That's My World - Our Deck

Time to share our worlds! This marvelous meme is hosted each week by Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Ivar, Fishing Guy and Louise! Click here to find the directions for signing up and then share your world with us.



A big part of my world is here, where I spend so much time during the spring and summer particularly. It's where I find the marvelous skies and clouds that are such fun to photograph. It's a great place to read, write, enjoy a meal and enjoy the sun!



And these are a few of the beautiful things to see in my world, from here on the deck!



Beautiful skies -- summer, spring and .....



winter!



A tulip tree!



Lilacs!



The moon!



And the best place to spend time with friends -- including the four-legged ones!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.



Love: We think about it, sing about it, dream about it,loose sleep worrying about it. When we don't know we have it, we search for it. When we discover it, we don't know what to do with it. When we have it, we fear loosing it. It is the constant source of pleasure and pain. But we don't know which it will be from one moment to the next. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define and impossible to live without.



I am nothing special of this I am sure. I am just a common woman with common thoughts. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, that has always been enough.



I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.

Pet Pride

Hey, wings, paws, hoofs and cat claws! Come join Bozo and the rest of us on Pet Pride to show some more reasons why we are so important to our human friends. Click here to sign up and bark, neigh, meow, cackle, moo -- whatever, you get the picture!

Here I am, taking a nap in my favorite chair -- I look pretty dignified as far a nap pose goes, don't you think?



Well, check out Mojo, the show off, and how she takes a nap!!!





I was just so disgusted with all the attention she was getting that I just got up and left the room!!



Where did I leave my cigar????

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.



Love means to love that which is unlovable,
or it is no virtue at all;
forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable,
or it is no virtue at all;
faith means believing the unbelievable,
or it is no virtue at all;
And to hope means hoping when things are hopeless,
or it is no virtue at all.
G.K. Chesterton.




Kindness in words creates confidence,
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness,
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tze.



The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G. K. Chesterton



Love unexpressed is a crime against the heart.

Shadow Shot Sunday!

Hey, have you become a shadow hunter yet? If not you're missing a whole bunch of fun! Shadow Shot Sunday is hosted each week by Hey Harriet! Click on her name to sign up and start looking for shadows to share!



My shadow passion has become colored shadows and I love this ruby red vase, but another fun thing was discovering the reflections in the window as well!



The next two were taken on our deck -- where I spend so much time during the spring and summer. One of my favorite places!





And the last one is shadows in the sand at my favorite beach!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.



Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu



Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says 'For the woman I love' and the second, 'For my best friend.'



A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Thoreau

A Chuckle or Two for the Morning

Questions and Answers from AARP Forum

Q: Where can men over the age of 60 find younger, sexy women who are interested in them?

A: Try a bookstore, under fiction.

Q: What can a man do while his wife is going through menopause?

A: Keep busy. If you're handy with tools, you can finish the basement. When you're done you'll have a place to live.

Q: Someone has told me that menopause is mentioned in the bible. Is that true? Where can it be found?

A: Yes. Matthew 14:92: "And Mary rode Joseph's ass all the way to Egypt .."

Q: How can you increase the heart rate of your 60-plus year old husband?

A: Tell him you're pregnant.

Q: How can you avoid that terrible curse of the elderly wrinkles?

A: Take off your glasses.

Q: Seriously! What can I do for these Crow's feet and all those wrinkles on my face?

A: Go braless. It will usually pull them out.

Q: Why should 60-plus year old people use valet parking?

A: Valets don't forget where they park your car.

Q: Is it common for 60-plus year olds to have problems with short term memory storage?

A: Storing memory is not a problem, Retrieving it is the problem.

Q: As people age, do they sleep More soundly?

A: Yes, but usually in the afternoon.

Q: Where should 60-plus year olds look for eye glasses?

A: On their foreheads.

Q: What is the most common remark made by 60-plus year olds when they enter antique stores?

A: "Gosh, I remember these!"

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship
and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual
affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it
will not be created for years or even generations.
~ Khalil Gibran ~



We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.



Never say goodbye when you still want to try.
Never give up when you still feel you can take it.
Never say you don't love a person when you can't let go.
~ Dons ~



Love me for a reason, let the reason be love.

Sky Watch Friday!

Time once again to share your lovely skies! Marvelously hosted each week by Klaus, Sandy, Ivar, Wren, Fishing Guy and Louise, Sky Watch is the place to see beautiful skies from all over the world. Click here to sign up and share yours!



I'm sure that some of you must think that I run around with my head in the clouds all the time because most of my shots are of the magnificent ones we have here in Seattle and I have such a perfect view from our deck! BUT! just to prove that I do sometimes look around me instead of up I'm posting these first two taken at two of the parks near the harbor. This first one was on a clear, gorgeous August morning with not a cloud in the sky!



This one was taken at a small park just above the harbor, there were clouds, but they were lovely as always!



And then I was looking up again and, as always, wasn't disappointed!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
Jamie Paolinetti



I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Rabindranath Tagore



Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.



Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran



Kahlil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

A Smile for Your Day!

I hope you will enjoy. Have a great day!
These classified ads actually ran in a Minneapolis newspaper - a smile for your day...

FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER .
8-years old.. Hateful little bastard. Bites!

FREE PUPPIES:
1/2 Cocker Spaniel, 1/2 sneaky neighbor's dog.

FREE PUPPIES..
Mother, AKC German Shepherd.
Father, Super Dog..able to leap tall fences in a single bound.

FOUND DIRTY WHITE DOG.
Looks like a rat. Been out a while.
Better be a big reward.

COWS, CALVES: NEVER BRED.
Also 1 gay bull for sale.

NORDIC TRACK
$300 Hardly used, call Chubby.

GEORGIA PEACHES
California grown - 89 cents/lb.

JOINING NUDIST COLONY!
Must sell washer and dryer $300.

WEDDING DRESS FOR SALE .
Worn once by mistake. Call Stephanie.

And the best one?:

FOR SALE BY OWNER:
Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica, 45 volumes. Excellent condition. $1,000 or best offer. No longer needed, Got married last month. Wife knows everything.

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore



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





Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil Gibran



The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.
Rabindranath Tagore

ABC Wednesday --F!

Time for a look at the alphabet! It's ABC Wednesday and today is the F word -- nothing naughty implied, you understand! Hosted by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt, ABC Wednesday is fun way to explore the alphabet! So, click on her name, sign up and play with us and words!

F is for Fall! And it is getting closer by the day!



F is for Flowers and all the beauty they bring into our lives!



And F is for Falls -- water falls!



And last but by no means least, F is for Flight!