Caffeine isn’t a drug, it’s a vitamin! ~Author Unknown

Tree lights

Ole Blue eyes is a pretty cool cat…in the hood

Wrightsville Beach / Wilmington, NC…..Black and White – Coastal series

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Digitalis

Columbine spent seed pod

Whew. Quite all right, but you did give me quite a turn. ~Door Knob | “Alice in Wonderland”

Beer. Now there’s a temporary solution. ~Dan Castellaneta

 

Photos of artist’s art

Painting is “Soft Eyes” by Sally Anger and was Best in Show. I liked how Chris Morgan’s “Genuflection to the Cube” (first place winner) sculpture was positioned / juxtaposed with the painting. Chris Morgan’s sculpture, was the first place winner.

Robin and chicks

R

Jazz is rhythm and meaning. ~Henri Matisse

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ~Max Muller

Haw River at Saxapahaw, North Carolina

North Carolina Coast

Architecturally speaking….arches and angles

Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, North Carolina | State Capitol

Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium

Columbine in bloom

Fern unfurls

“Achieved by dauntless resolution and unconquerable faith.” Wright Brothers Memorial / Kill Devil Hill

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius

Hops Vine….”Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.” ~Kaiser Wilhelm

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. ~Mary Wollstonecraft

Reflections, shadows and light

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. ~Ellis Peters

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. ~Ivan Turgenev

Double blind study

Double exposure on window blinds

“If a man finds himself with bread in both hands, he should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the the flowers feed the soul” ~Muhammad

Camellia…Remembering Donald Taylor

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison

1958 Buick x 2

1958 Buick

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard. ~Anne Spencer

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. ~Ronald Reagan

Reflections in a bubble

Reflections in a bubble

To feel relevant is necessary to happiness…

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.” ~Arthur Hiller

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ~John Dryden

”I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~Maya Angelou

North Carolina Coast

Summertime is calling me

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ~Mother Teresa

Vinca major Common Names: large periwinkle, big periwinkle Family: Apocynaceae (dogbane Family)

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. ~Michelangelo

“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” ~Sigmund Freud

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. ~William Arthur Ward

“It is good to have friends with benefits.” a home brew by t.christian

Live each day the Gummi Way. ~Gruffi

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

Eucalyptus

“Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.” ~W. H. Auden

Injustice boils in men’s hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time. ~Mother Jones

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein

Grandmother’s chair

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. ~William Shakespeare

I’d much rather hang out in a cafe. That’s where things are really happening. ~Joe Sacco / Journalist

Cock your hat – angles are attitudes. ~Frank Sinatra

“Sometimes I like to vent.” ~Victoria Jackson

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. ~Percy Ross

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. ~David Herbert Lawrence

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. ~Henry David Thoreau

Anachronism…what is…

An anachronism can be an artifact which appears out of place archaeologically, geologically, or temporally. It is sometimes called OOPArt, for “out-of-place artifact“.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. ~Albert Einstein

“Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you’re home.” ~C. Nelson

“Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.” ~Sir Walter Raleigh

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. ~T. S. Eliot

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. ~Henry Lawson

“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” ~Vladimir Nabokov

Generational memories on our Christmas staircase…

Mood…music

Tomato in window: Nikon D700 / 200mm macro / ISO 3200 (too high), f8, 1/2000 with -.05 compensation

The newel post..

Of winter’s lifeless world each tree Now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret Deep down within its heart. ~Charles G. Stater