

There is only one day left, always starting over:
it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

More interpretations of Dusk at Photo Sunday.

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