"After a girl is grown, her little brothers - now her protectors - seem like big brothers." ~ Astrid Alauda

• portaits (3)
• "I feel there is something unexplored about a woman that only a woman can explore." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe (16)
• "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." ~ Judy Garland (9)
• "The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy" ~ Persian proverb (20)
• "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul." Napoleon Hill (20)
• "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer" ~ Albert Camus (13)
• “Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you..." ~ St. Bartholomew (7)
• "He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. " ~ Robert Browning (18)
• "The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." ~ Anais Nin (7)
• black_and_whites (9)
• "A mother understands what a child does not say..." ~ Jewish proverb (5)
• "Nothing is worth more than this day..." Goethe (7)
• My mother once told me: "You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (59)
• lejazzhot (6)
• "I think my life began with waking up and loving my mother's face." ~ Mary Ann Evans (9)
• "After a girl is grown, her little brothers - now her protectors - seem like big brothers." ~ Astrid Alauda (8)
• "Acting is happy agony..." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre (8)
• "...like a rhythm unbroken, like drums in the night..." ~ Bono, U2 (12)
• "Life is just a chance to grow a soul." (22)
• "A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon" ~ Arnold Haultain (6)
• “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.” ~ Robert Frank (7)
• "What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing." ~ Geoffrey Chaucer (7)
• "Blue skies smiling at me... Nothing but blue skies do I see..." ~ Irving Berlin (7)
• "A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery." ~ Diana Stürm (8)
• “The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.” ~ Walter Savage Landor (9)
• "There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky..."~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (11)
• "A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves." ~ T. Guillemets (9)
• great_is_baseball (0)
• "I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee." ~ Joe DiMaggio (11)
• "The Outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day..." ~ Ernest Lawrence Thayer (23)
• "It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game." ~ Vin Scully (13)
• "The game of ball is glorious!" ~ Walt Whitman (16)
• "Some ball yard!" ~ Babe Ruth, 1923 - Yankee Stadium:The End of An Era 2008 (17)
• The "New" House ~ Images of Yankee Stadium (40)
• baseball (0)
• Take me out to the ball game...Take me out with the crowd..." (128)
• "I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee." ~ Joe DiMaggio (11)
• "The Outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day..." ~ Ernest Lawrence Thayer (23)
• "It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game." ~ Vin Scully (13)
• "The game of ball is glorious!" ~ Walt Whitman (16)
• "Some ball yard!" ~ Babe Ruth, 1923 - Yankee Stadium:The End of An Era 2008 (17)
• The "New" House ~ Images of Yankee Stadium (40)
• The Tampa Chronicles ~ Spring Baseball 2014 (13)
• black_and_white (0)
• "It's art that's taught me to think and to write. " ~ Andy Goldsworthy (8)
• "Say, its only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea..." Harold Arlen (11)
• "Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling. " ~ Claude Pepper (12)
• "Home is where one starts from..." ~ T.S. Eliot (9)
• “Other things may change us, but we start and end with family..." ~ Anthony Brandt (12)
• "The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out." ~ Annie Dillard (17)
• “I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.” ~ Anne Truitt (14)
• A Quaker Meeting House...A Place for Friends to Gather (9)
• "Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! ..." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (14)
• “If everything isn't black and white, I say, "Why the hell not?"” ~ John Wayne (8)
• "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love..." ~ Charlie Brown (7)
• children (0)
• "Babies are such a nice way to start people." ~ Don Herrold (7)
• "Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it..." ~ Marshall McLuhan (8)
• "A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.." ~ Mark Twain (26)
• "A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it." ~ Frank A. Clark (48)
• “A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.” ~ Allan Beck (9)
• "Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. " ~ Allan Beck (19)
• “Everything starts as somebody's daydream.” ~ Larry Niven (6)
• "What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it?" ~ Jenny DeVries (21)
• "Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music." ~ William Stafford (7)
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• the_hudson (0)
• " Suivez la rivière et vous trouverez la mer." ~ Old French Proverb (12)
• "Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~ Robert Byrne (17)
• "So it goes like it goes, like the river flows..." (8)
• "What a severe yet master artist old Winter is..." ~ John Burroughs (6)
• favorites (0)
• "Bed is the poor man's opera..." ~ Italian Proverb (6)
• "Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo. I do believe it. I do believe it's true." Paul Simon (41)
• "This night has been so strange that it seemed as if the hair stood up on my head..." ~ William Butler Yeats (16)
• “The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.” ~ Frederic Lawrence Knowles (10)
• "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer" ~ Albert Camus (13)
• “Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you..." ~ St. Bartholomew (7)
• "He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. " ~ Robert Browning (18)
• "A mother understands what a child does not say..." ~ Jewish proverb (5)
• "Nothing is worth more than this day..." Goethe (7)
• "...like a rhythm unbroken, like drums in the night..." ~ Bono, U2 (12)
• "Life is just a chance to grow a soul." (22)
• “Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume” ~ Jean de Boufflers (40)
• "Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it..." ~ Marshall McLuhan (8)
• "Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~ Robert Byrne (17)
• "I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee." ~ Joe DiMaggio (11)
• "The game of ball is glorious!" ~ Walt Whitman (16)
• "The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out." ~ Annie Dillard (17)
• "Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! ..." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (14)
• “If everything isn't black and white, I say, "Why the hell not?"” ~ John Wayne (8)
• "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love..." ~ Charlie Brown (7)
• “You may have the universe if I may have Italy” ~ Giuseppe Verdi (92)
• "A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway..." ~ Fr. Jerome Cummings (11)
