Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil Gibran



The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran



Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore



Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Rabindranath Tagore



Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore

Help for Flood Victims in India

I found the following information on the blogsite of my dear friend, Sujatha, at http://blogpourri.blogspot.com/. If you feel you can help in any way, please do. There are so many who are homeless and in need.

Donating Toward Flood Relief in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
Following a prolonged period of drought, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have been ravaged by floods triggered by torrential rain over the past few days. Around 250 people have died and about 2.5 million have been rendered homeless.

Mallika, who reads Blogpourri and often leaves some lovely and thoughtful comments, suggested putting up some information - for those interesting in helping - about aid organizations accepting donations toward flood relief and she provided the following details.

If you live in the United States and would like to help, you can donate online at http://www.aidindia.org/.

If you live in Bangalore (donations could be in cash or in the form of items such as groceries, blankets, medicine), these organizations and contact numbers may be useful:


http://www.sochara.org/

http://www.headstreams.org/


Specifically, the contacts are:

1. Community Health Cell, 85/2, Ist Main, Maruthi Nagara, Madiwala, Bengaluru – 560068 (Contact Persons: Pushpa 9449070223)

2. Janarogya Andolana Karnataka C/o CHC, Madiwala (Contact: Obalesh - 9740524128)


3. Headstreams (contact: Naveen Thomas 9342858056, 080-25200318)

4. Association for India’s Development (AID India) (Contact: Guru – 9845294184; Prasanna – 9916937280

As with all things internet-based, please verify the information and proceed only if you are absolutely comfortable doing so.

New Wine from California

California vintners in the Napa Valley area, which primarily produce Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio wines, have developed a new hybrid grape that acts as an anti-diuretic.

It is expected to reduce the number of trips older people have to make to the bathroom during the night.

The new wine will be marketed as


PINO MORE

I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE



I just could not help it.

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. ~ T. S. Eliot



Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~ Billy Wilder



Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. ~ Joyce Brothers



The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~ Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson



Wisdom outweighs any wealth. ~ Sophocles

ABC Wednesday - L!

Time to practice your alphabet! And, yes, learning can be fun! ABC Wednesday is hosted each week by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt! Click on her name and sign to show us what you know about the letter L!

L is for Lavendar!





And L is for Llama!



And L is for Lily!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ~Abraham Maslow



We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ~Anaïs Nin



The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley



Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman



You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. ~Ruth E. Renkl



You may delay, but time will not. ~Benjamin Franklin



We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. ~George M. Adams

That's My World - Great Falls, Montana

Time once again to share our worlds! That's My World is hosted each week by Klaus, Sandy, Ivar, Wren, Fishing Guy and Louise. Click here to sign up and share yours!

My son has been on vacation this past week in Great Falls, Montana where he was born and grew up. He's recently reconnected with childhood friends and he is having such a great time! The pictures he has sent me have brought back lots of happy memories of those days when Montana was "my world", so I thought I'd share some of his pics as well as some I found on Google.

Great Falls is a city in and the county seat of Cascade County, Montana, United States. The population was 56,690 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the 'Great Falls, Montana Metropolitan Statistical Area', which encompasses all of Cascade County. Great Falls takes its name from the series of waterfalls that the Lewis and Clark Expedition had to portage around, requiring 31 days of arduous labor, in their 1805-06 exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. Two undeveloped parts of their portage route are included within the Great Falls Portage, a National Historic Landmark. The city is home to the C. M. Russell Museum Complex, the University of Great Falls, Giant Springs, the Roe River (world's shortest river), and the Montana School for the Deaf and the Blind, as well as the Great Falls Voyagers minor league baseball (formerly known as the Great Falls White Sox) team. The local newspaper is the Great Falls Tribune. Great Falls is known as the "Electric City" due to the five hydroelectric dams that are in the nearby vicinity along the Missouri River.

Photos courtesy of Big Sky Fishing.Com

This is the Duck Pond in Gibson Park! As a family, we spent many hours here enjoying the beauty, watching the kids play!



Once upon a time, the area around the old Milwaukee Road railroad tracks probably wasn't the nicest area in Great Falls. However, virtually all of the old buildings have now been very nicely restored. This is one of those buildings - which is just a stones throw away from downtown and the Great Falls Convention Center. This building used to be the old Great Northern Railroad Depot. It currently houses a number of offices for the local gas company.



The Missouri River and another restored tower in the background!



The Missouri River just downstream from downtown Great Falls.



This was our home in Great Falls.



And one of the best features -- for a family with four kids -- was a BIG backyard!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Kahlil Gibran



Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran



Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil Gibran



Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Kahlil Gibran



You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran



Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman

Pet Pride

Hey there my four legged (for the most part) friends, it's time to meet up with Bozo from Mumbai and show just how terrific we are -- just in case anyone has any doubts!
Click here to sign up and join the fun each week!

Doesn't this look just like Mojo? It isn't but I got Mom to post it just cause it's such a dopey looking photo and I'm tired of hearing everyone swoon over Mojo!!



Ok, ok, so that was kind of mean -- here's the real Mojo meditating in the sun in the kitchen.



I didn't want anymore photos of me on Pet Pride until my beard had grown out a little more, but Mom said that was being a wuss! Well, I'm surely NOT a wuss!



OK! Sam has finally gone back downstairs to pout and I can get back to work guarding the house while my Dad is out of town. I'll be so glad when he gets back! Just don't know why he has to go away so often and leave me to take care of things! After all I'm the only one qualified around here to be a guard dog!!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran



A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran



Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Kahlil Gibran


All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil Gibran



An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Kahlil Gibran

Shadow Shot Sunday!

Time to show your shadows all you shadow sleuths! Shadow Shot is hosted each week by Tracy at Hey Harriet! Click here to sign up and share your shadow shots!

Summer is over and here in the northwest we're seeing less sunshine so you do have to be ready to shoot when you catch a shadow.

Here is a leafy reminder of summer! Click on any of the shots to embiggen and see them better.



A last look at our deck furniture that will spend the winter in the garage!





We had some really brilliant sun for a few hours earlier this week and I found my favorite color shots were deeper and more colorful even than last week -- so of course, I had to include them!



And then I was surprised to find this golden splash on the wall in our living room and I caught a golden sunrise shadow this morning!