Evening, Wisdom and Beauty and Gratitude!

I can't begin to tell all of your how much I appreciated the outpouring of support for Adam and I! What wonderful, supportive friends you are! He's doing great! Went back to work and this weekend he's checking out a piece of property he hopes to purchase in Eastern Washington. It was a tough few days, but they (doctors) seem to have gotten the problem under control. My love and gratitude to each of you. Have a great weekend!



Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~Ambrose Bierce



Madame Earth,
coming out
of a wet
and cold winter.
Bare bone branches
and white outfits
sometimes
dripping
with joy
on sighting
a weak winter Sun.

Then,
Seasonal departures
of the
Cold and Bare;
and
she enjoys the
arrival of
a time of birth,
Spring.

Bursting high
into blossom,
greening
the Bare,
High Kicks
from Madam Earth
in her pink and green
Head costume,
celebrating
Folies Bergere
beneath an audience
of wispy clouds
applauding
in a Blue Sky....
Posted by Ugich Konitari to Sylvia From Over The Hill at March 5, 2010 7:36 PM

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty



There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. ~Ansel Adams



The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin



Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov



Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Don't Mess With Old Broads Uh, Mature Ladies That Is

A mature lady gets pulled over for speeding...

Older Woman: Is there a problem, Officer?

Traffic Cop: Yes ma'am, I'm afraid you were speeding.

Older Woman: Oh, I see.

Traffic Cop: Can I see your license please?

Older Woman: Well, I would give it to you but I don't have one.

Traffic Cop: Don't have one?

Older Woman: No. I lost it 4 ye ar s ago for drunk driving.

Traffic Cop: I see...Can I see your vehicle registration papers please.

Older Woman: I can't do that.

Traffic Cop: Why not?

Older Woman: I stole this car.

Traffic Cop: Stole it?

Older Woman: Yes, and I killed and hacked up the owner.

Traffic Cop: You what!?

Older Woman: His body parts are in plastic bags in the trunk if you want to see

The traffic cop looks at the woman and slowly backs away to his car while calling for back up. Within minutes 5 police cars circle the car. A senior officer slowly approaches the car, clasping his half drawn gun.

Officer 2: Ma'am, could you step out of your vehicle please! The woman steps out of her vehicle.

Older Woman: Is there a problem sir?

Officer 2: My colleague here tells me that you have stolen this car and murdered the owner.

Older Woman: Murdered the owner? Are you serious?!

Officer 2: Yes, could you please open the trunk of your car, please.

The woman opens the trunk, revealing nothing but an empty trunk.

Officer 2: Is this your car, ma'am?

Older Woman: Yes, here are the registration papers.

The traffic cop is quite stunned.

Officer 2: My colleague claims that you do not have a driving license.

The woman digs into her handbag and pulls out a clutch purse and hands it to the officer.

The officer examines the license quizzically.

Officer 2: Thank you ma'am, but I am puzzled, as I was told by my officer here that you didn't have a license, that you stole this car, and that you murdered and hacked up the owner!

Older Woman: Bet the lying bastard told you I was speeding, too.

Don't Mess With Mature Ladies

Sky Watch Friday!

First of all I want to thank all of you so very much for sending your thoughts and prayers for my son, Adam. He is home and is doing better, hopefully he will be make a full recovery over the next few days.


Sky Watch is hosted each week by Klaus and the Sky Watch Team, Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and myself! Click on the icon, sign up and the join the over three hundred fifty people all of the world that share their skies each week!

A few of the beautiful skies I have seen over the past couple of weeks. Poets say it so much better than I ever could.



Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
George Washington Carver



There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
Bern Williams



With each sunrise, we start anew.
- Anonymous



Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun /at sunset/?
Matthew Arnold



It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.
Bern Williams



May I never miss a sunset or rainbow because I am looking down.
Sara June Parker

Hold Good Thoughts

My son, Adam, has had to go to the emergency room for the second time today with a hernia/stomach problem. I do hate feeling so helpless when any of my kids are sick, would appreciate your holding good thoughts for him.