• "He that will not work shall not eat." ~ Captain John Smith (10)
• "There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California." ~ Edward Abbey (23)
• "A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon" ~ Arnold Haultain (6)
• celebrations (0)
• "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." ~ Germaine Greer (17)
• "Creative Thought Matters" ~ Skidmore College Graduation - Class of 2009 (21)
• "...and let that grow in thee, and breathe in thee and act in thee..." ~ Isaac Penington, 17th century Quaker (7)
• "Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow." - ~ Imogen Cunningham (25)
• "Hold a true friend with both your hands." ~ Nigerian Proverb (57)
• "He who sings scares away his woes." ~ Cervantes (12)
• "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage." ~ Ambrose Bierce (9)
• "Marriage has no enemies that can survive a happy night.." ~ Ancient Chinese Proverb (12)
• "There is no such cozy combination as man and wife." ~ Menander (28)
• "You are the music while the music lasts." ~ T.S. Eliot (13)
• “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”~Judy Garland (49)
• niches (0)
• “You may have the universe if I may have Italy” ~ Giuseppe Verdi (92)
• "Open my heart and you will see, Graved inside it, "Italy!" ~ Robert Browning (52)
• "A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway..." ~ Fr. Jerome Cummings (11)
• "He that will not work shall not eat." ~ Captain John Smith (10)
• “April is a promise that May is bound to keep.” ~ Hal Borland (8)
• "…the City of New York, the noblest of the American symbols." ~ James Morris (133)
• "Without a shepherd sheep are not a flock." ~ Old Russian proverb (11)
• "There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California." ~ Edward Abbey (23)
• “Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.” ~ Stephen Wright (28)
• "I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them." ~ Diane Arbus (21)
• Cypher: a circle or group of people who focus on the same goals (12)
• “The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.” ~ Bennett Cerf (7)
• 145_palisades (9)
• "The Fulton Fish Market will be more of an odor than a landmark at this time of day..." ~ Timothy Levitch (26)
• I have heard, but not believed, that the spirits o' the dead May walk again." ~ William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (10)
• “The work of art is a scream of freedom.” ~ Christo (32)
• "An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous." ~ Henry Ford (19)
• Take me out to the ball game...Take me out with the crowd..." (128)
• "Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it." ~ Ayn Rand (3)
• "Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life!" ~ Rita Moreno (25)
• The Florida Chronicles (7)
• "Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted." ~ Barbara Steele (13)
• "Gather ye rose-buds while ye may..." Robert Herrick (0)
• "Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity." ~ John Ruskin (13)
• "The tulips should be behind bars like dangerous animals..." ~ Sylvia Plath (7)
• "Gather ye rose-buds while ye may..." Robert Herrick (10)
• "The tulips should be behind bars like dangerous animals..." ~ Sylvia Plath (10)
• "I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face." ~ Langston Hughes (37)
• “Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume” ~ Jean de Boufflers (40)
• "...O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire..." ~ James Joyce, Ulysses (7)
• "The calla lilies are in bloom again..." ~ Katherine Hepburn, Stage Door, 1937 (8)
• "Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don't care..." ~ Robert Hunter & Bob Weir (10)
• "When the deep purple falls, over sleepy garden walls..." Mitchell Rose (8)
• "When spring comes the grass grows by itself." ~ Tao Te Ching (10)
• "Gee, Toto, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore..." ~ Dorothy Gayle (8)
• "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." ~ Albert Camus (8)
• 'We are nearer to Spring than we were in September, I heard a bird sing in the dark of December..." ~ Oliver Herford (14)
• "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." ~ Oscar Wilde (12)
• "The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers." ~Basho (26)
• "You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it." ~Author Unknown (6)
• "It is at the edge of a petal that love waits." ~ William Carlos Williams (10)
• "Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances." ~ Maya Angelou (12)
• “Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education...” ~ Mark Twain (6)
• "When love is not madness, it is not love." ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca (14)
• “Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.” ~ Jack Handy (20)
• "Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly..." ~ Sylvia Plath "Mushrooms" (10)
• lilies (17)
• "August rushes by like desert rainfall..." ~ Elizabeth Maua Taylor (7)
• "We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. " ~ Eduardo Galeano (0)
• share_the_project (0)
• "Gratitude is the memory of the heart." ~ Jean Baptiste Massieu (39)
• "Courage is grace under pressure..." ~ Ernest Hemingway (11)
• "No one has ever become poor by giving." ~ Anne Frank (36)
• "Never doubt that a small group of citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead (30)
• "Real abundance is found when we join hands with those we love." ~ Anonymous (33)
• "Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. " ~ Amanda Heggs (21)
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• Nikon (1)
• “ Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson Nikon D200 (136)
• "Of course it's all luck!" ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson ~ Nikon D3, D3s, D4, D4s, D750, Z9 (197)
• sundries (0)
• ...Dem bones dem bones dem dry bones... (12)
• Hazy Shade of Winter... (13)
• "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass..." ~ Anton Chekhov (10)
• “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated...” ~ Gandhi (24)
• postcards_from_lodz (13)
• white on white (8)
• "Never try to outstubborn a cat." ~ Lazarus Long (8)
• Doppelgänger? Grazie Maestro Adal, per l'idea perfetta! (8)
• "Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it..." ~ Salvador Dali (10)
• “Better slip with foot than tongue” ~ Benjamin Franklin (14)
• "A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread." ~ George Herbert (12)
• "Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life." ~ John F. Kennedy (18)
• "People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life..." Author Unknown (14)
• "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." ~ Diane Arbus (12)
• interiors (9)
• "Sadness flies away on the wings of time." ~Jean de La Fontaine (9)
• In Box (0)
• “These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.” ` the Bible (14)
• "The tulips should be behind bars like dangerous animals..." ~ Sylvia Plath (10)
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