Weekend Reflections

Weekend Reflections is hosted by James each week beginning Friday at 11 AM. It's another wonderful way of opening your eyes to new and different kinds of beauty. Click on the icon and join us! If the icon doesn't work here is the address and you can click on it instead: http://newtowndailyphoto.blogspot.com/


On our one sunny day this week, I went back to the Bird Sanctuary and found these guys soaking up that sunshine!



And then the leafy, watery reflections that I'm so nuts about!!







I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
- John Burroughs

Sky Watch Friday!

Welcome to the world of beautiful skies! Look up and share the beauty! Sky Watch is hosted each week by Klaus and the Sky Watch team of Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me! Click on our new icon and hopefully it will take you to the Sky Watch site (I say hopefully because I've had a little difficulty with the program lately)! But the web address is http://skyley.blogspot.com/ and there you can see beautiful skies from all over the world as well as share yours! Enjoy!






Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus



I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e.e. cummings



It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
Rachel Carson



Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
Rachel Carson



There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
Linda Hogan



A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one.
Douglas Jerrold

Two Story Outhouse and News from Pfizer!!! Plus More Laughs for the Day!

I can't even think of anything to add to this.
Words fail me! This picture is worth 10,000 of them.



Yep!!! This pretty much says it all.

Needs no additional comments!!!

And this just out from Pfizer!

Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one. Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to the names of "cocktails", "highballs" and just a good old-fashioned "stiff drink". Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of:
MOUNT & DO.

Thought for the day: There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them..

Perfectly timed photos!!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much. ~ Walter Lippmann



We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.
~ George Bernard Shaw



If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh



To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
~ Reba McEntire



The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
~ Thomas Carlyle



Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ~ Victor Hugo

ABC Wednesday - S!

Got your thinking caps on? You know what day it is, don't you? It's ABC Wednesday! Well, it may be Tuesday here in the States, but that just gives us a chance to get a Step ahead on showing off what we know about -- are you ready? The S words -- now behave, not all the S words are those bad ones! Anyway, ABC Wednesday is hosted each week by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt and the ABC Team -- Denise, Roger, Jay, Troy, Barb, Gattina and me! So click on the icon, Sign up and Show us what you know about the letter S!

Around here S stands for Sylvia's Shadow in Seattle!



For Sam Schnauzer!



And the Siblings!



S is for Sail boats on the Sound!



Sailing into the Sunset!

That's My World

Look around you! What makes up your world? What do you love about it? What do you hate about it? My World is the place you can share that with others and it is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World Team -- Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me! So click on the icon, sign in and not only share your world but have the opportunity of seeing the world of many others! The least expensive way I know to see the very best of all our worlds.

We finally had some sun, I finally had a car and I headed out to my favorite places and a couple of areas I hadn't been before. I never tire of the places and things that I see in my world these days!



To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson



All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie



Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri



Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Mahatma Gandhi



It's good to shut up sometimes.
Marcel Marceau



Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Chinese Proverb



It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot



And a moon in a blue sky!

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 the day!



Why's Bro. John laying down to pray?
He said laying down put him closer to hell and he was inspired
to pray harder.
Hmm praying AND snoring?

Unclassified Irony

Ah, does make you wonder, huh?