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain



Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson



The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost



There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost



Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin



Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin

Some Humor for the Day!

CURSING IN CHURCH
A crusty old man walks into the local Church and says to
the secretary, 'I would like to join this damn church.'

The astonished woman replies, 'I beg your pardon, sir.
I must have misunderstood you. What did you say?'

'Listen up, damn it. I said I want to join this damn
church!'

'I'm very sorry sir, but that kind of language is
not tolerated in this church.'

The secretary leaves her desk and goes into the
pastor's study to inform him of her situation.
The pastor agrees that the secretary does
not have to listen to that foul language.

They both return to her office and the pastor asks the old
geezer, 'Sir, what seems to be the problem here?'

There is no damn problem,' the man says. 'I just
won $200 million bucks in the damn lottery and I want to join
this damn church to get rid of some of this damn money.

'I see...' said the pastor. 'And is this bitch
giving you a hard time???'



AND THEN THERE'S THE MEMORY PROBLEM!

Jack & Eloise, an elderly couple were invited to some lifelong friends
home for dinner one evening. Eloise was so impressed by the way her
lady friend preceded every request to her husband with endearing
terms such as: Honey, My Love, Darling, Sweetheart, etc.

The couple had been married almost 70 years and clearly, they were
still very much in love. After dinner, while the two husbands were in
the living room chatting, Eloise leaned over to her hostess and said,
'I think it's wonderful that after all these years, you still call your
husband all those loving pet names'.

The elderly lady hung her head and said, 'I have to tell you the
truth, his name slipped my mind about 10 years ago, and I'm scared
to death to ask the cranky old asshole what his name is.



ATTENTION:

ALIENS ARE COMING TO EARTH ON FRIDAY AND THEIR MISSION IS
TO ABDUCT ALL GOOD LOOKING AND SEXY PEOPLE.

YOU WILL BE SAFE , I'M JUST E-MAILING YOU TO SAY GOODBYE.

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. ~
Rabindranath Tagore



You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Robert Frost



Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost



There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost



Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. Eliot



Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
Ogden Nash

ABC - G

Time to play with the alphabet! ABC Wednesday is hosted each week by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt and her team. So grab your dictionary, click on the ABC icon and sign up to play!! And the Letter This Week is G!

G stands for Gardens of all kinds, such as Gorgeous flower Gardens!



G stands for Green Grass!



G stands for Green Glass!



G is for Gray as in Gray Clouds!



G stands for Golden skies!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost



"Second (photo)" thoughts....

Sometimes,
brown and black
lie low,
a troubled surface,
a dig here,
a lump there.

White
appears to thrive,
mixing with
those in the pink
and cream of of Life

Its nobody's world;
the brown and black,
sucking
the rain water
for the roots,
cool down there;
the whites and pinks,
facing a mositure-ous new day
and the green,
opening
up to the world,
as if to say,
"We really can't live without each other,
can we ?"
Posted by Ugich Konitari to Sylvia From Over The Hill at March 1, 2010 8:33 PM

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Robert Frost



I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
Robert Frost



Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran



If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Kahlil Gibran



When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Kahlil Gibran



The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin

That's My World - Black Diamond Coal Mine

That's My World is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World Team, Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and myself. It's a fun opportunity to share the lovely, interesting things that make up your world with others from all over our world! Click on the icon to sign up!



Soon after I moved to Seattle I learned about a place called the Black Diamond Coal Mine. It has a very interesting history and I managed to sign up for a tour of the area. I had just begun to play with my son's camera and this was an opportunity to see what I could capture. It was a fun trip and we had fantastic food at the Black Diamond Bakery/Restaurant which has gained fame for its food/baked goods.

First some history courtesy of Wikipedia. For those of you who live in much older countries around our world, this being considered "history" will probably make you laugh. But we are a very young country and the northwest was one of the later additions still.

Beginning in the 1880s Black Diamond was a rural coal mining area. Eventually a town grew up around the mine and was named in honor of the Black Diamond Coal Company of California, which owned and operated the mine. The town was home to around 3,500 people by the early 1900s, many of them European immigrants; most of the working men were involved in producing coal. This coal was transported to Seattle via the Pacific Coast Coal train.



