Monday, November 30, 2015

Blue Stained Glass

Saint George Macedonian Orthodox Church

Each of us is ... a piece of stained glass
in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
- Adrienne Clarkson

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Barn

Hidden Pond Farm 

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
- Matsuo Basho

More interpretations of Barn at Photo Sunday.

Saturday in the Park

And I've been waiting such a long time
For Saturday
Saturday in the park
- Chicago

More interpretations at Straight Out of the Camera.

Thanksgiving Bouquet

Dinner Table Centerpiece

Always keep that happy attitude.
Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
- Earl Nightingale

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #374.

Backyard Bird Feeder

Goldfinch
House Sparrow

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

More interpretations at Saturday’s Critter’s.

More interpretations at Rather B Birdin’.

Friday, November 27, 2015

Hardtop Coupe

1957 Lincoln Premiere

He said, son, you're gonna drive me to drinking
If you don't quit driving that Hot Rod Lincoln
- Charlie Ryan

More interpretations at Thursday Challenge.

Friends Cemetery

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity;
but for that reason it should be most our care to learn it…
– William Penn

More interpretations at Good Fences.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Looking for a Presidential Pardon

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
"thank you," that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

More interpretations at Rather B Birdin’.

More interpretations at Outdoor Wednesday

More interpretations at Wild Bird Wednesday.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

T is for Turkey Vulture

Casey Park

Don't play dead with a vulture.
That's exactly what they want.
- Kevin Nealon

More interpretations at ABC Wednesday.

West Barrier Bar Seawall

Lake Ontario

It's just a job. ...,
waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali

More interpretations at Water World Wednesday
.

Northern Pintail

Auto-Drive
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.
- Paul Ryan

More interpretations at Wednesday Waters.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

1812 B&B

This life at best is but an inn,
- James Howell

More interpretations at Our World Tuesday.

Red ATV

Hunting Camp

Working for an extra Buck on the weekend.
- Author Unknown

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Monday, November 23, 2015

Blue Jay

... is a vocabularized geyser.
- Mark Twain

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

More interpretations at Saturday’s Critter’s.

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Shadow

Look at situations from all angles,
and you will become more open.
- Dalai Lama

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Bachelor Button

You push the button, we do the rest.
- George Eastman

More interpretations of Button at Photo Sunday.

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

Rock Garden

West Barrier Bar County Park

Shun artificial rocks like the plague.
- Henry Sherman Adams

More interpretations at Straight Out of the Camera.

Emerson Park

... a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
- Walt Disney

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #373.

Friday, November 20, 2015

Osage Oranges

Aurora NY

Sherlock: Monkey balls.
Watson: I beg your pardon?
Sherlock: One of the many folk names for the Osage orange.

More interpretations at Friday Greens.

Orange Warnings

I'm not in the business of warning people.
- John Bercow

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

St. James' Episcopal Church

Skaneateles NY

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches
with spire steeples which point as
with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
- Samuel Coleridge

More interpretations at Skywatch Friday.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Maple Leaf

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus

More interpretations at Outdoor Wednesday.

Lake Champlain

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
- Carl Hiaasen

More interpretations at Water World Wednesday.

Eastern Standard Time

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
- Carlos Santana

More interpretations at Wednesday Waters.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Four-legged

If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert,

like a deer coming across the lawn.

- Mike Tyson

 

More interpretations of Four-legged at Photo Sunday.

View from an Adirondack Hunting Camp

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. 
- John James Audubon
 
More interpretations at Straight Out of the Camera.

Sunflower

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #372.

Emerson Park

Often when you think you’re at the end of something,
you’re at the beginning of something else.
- Fred Rogers

More interpretations at Our World Tuesday.

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Friday, November 13, 2015

Orange Hawkweed

I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see ... hawkweed,
than the too-well-tended lawn.
- William Henry Hudson

More interpretations at Friday Greens.

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

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Anniversary Bouquet

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music.
- Roy Harper

More interpretations at Friday Greens.

Kite Flying

Emerson Park Pier

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
- Lauren Bacall
More interpretations at Skywatch Friday.

Curves

1937 Chevy 2 Dr. Sedan

I didn't discover curves;
I only uncovered them.
- Mae West

More interpretations at Thursday Challenge.

Casey Park Fence

If people don't want to come to the ballpark,
how are you going to stop them.
- Yogi Berra

More interpretations at Outdoor Wednesday.


More interpretations at Good Fences.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

R is for Ribbit

Froggie went a courtin'
- Burl Ives

More interpretations at ABC Wednesday.

Ring-billed Gull

Lake Ontario

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.
- Nick Faldo

More interpretations at Water World Wednesday.

More interpretations at Wild Bird Wednesday.

Crashing Waves

Lake Ontario
West Barrier County Park

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, ...
- Mike May

More interpretations at Wednesday Waters.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Red Christmas Garland

Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?
- Charlie Brown

More interpretations at Ruby Tuesday Too.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Autumn Amberwing

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

This dragonfly came up to me. ...,
and I was really examining him, thinking,
How does he see me?
- Ziggy Marley

More interpretations at Marco Monday 2.

Blue Cap Gnome

Cottage Street

Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens,
- Lauren DeStefano

More interpretations at Blue Monday.

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Red Maple

Hoopes Park

Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
Malay proverb  

More interpretations at Shadow Shot Sunday 2.

Burdocks

A Burdock -- clawed my Gown --
Not Burdock's -- blame --
But mine --
- Emily Dickinson
 
More interpretations of Simple at Photo Sunday.

West Barrier Bar County Park

Lake Ontario

It's just a job. ..., waves pound the sand
- Muhammad Ali

More interpretations at Straight Out of the Camera.

American Goldfinch Behind Sunflower

Peek-A-Boo
- A Good Joke

More interpretations at Today’s Flowers #371.

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife preserve operated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, encompassing part of the Montezuma Swamp at the north end of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York State.
Birders looking for a rare visitor, Cinnamon Teal. Did scope this bird but did not get a photo.
Northern Pintail
American Coot
American Wigeon
Canada Geese
Greater Yellowlegs

More interpretations at Camera Critters.

More interpretations at Saturday’s Critter’s.

More interpretations at Rather B Birdin’.

More interpretations at Wild Bird Wednesday.