Pick A Pumpkin

Orange is the happiest color.

(Frank Sinatra)



(Omaha, Nebraska. 10/2010)

Fish Attack

The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air.

(Rabindranath Tagore)



(Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, Nebraska. 10/2010)

Enjoy the Sunset

When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.

(Mahatma Gandhi)

("Stokes", Omaha, Nebraska. 10/2010)

Being One With The Reed

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

(Blaise Pascal)

(Freedom Park Omaha, Nebraska. 10/2010)

Clown Love

If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown.

(Adam Walinsky)

(Omaha, Nebraska, USA. 10/2010)

Ready For Take-Off

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

(Langston Hughes)

(Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, Nebraska. 10/2010)

Gone With The Wind

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

(Albert Camus)

(Omaha, Nebraska. 10/2010)

Has The Train Left Yet?

Life barrels on like a runaway train where the passengers change, they don't change anything, you get off someone else can get on.

(Ben Folds)



(Lincoln, Nebraska. 09/2010)

Pumpkins

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

(Lincoln, Nebraska. 09/2010)

I Bought A Monkey Yesterday...

By trying often the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

(African Proverb)



(Lincoln Children's Zoo, Nebraska. 09/2010)

Sunset at the Train Station

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

(Lincoln, Nebraska. 09/2010)

Where Did The Lake Go?

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

(Johnny Depp)



(Zell am See, Austria. 08/2010)

Mom's the Best

A mother's treasure is her daughter.

(Catherine Pulsifer)



(Waterfall of Krimml, Austria. 08/2010)

Shimmer in the Water

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

(Lao Tzu)

(Kitzsteinhorn, Austria. 08/2010)

Whirlpool

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.


(Henry David Thoreau)

(Lake Zell, Zell am See, Austria. 08/2010)

Butterflyness

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

(Rabindranath Tagore)


(Schmittenhöhe, Zell am See, Austria. 08/2010)

Beautiful Nature

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

(Arthur Conan Doyle)

(Waterfalls of Krimmel, Austria. 08/2010)

Raindrops Falling On The Railing

If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water.

(Loren Eiseley)

(Mooserboden Reservoir, Kaprun, Austria. 08/2010)

From Inside

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.


(Anthony Anderson)

(Sebnitz, Germany. 08/2010)

Flag of Truth

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

(Coco Chanel)

(Sebnitz, Germany. 08/2010)

What a Guy Wants

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.


(Robert Hughes)

(Sebnitz, Germany. 08/2010)

Someone Left His Heart Behind

The warmest blankets of peace snow only from the heart.

(Layne Russell)



(Kallmünz, Germany. 12/2009)

Which One For Dinner?

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

(Henry David Thoreau)



(Kallmünz, Germany. 12/2009)

Aww

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

(Drew Barrymore)



(Kallmünz, Germany. 12/2009)

Follow the Course of the River

Love is the river of life in the world.

(Henry Ward Beecher)

(Kallmünz, Germany. 12/2010)

Ice Cream's so Yummy

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

(Aldous Huxley)



(Kallmünz, Germany. 12/2009)

Hand In Hand

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

(Eleanor Roosevelt)



(Kallmünz, Germany. 12/2009)

Rome Through my Sunglasses

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

(Giotto di Bondone)

(Rome, Italy. 08/2009)

Would you mind closing the window?

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

(Honore De Balzac)



(Venice, Italy. 09/2009)

Two Sides of Pisa

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

(Earl Nightingale)

(Pisa, Italy. 08/2009)

Pidgins In Milan

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

(Charlotte Brontë)



(Milan, Italy. 09/2009)

Where are my roots?

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

(Saxon Switzerland, Germany. 05/2010)

Where did the Baumschubser go?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

(Carl Sandburg)

(Saxon Switzerland, Germany. 05/2010)

Snow Storm

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.


(William Blake)

(Sebnitz, Germany. 12/2009)

Frozen Window

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

(Jean Paul)

(Highway, Germany. 12/2009)

Waves

Water is the driving force of all nature.

(Leonardo da Vinci)

(San Antonio, Texas. Riversidewalk. 03/2010)

Gazebo

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

(Paul Cezanne)

(Austin, Texas. Colorado River. 03/2010)

Downtown Cincinnati

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

(Drew Barrymore)

(Cincinnati, Ohio. 03/2010)

Trinity

One cat just leads to another.

(Ernest Hemingway)

(Mason, Ohio. 03/2010)

Spiked Heart

Everybodys got a hungry heart

(Bruce Springsteen)

(Austin, Texas. Duval St. 03/2010)

Squirrel = a Bushy-tailed Woodland Rodent That Climbs Trees and Eats Nuts

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.

(Sarah Jessica Parker)



(Austin, Texas. State Capitol. 03/2010)