After World War I, the town shut down the mine as it was no longer viable. However a second mining boom spurred growth in the town in the early 1930s on the strength of multiple mining operations promoted by the Morris brothers through the Palmer Coking Coal Company. Mining has continued until recently through the Pacific Coast Coal Company, formerly of San Francisco. The prospect of future mining operations remains strong.

The town has been home to many famous residents, including folk musician Brandi Carlile (who grew up a few miles east in Ravensdale). The minor-league baseball star Edo Vanni was born at Black Diamond in 1918. This city was put onto the official maps on February 9, 1954, which is considered its birthdate.


The main building of the Black Diamond Historical Museum is the former train station, which served the Columbia & Puget Sound Railway 1884–1916 and the Pacific Coast Railway 1916–1951. According to a sign at the museum, there were originally two trains a day to Seattle, later only one. Regular passenger service ended in 1925, but a train still brought men to the mine until 1931, and trains continued to haul coal and freight into the 1940s.

This was the jail -- how about a night there to sober up!!!



The Black Diamond Bakery achieved regional fame in the 1970s for the quality of its breads and other baked goods, and continues to attract destination shoppers. The town's late 20th century population growth has been mostly as a commuter community for people with jobs in Seattle, Bellevue, and other suburban centers.

Bakery then!


And the bakery/restaurant today!



Rose Hill Cemetery
Although little remains of the coal mining communities, a historic cemetery serves as a monument to the lives of the former residents. Buried here are children who died in epidemics, women who died in childbirth, and men who died in mining disasters and of other things. Although over 10 nationalities resided in the mining area, Rose Hill Cemetery was a protestant burial ground, and many of the people buried here were Welsh.

Over the years, vandalism has taken its toll on the cemetery, which the Park District is attempting to restore.

The two photos of the bakery are courtesy of Wikipedia.

MicroFiction Monday

>Susan at Stony River Farm hosts Microfiction Monday. She posts a picture and you compose a story in 140 characters. You can click on the icon to get further instructions. To help you along she has posted a wonderful link that counts your characters for you! How great is that! You can get the counter at Design 215.

This meme is easy and it's fun! Thanks, Susan for hosting.

And here's the picture for this Microfiction Monday!



What is that in the middle of the road, Moo-di?
A cow pie, silly! The new bull marking his territory!
Bull shit!
Yep, that's what it is!

Sounds About Right to Me!

While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by a
truck and dies.

His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.

"Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."

"No problem, just let me in," says the senator.

"Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity."

"Really, I've made up my mind I want to be in heaven," says the senator.

"I'm sorry, but we have our rules."

And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.

Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.

They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne.

Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go.

Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises ..

The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him.

"Now it's time to visit heaven."

So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.

"Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity."

The senator reflects for a minute, then answers: "Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell."

So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.

Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage.

He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above...

The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. "I don't understand," stammers the senator. "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"

The devil looks at him, smiles and says.......

"Yesterday we were campaigning. Today you voted."

Pet Pride!

Okay guys, get up off your tails and let's head over to Bozo's cool place in Mumbai! It's our turn to show our stuff! Get your human to click on Bozo's pic and sign you up!!

We had some really great weather this past week and I was in such a good mood and Sam was in such a good mood we did a little friendly kissing in the sunshine!
Yeah, and Mom liked that so much she even used the pic on another meme! Are getting famous or what!!



Lots of people have asked how I swim so good so Dad stretched my paws out so you guys could see my webbed feet!! Ha Ha, you know -- old Ducky Mojo!



Pretty cool, huh?



Then all of a sudden Sam started barking and when I looked across the alley who should be climbing the neighbor's fence but that pesky squirrel that's been teasing us lately! I wish I could climb the fence! He wouldn't be teasing for long!!



Well, we hope all you guys are getting some great weather like we are and we'll check in with you next week at Bozo's! See ya!