November 2010
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The Christmas Tree | Photo of the Day →
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Giving Thanks | Photo of the Day
What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Thanks for being part of my world and for letting me be part of yours.
Photo credit: George Eastman House, McCall’s Magazine Cover 1939
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Filamentous Bloom | Photo of the Day
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. ~Robert Henri
This is a photo of a Filamentous Bloom near Fiji. Taken from space, this photo from NASA’s Earth Observatory website shows bacteria and plankton, probably Trichodesmium, that “merge into great chains and mats that can be detected by satellites hundreds of miles...
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La Mort de L'automne | Photo of the Day
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Clouds and Stars | Photo of the Day
Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ~Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, 1508
Go use your brain today, would ya?
Photo Courtesy: Smithsonian
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Girl and Dog Fishing | Photo of the Day
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
I love this photo. So much is going on and nothing is going on. I think this is the type of photo that reflects the person viewing it; the thought we give to it is personal. We draw from our own life to create a caption.
Perhaps it’s a thought filled...
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Dancing | Photo of the Day
How can we know the dancer from the dance? ~William Butler Yeats
Photo taken circa 1887 courtesy of George Eastman House.
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Leaves of Memory | Photo of the Day
The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I took this shot yesterday with my iPhone. This time of year there are leaves piled in the gutters along the side of the street, hundreds of piles, waiting to be picked up by city leaf trucks.
People throw all kinds of things in those piles:
old, dead, potted plants;
leftover, rotten,...
Sweet Nothings | A poem →
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Women Fighting | Photo of the Day
It is because of men that women dislike one another. ~Jean de La Bruyère, Characters, 1688
Photo from: Powerhouse Museum Collection
This makes me giggle.