Sky Watch Friday!

Sky Watch Friday is hosted each week by Klaus and the Sky Watch Team of Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy, Louis and myself. Each week hundreds of people from all over the world share the beauty of their skies! Won't you join us and share yours?
Click on the icon, sign up and show us the beauty of the skies in your part of the world. PLEASE do read and follow the instructions on the home page before you sign in. Thank you and enjoy!

First of all I'd like to wish each and everyone of you a very Wonderful Holiday Season for the year! And my shots for the day were taken last evening at the harbor and one from my deck. Beautiful skies have been enjoyed, written about, painted, photographed, these are just a few samples of why that is so!



Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore



In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Frederic Lawrence Knowles



The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
Author: Alfred Kreymborg



All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
Richard Brautigan

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~Harlan Miller



The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. ~John Andrew Holmes



People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December. ~Ogden Nash



If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart



I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton



He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus



Gratitude is the best attitude. ~Author Unknown

Your Laugh for the Day!

Miscommunication

A co-worker got a pen stuck inside our printer. He started to try and remove the pen, but I told him we didn't have time for that now, and to just put a note on the printer telling folks not to use it. Then report it to the Help Desk. So he grabbed a piece of paper and scribbled on it. I left before he finished the note.
About 20 minutes later, one of my techs came in laughing and said he was just in the lobby, saw a piece of paper on a printer and went to investigate.
Attached is what he found. Sometimes things don't always come out the way you want them to...

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And just so you know .....

there were probably many, many times this year when I may have disturbed you, troubled you, pestered you, irritated you, bugged you, or got on your nerves with all the e-mails I send.

So today I just wanted to tell you..........

Suck it up,"Cupcake" !!!
Cause there are NO changes planned for 2010 !!!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
~Soren Kierkegaard



Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
~Jean de Boufflers



Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858



Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? ~Maurice Maeterlinck



Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran



The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination. ~Ward Elliot Hour

ABC Wednesday -- W!

Time for ABC Wednesday hosted by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt, so join the fun and test your skill with the alphabet! Click on the icon, sign up and show us what comes to your mind with the letter W!

As I was getting ready to put this post together I realized I was hungry so that will explain a couple of my entries for the day. W is for Waffles!



And W is for Waldorf Salad!



W is for Wharf



W is for Winter!



And, of course, W is for Water Fall!



W is for West where you look to find the sunsets! W is Wet! A Well known W
in the northwest! And W is for Wonderful! And life is!! If you are Willing to see it that Way!!! And now that I have played a serious Goody Two Shoes, I Will Wish you a Wonderful Week!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson



Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~Proverb



Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~Auguste Rodin



We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that. ~Bernard Malamud, The Natural



Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. ~Andre Gide, Le traite du Narcisse, 1891

That's My World - Seattle - Pioneer Square

That's My World is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World team of Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy, Louise and myself. Each week people from all over the world share the beautiful and interesting parts of their world. Click on the icon, sign up and share your world with us! PLEASE!
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This week I thought that I would share another fun place in Seattle called Pioneer Square! The photos and history are courtesy of Google and Wikipedia.

Christmas in Seattle!



Pioneer Square is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of Downtown Seattle, Washington, USA. It was once the heart of the city: Seattle's founders settled there in 1852, following a brief six-month settlement at Alki Point on the far side of Elliott Bay. The early structures in the neighborhood were mostly wooden, and nearly all burned in the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. By the end of 1890, dozens of brick and stone buildings had been erected in their stead; to this day, the architectural character of the neighborhood derives from these late 19th century buildings, mostly examples of Richardsonian Romanesque.

The Totem Pole



Pioneer Square in the Spring!



The neighborhood takes its name from a small triangular plaza near the corner of First Avenue and Yesler Way, originally known as Pioneer Place. The Pioneer Square-Skid Road Historic District, a historic district including that plaza and several surrounding blocks, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Like virtually all Seattle neighborhoods, the Pioneer Square neighborhood lacks definitive borders. It is bounded roughly by Alaskan Way S. on the west, beyond which are the docks of Elliott Bay; by S. King Street on the south, beyond which is SoDo; by 5th Avenue S. on the east, beyond which is the International District; and it extends between one and two blocks north of Yesler Way, beyond which is the rest of Downtown. Because Yesler Way marks the boundary between two different plats, the street grid north of Yesler does not line up with the neighborhood's other streets (nor with the compass), so the northern "border" of the district zigzags along numerous streets.



In some places, the Pioneer Square-Skid Road Historic District extends beyond these borders. It includes Union Station east of 4th Avenue S., and several city blocks south of S. King Street.

Ready for some coffee or a bite of lunch?



One of my favorite places very near Pioneer Square is Elliott Bay.



The Elliott Bay ferry.



And my most favorite spot of all to enjoy Pioneer Square!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher



Third world musings for the 3rd photo ....

The perfectly developed
advanced
philanthrophic
petals,
side by side
with
the
troubled bud
still developing,
brown spots
amidst the
pervading green.

The leaves
in their greenness
do not skimp
on facing the Sun
to make food
for all,
and oxygen
for all,
big and small.

But sometimes,
it helps,
if,
like a mother,
the big one
gives up its
portion,
to the one,
who is trying
to flower,
amidst
the troubling browns,
to get
into the pink of health

Copenhagen , anyone ?

Posted by Ugich Konitari to Sylvia From Over The Hill at December 20, 2009 9:10 PM
You can read more of her wonderful poetry and thoughts here
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin



You can cage the singer but not the song. ~Harry Belafonte



Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
~Chinese Proverb



Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. ~Helen MacInness

Pet Pride!

Hey, guys! Christmas is almost here!! Are you as excited as Mojo and I are? Let's all go see what Bozo has planned over in Mumbai! Get your buddy to click on the Pet Pride picture and sign you up to play!

Here we are all decked out and ready to celebrate -- all groomed and clean and smiling for Santa!



I went down to the beach with Dad and started watching for Santa! Is it a bird, a plane, or Super Santa!! Hee hee, I thought that was kind of clever!



You always think you're clever, Mojo! And you are -- some of the time!!



Don't be a wet blanket, Sam! I'm feeling so good now that Dad is home for Christmas, I just want to roll around and have some fun! Don't you?



Yeah, I do, too. Let's go sit on the deck so we can see him before Max and Izzy do!
Good idea! We make a pretty good pair, we do!