One Quiet Moment

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

Ah, how true indeed!!  Thank you to all of you, my charming gardeners!! Have a beautiful evening!!

Smile! It's Saturday

I know you have been lying awake at night wondering why baby diapers have brand names such as "Luvs", "Huggies," and "Pampers', while undergarments for old people are called "Depends".

Wellll here is the low down on the whole thing.

When babies dirty in their pants, people are still gonna Luv'em, Hug'em and Pamper'em. When old people dirty in their pants, it "Depends" on who's in the will!

Glad I got that straightened out so you can rest your mind.

One Quiet Moment

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing -- Matt Biondi

 

Looking Back on This Happy Friday!!

High School Dance 1950

I hate to admit how many of these I do remember!!

A Supermarket In 1964

Popular hair styles from the 50′s

The “Jackie Look”…1961

Buying a car in 1950

Doing homework… 1944

Sky Watch!!

Time to view the beautiful skies from all over the world!!

 

 

Join us and share the beauty your skies!! Such a  great

way to begin the weekend!!

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and
          the stars; you have a right to be here.
                                                                     - Desiderata   

Keep your sense of proportion by regularly, preferably daily,
          visiting the natural world.
                                                                            - Catlin Matthews

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon the verdant green
      hills is the most perfect refreshment.
                                                                                 - Jane Austin   

One Quiet Moment

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~Bern Williams

Happy IVGLDSW Day!

Today is International Very Good Looking, Damn Smart Woman's Day, so please send this message to someone you think fits this description. Please do not send it back to me as I have already received it from a Very Good Looking, Damn Smart Woman! And remember this motto to live by: Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, totally worn out and screaming 'WOOO HOOOOO what a ride!'

To the Girls !!

Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the hell happened.
~ Cora Harvey Armstrong ~

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut her up with cookies.
~ Unknown~

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
~ Helen Hayes (at 73)~

I refuse to think of them as chin hair. I think of them as stray eyebrows.
~ Janette Barb er~

Old age ain't no place for sissies.
~Bette Davis~

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
~ Caryn Leschen ~

I'm not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on.
~Roseanne Barr~

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman
~Maryon Pearson~

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt and call me over!

One Quiet Moment

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Some Laughs for Tuesday!! Those Old Guys Do Have Fun!!

Our World

Welcome to Our World!!! Share the beauty of your

world with us and enjoy the beauty of others

worlds as well!!  I have company from out

of town and won't be available to visit as many sites

as I would like to, but I wish you a great week -- one with

your camera in hand, of course!!

Ah, it's always fun to revisit those favorite places and times!!

Don't miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for that pot of gold. ~Author Unknown

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

Sunshine has no budget, the sea no red tape. ~Terri Guillemets

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The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~John Keats

Wisdom for the Day -- and a Giggle!

 An old man, a boy & a donkey were going to town.
 
 The boy rode on the donkey & the old man walked.

As they went along they passed some people who remarked it was a shame
 the old man was walking and the boy was riding
.
The man and boy thought maybe the critics were right, so they changed positions.
 
 Then, later, they passed some people who remarked,

 'What a shame, he makes that little boy walk.'

So they then decided they'd both walk!
 
Soon they passed some more people who thought
they were stupid to walk when they had a Decent donkey to ride.

So, they both rode the donkey.
 
Now they passed some people who shamed them by saying how awful to put
such a load on a poor donkey.

 The boy and man figured they were probably right, so they decide to carry the donkey.

As they crossed the bridge, they lost their grip on the
animal and he fell into the river and drowned.

The moral of the story?

If you try to please everyone, you might as well kiss your ass goodbye!

 Have a Nice Day and Be Careful With Your Donkey

One Quiet Moment

In the sky
an infinitude of hope,
a canvas of glory
all possibilities mine.
~Terri Guillemets

So, You Think You Know Everything???

            A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

 A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

 A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

 A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

 A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

 A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

 A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

 A snail can sleep for three years.

 Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

 All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

 Almonds are a member of the peach family.

 An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

 Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

 Butterflies taste with their feet.

 Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

 "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

 February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

 In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

 If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

 If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

 Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

  Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

 No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

 Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

 Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite .

 Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

 "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

 The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

 The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

 The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

 The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

 The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

 The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

 There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

 There are more chickens than people in the world.

 There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous,    horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

 There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious"    and "facetious."

 There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

 Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

 TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

 Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

 Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

 Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

 now... you know everything!

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Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery

How About These Horses!!! Pretty Incredible!!

Artist's life-size beach sculptures made from driftwood.
Majestic: These horses may look real but are in fact made from thousands of pieces of driftwood salvaged from the shore. Each of the sculptures stands around 6ft tall

Birmingham-based master craftsman James Doran-Webb (pictured on horse) spent a painstaking six months assembling the sculptures as part of celebrations to mark Chinese New Year in Singapore. Each horse weighs around half a tonne and can take the weight of five people. Doran-Webb made all three with moveable limbs and neck so they can be arranged into lifelike poses, as these stunning photographs show.

The intricate trio of horses were constructed for the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, a nature park similar to Cornwall's Eden Project. They took pride of place in one of the Gardens' glass domes as part of its Chinese New Year celebrations on January 31, which fittingly marks the Year of the Horse.

Doran-Webb comes from Birmingham but has been living in Cebu City in the Philippines for 26 years where he runs a workshop.

He said: 'Putting the driftwood onto the sculpture took about three months. The large bits go on first followed by the more intricate pieces.' 

Each horse is made from 400 pieces of driftwood of varying sizes built around a stainless steel skeleton. The wood he uses in his sculptures has been salvaged from beaches and rivers around Cebu by a network of locals who Doran-Webb pays to collect it. For every kilo of wood salvaged, he plants a seedling at one of several sites around the city.

He said: 'The three thoroughbred horses are my latest driftwood creation... Each horse took two months to make and contains about 400 pieces of driftwood of varying sizes.'

'By the time they are finished each one weighs 500kgs and can carry the weight of four or five people,' he added.

Doran-Webb went on to say: 'I started off collecting the driftwood myself in my kayak but now I have a network of locals who I pay to collect it for me which helps put money back into poor communities.
 
The wood Doran-Webb uses for his sculptures is around 50 years old, and according to the craftsman it is ideal to work with. He said: 'It is an oily wood so it withstands weather and it is very tensile - it's a dream to work with.'

'I started out with sketches of the horses then once I was happy with them I made miniature models of them, which took a month on its own,' he added.

Doran-Webb said the next step was to make a large plywood template to weld the stainless steel frame onto.