24 December 2013

Best Friends

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

(Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About)


(Rostock, Germany. 07/2013)

20 December 2013

The Trio

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

(George William Curtis)


(Hanse Sail Rostock, Germany. 08/2013)

10 May 2013

Frozen Fence

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

(Robert Frost)


(Świnoujście, Poland. 03/2013)

08 May 2013

Frozen Tree

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

(Martin Luther)


(Świnoujście, Poland. 03/2013)

25 March 2013

Floes

So there we were on that ice floe, just the two of us, adrift in the polar night. Viskovitz turned and said, 'I'd like you to get our conversation down in black and white'.

( Alessandro Boffa, You're an Animal, Viskovitz!)


(Świnoujście, Poland. 03/2013)

23 March 2013

Icebound

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

(Andrew Wyeth)


(Świnoujście, Poland. 03/2013)

21 March 2013

Windy in Świnoujście

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

(Jimmy Dean)


(Świnoujście, Poland. 03/2013)

08 March 2013

Surrounded by Bottles



Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.


(Roger Babson)


(Rostock, Germany. 02/2013)

21 February 2013

Walleaning

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

(Arnold Haultain)


(Klosterhof, Convent of St. Catherine, Rostock, Germany. 02/2013)

20 February 2013

Winter Walk

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

(Anne Morrow Lindbergh)


(Forellenschenke, Sebnitz, Germany. 02/2013)

18 February 2013

Bird on Ice


I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

(David Herbert Lawrence)


(Lake Schwerin, Germany. 02/2013)

17 February 2013

Flying off into the Sunset

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

(Rabindranath Tagore)


(Sassnitz, Germany. 12/2012)

16 February 2013

Fun in the Snow

Dont complain about the snow on your neighbors roof when your own doorstep is unclean. 

(Confucius)
 

(Forellenschenke, Sebnitz, Germany. 02/2013)

15 February 2013

The Lake Houses

Dear new tenant, welcome to your new home. I'm sure you'll love living here as much as I did.
(Kate in The Lake House, 2006)


(Lake Schwerin, Germany. 02/2013)

14 February 2013

Ropes

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

(Franklin D. Roosevelt)


(Harbor Tour Sassnitz, Germany. 12/2012)

22 January 2013

Steady Gaze


I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

(Scott McCloud)


(Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany. 1/2013)

20 January 2013

Across the Shoulder

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

 (William Shakespeare)


(St. Nicholas' Church, Berlin, Germany. 01/2013)

18 January 2013

Castle Bridge

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

(David Russell)


(Děčín Castle, Czech Republic. 01/2013)

17 January 2013

Winter Fog

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant


(Bastei, Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Germany. 01/2013)

15 January 2013

Open Door

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.


 (Robert Collier)


(St. Nicholas' Church, Berlin, Germany. 01/2013)

14 January 2013

Crumbling Away

 If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

 (Tom Peters)

 

(Děčín Castle, Czech Republic. 01/2013)

11 January 2013

View onto the TV Tower

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

(Marcus Aurelius)
 

(Berlin Cathedral, Germany. 01/2013)

09 January 2013

Magpie on Cross



I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.

(Lord Thomson Of Fleet)


(Berlin Cathedral, Germany. 01/2013)