September 2010
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Rain with the Chance of Possibility →
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The Three Trees | Photo of the Day
This is an etching by Rembrandt done in 1643 titled The Three Trees.
See the post and my thoughts over on Half Board with Lunch.
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Relax | Photo of the Day
What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do - especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ~William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
One Big Pile of Adventure | Thoughts on my Birthday
There is still no cure...
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Seashells | Photo of the Day
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard
When I lived on the coast in Texas, a couple of lifetimes ago, I would go to the beach in the winter and gather seashells; all kinds of amazing designs and colors and shapes.
People gather to the beach in the summer to bask in the sun and frolic in the surf. I would wait. I’d...
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Leaves | Photo of the Day
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
~Robert Frost
I’m really not sure why this picture reminds me of this poem, perhaps I see the gold in the black and white; somewhere in my memory.
Still, what is...
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September | Photo of the Day
By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer’s best of weather
And autumn’s best of cheer.
~Helen Hunt Jackson, September, 1830-1885
Photo Credit: Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands
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Bird | Photo of the Day
The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~John Keats
Yes, those are light blue feathers; a most extraordinarily beautiful bird. I took this picture last weekend at the Bronx Zoo.
I love the birds best, I suppose. There are so many different kinds of birds; colors, shapes, sizes. We look at birds with wonder and envy. We wish we could fly. We wish we could sing. We wish we were colorful. We...
Observation
Anyone else think Freud looks like Teddy KGB?
Gives a whole new meaning to “…lays down a monster”, doesn’t it?
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Signs | Photo of the Day
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. ~Pablo Picasso
I really love this picture. I want to gather all the signs into one, straight row and then spin them around and around until they stop where they will; willy-nilly.
I think we get caught up in the wheres and whats and hows of our occupations (the things that occupy our time, not just our...
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Harvest | Photo of the Day
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ~Douglas William Jerrold
Perspective.
Sometimes what seems like backbreaking/ time consuming/ tedious/ repetitive work is what is needed to get the results you want; you may not want to do it, but it is what is required.
Change the way you think about your work and you change the work itself.
Tickle...
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Napping Camel | Photo of the Day
No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap. ~Carrie Snow
Napping Camel. Bronx Zoo.
Photo Credit: me
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Contemplation | Photo of the Day
Taken by me. Bronx Zoo.
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Packing for Nana's | Photo of the Day
Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag. ~Helen Thomson
In case you were wondering how long it takes to get from Alaska to New Jersey: Around 11 hours by plane including layovers.
What to pack for such a trip?: Oreos, sneakers, boots, CheezIts, a blanket, trucks and various toys.
That should do it.
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Grandma Moses Day | Photo...er..Art of the Day
It’s never too late to be who you might have been. ~George Eliot
I love a good success story.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses didn’t start painting until she was in her 70s. She had been an embroiderer, but because of arthritis she had to abandon that path and begin a new one, painting. Long story/ short, an art collector saw her work in a drugstore window and soon after an art dealer...
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Thoughts on the First Day of School | Parenting...
Eh… I had this whole rant about how we listen to “EXPERTS” tell us how/what/when/why and all about raising children and that we shouldn’t listen to anyone. I deleted it. I’m not going to be like them.
You know what? Just pay attention. You’re going to screw up something, I guarantee it. But if you’re honest with yourself (and your kid) you’ll work...
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Over Your Shoulder | Photo of the Day
Save me the crossword, would ya?
photo courtesy: Nationaal Archief
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Listening for Dandelion Seeds | Photo of the Day
The sea lions bark out in the Sound. You can hear them from here, loudly, if I opened the window. The seagulls are louder. They will fly themselves to where you are, making sure to not be ignored. Spring will come soon, and the birds with better singing voices will pay a visit and cause me to pause during my morning, appreciating the musical undertones of the daily turbulence.
You must peel...
Evening Conversation | My Life
Set up: Wendy Jr is watching some show on an animal channel.
Wendy Jr: I hate to have to pee.
Me: I know, you have always been that way.
Wendy Jr: There are so many things you miss in a lifetime from stopping to go to the bathroom.
Matt: Yes, just think of how much hippo programming you miss.
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Manhattan | Photo of the Day
Wherever human beings have been you see rectangles and straight lines because we are always trying to straighten things out. ~Alan Watts
On the surface, it seems as if we shouldn’t, in fact, create these lines to straighten out our world; the ebb and flow of life always finds its own way. A little deeper thought brings me to the conclusion that, sometimes, without creating order in...
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Cool Kid | Photo of the Day
Happy Birthday to the coolest 3 year old I know. Your mom was cool at your age, but you are cooler times three!!
…and yes, he’s on a real computer using a mouse.
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September 1st | Photo of the Day Bonus
SEPTEMBER 1, 1939
by W.H. Auden
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence...
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Boy w/ Sandwich | Photo of the Day
Too few people understand a really good sandwich. ~James Beard
I don’t have much to add. This photo makes me smile. Happy Wednesday, everybody.