Shadow Shot Sunday!

Come play with us and the shadows!!

Your hosts are:
Magical Mystical Teacher
Rose (chubskulit)
Gemma Wiseman

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
Emo Philips

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart

Weekend Reflections!

Weekend Reflections is hosted by James each week beginning Friday at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time. It's another wonderful way of opening your eyes to new and different kinds of beauty. Click on the web address under the blog title and sign up to play with us!

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

Friends show their love in times of trouble.
Euripides

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

Sky Watch Friday!!

Time to share your skies, the beauty over your world, the clouds, the colors! Sky Watch is hosted each week by  the Sky Watch team of  Sandy and I. And this week as every week, we remember Klaus and know that he joins us in spirit! Join us and the many people from all over the world who share theirs with us each week!  We had clear and beautiful skies yesterday and I could see Mt. Rainier!! I'm sharing that with you today! Enjoy!

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edward W. Howe

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

The Window Through Which We Look !

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood.

The next morning while they are eating breakfast,
The young woman sees her neighbor hanging the Wash outside.
"That laundry is not very clean", she said.
"She doesn't know how to wash correctly.
Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."

Her husband looked on, but remained silent.
Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry,
The young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a
Nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband:

"Look, she has learned how to wash correctly.
I wonder who taught her this."

The husband said, "I got up early this morning and
Cleaned our windows."

And so it is with life. What we see when watching others
Depends on the purity of the window through which we look!*

I hope each of you has a beautiful day and that you always look and are seen through clean windows.

If you don't understand this now, you will in a few years . . .. When asked by a young patrol officer, "Do you know you were speeding?",  this 83-year-old woman talked herself out of a ticket by responding:   "Yes, but I had to get there before I forgot where the hell I was going."

Evening Wisdom and Beauty

Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Joseph Butler

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is
the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda

PARAPROSDOKIANS: (Winston Churchill loved them.)

A good friend sent this to me last night and I just had to share it with you today! Great chuckles for the day -- and with a fancy name!!!

Here is the definition:

"Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous situation." "Where there's a will, I want to be in it," is a type of paraprosdokian. 

1. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.

3. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.

5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

6. War does not determine who is right — only who is left..

7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

8. Evening news is where they begin with 'Good Evening,' and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

10. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.

11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks.

12. Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'

13. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.

14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.

16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.

17. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

18. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

19. There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.

20. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.

21. You're never too old to learn something stupid.

22. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.

23. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

24. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

25. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

26. Where there's a will, there's relatives.

Our World!!!

Time for "Our World" again! This is a wonderful way to find the beauty, the fun, the good and even the bad things about Our World and to share them! Hope you will join us! Click on the link  to go to the Our World site and sign up!!

http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/ 

 

Over  the past few days I’ve shared some photos from a wonderful exhibition here in Seattle and today I would like to share some more of the really awesome ones that I’m delighted to have as a part of “my world” today!  The Chihuly Garden and Glass is an exhibition that explores the inspiration and influences of Northwest artist, Dale Chihuly. He has pioneered new techniques in art and influenced generations of artists. His creativity and generosity of spirit are easily seen in the beauty of his work. This is a longer post than I usually have, but it was such a special place!! I hope you enjoy the few I’m sharing with you today from “my world”!!

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

Wishing all of you a beautiful and happy week!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

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

Pets Forever!

Hey guys, get up off your tush and lets go see Bozo over at his pad in Mumbai! It's always a fun time when we all get together and talk about what's been happin', Bro! You know? Get your human to click on the Post Title, that'll take them to the website where you can sign up! I'll be waiting for you!!

I thought you said it was summer!!! It's still freezin' outside and I don't have a coat anymore!!  How can I run in the rain and have any fun???

Shadow Shot Sunday!

Come play with us and the shadows!!

Your hosts are:
Magical Mystical Teacher
Rose (chubskulit)
Gemma Wiseman

 As some of you know, I was able to visit  Chiluly Garden and Glass here in Seattle this past week and there were some pretty awesome exhibits and a beautiful place. These are three shots from there. Hope you enjoy!

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell

Don't go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekend Reflections !

Weekend Reflections is hosted by James each week beginning Friday at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time. It's another wonderful way of opening your eyes to new and different kinds of beauty. Click on the web address under the blog title and sign up to play with us!
I had an opportunity to go to the Chihuly Garden and Glass Park which is located next to the Space Needle in downtown Seattle. It was one of the most different, interesting and beautiful places I've ever visited, so I wanted to share some of it with your today.

I would also like to share this with you -- the daughter of my creative friend, Suranga, who designs my fun headers has entered a National Geographic Photo contest and her entry is fantastic! You can see it and vote in less than a minute at this site  Do stop by, you'll be glad that you did!!!  A note! some people are having trouble connecting with the National Geographic site, so Suranga has added the address in her comment below and it does work!!!

 The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton

 The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sky Watch Friday!!

Time to share your skies, the beauty over your world, the clouds, the colors! Sky Watch is hosted each week by  the Sky Watch team of  Sandy and I. And this week as every week, we remember Klaus and know that he joins us in spirit! Join us and the many people from all over the world who share theirs with us each week!  I hope everyone has had a great week and wishing you a beautiful weekend with lots of glorious skies! Enjoy!

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.
William Cowper

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides

Evening Wisdom and Beauty

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle

Great Advice for the Day!

This was simply too much of a time saver not to share it with you.

1. Put both lids of the toilet up.
And add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the water in the bowl.

2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.

3. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close the lid.

You may need to stand on the lid. 4. The cat will self agitate and make ample suds.

Never mind the noises that come from the toilet, the cat is actually enjoying this. 5. Flush the toilet three or four times.
This provides a 'power-wash' and rinse'.

6. Have someone open the front door of your home.
Be sure that there are no people between the bathroom and the front door.

7. Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly lift the lid.

8. The cat will rocket out of the toilet, streak through the bathroom,
And run outside where he will dry himself off.

9. Both the commode and the cat will be sparkling clean.

Sincerely,

The Dog