25 October 2010

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)

23 October 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)

22 October 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)