Skywatch Friday - February 27, 2014 Edition

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Curacao

Quote - Antoine de Saint Exupery - Giving

"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give."
~ Antoine de Saint Exupery

Quote - Albert Camus - Walking

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.  Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.  Just walk beside me and be my friend."
  ~ Albert Camus

2/26/2014 Outdoor Wednesday - #268

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R-e-a-l-l-y frigid at Lake Michigan.   Surprised to find a mother and small child out here.

Some one fed the squirrels and birds.   Taken at Lake Michigan.

Garage roof and fence during the winter blast of 2014.

Quote - Anais Nin - Write

"We write to taste life twice.  Once in a moment.  And once in retrospective."  ~ Anais Nin

Thinking Outside of the Box - Pensacola Road Less Traveled

I took this shot in Hayward, Wisconsin (on Pensacola a short cut). I put the original image trees and a road into Picasa 3 and had a bit of fun. This is the outcome.  Don't the trees look like feathers?  Somehow the road looks like sky reflecting into a pool of water.

To explain myself, every Monday for 52 weeks in a year, I try to post an image of what is overlooked, don't see, or change an image so something looks differently which is called Thinking Outside of the Box.

Quote - Georgia O'Keeffe - Seeing

"To see takes time." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Quote - Anne Leibovitz - Repetition

"I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame." ~ Anne Leibovitz

Quote - Cynthia Ozick - Gratitude

"We often take for granted the very things that deserve our gratitude." ~ Cynthia Ozick

Quote - Mary Oliver - Dazzled and Reflective

"Every day I walk out into the world to be dazzled, then to be reflective."  ~ Mary Oliver

Skywatch Friday - February 20, 2014 Edition

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Curacao

Quote - Alec Waugh - Love

"You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person."  ~ Alec Waugh

2/19/2014 Outdoor Wednesday - #267

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Past

Look how different this scene looks

Present

from this scene.

Past

Look how different this image looks

Present

from this scene.

Past

Look how different this scene looks

Present

from this scene.

Images of Lake Michigan in February this year and past years.

Quote - Betty Smith - Seeing

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first time or the last time."
~ Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Thinking Outside The Box - Umbrella

A Note From The Sky

Quote - Madisyn Taylor - Paths

"The stage between journeys can become a wonderful period of relaxation that prepares you for the path that will soon be revealed to you."  ~ Madisyn Taylor, Working Through Transitions

Quote - Eudora Welty - Order

"The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order." ~ Eudora Welty

Quote - Leo Tolstoy - Choices

"True life is lived when tiny choices are made." ~ Leo Tolstoy

Quote - Vladimir Nabokov - Invisible/Visible

"...but .there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
~ Vladimir Nabokov ( Russian Writer)

Skywatch Friday - February 13, 2014 Valentine's Day Edition

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2/12 Outdoor Wednesday - #266

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I'm dreaming of green grass, hydraneas, and bike riding.   Noticed in photographic files that I never posted these snaps.   So, instead of H-E-R-E'-S  JOHNNNNY!  It's H-E-R-E'-S  SAYBROOK COUNTRY BARRRRRN.   If you like to mix shopping with lunch this is the place to go in Saybrook, Connecticut.
Katherine Hepburn used to walk these sidewalks and breath air here.

Quote - Robert H. Schuller - Success

"The secret to success is simple:  find a hurt and heal it, find a problem and solve it, find an obstacle and remove it, bridge it, or turn it into an opportunity!" ~ Robert H. Schuller

Quote - David LaChapelle - Success

"Success to me is being a good person, treating people well." ~ David LaChapelle

Thinking Outside the Box - Palm Tree

Put a palm tree into Picasa Photo Program, played a while and came up with this.    Usually I post Thinking Outside the Box images on Monday.   I'm a day late and a dollar short.   Oh well.   Next week, perhaps, life won't interrupt me and I can be on time again with my goals.  

Quote - Ansel Adams - Silence

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.
When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
~Ansel Adams

Pink Saturday - February 7, 2014

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Thank you Beverly for being the hostess.

Magnolia blossom.

Quote - Linda Yellin - Writing Process

A third woman asked Cameron about his writing process.  Cameron grinned. "I sit down at my desk, turn on my computer, and hope for the best.  And when that doesn't work, I read The Hardy Boys."
What Nora Knew, Linda Yellin, Gallery Books, NY, ©2014, page 142.

Skywatch Friday - February 6, 2014 Edition

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Clouds in Curacao.

Quote - Susanne K. Langer - Discoveries

"Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there." ~ Susanne K. Langer

Quote - C. G. Jung - Playing

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.   The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."  ~  C. G. Jung

2/5/2014 Outdoor Wednesday - Manatee Sanctuary Park - Dolphin Sightings

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Manatee Sanctuary Park, 701 Thurm Blvd., Cape Canaveral, FL  32920

My husband, John and I left Orlando, Florida for a day trip.   After we had breakfast in Cocoa Beach, we discovered this wonderful place Manatee Sanctuary Park.   If one looks closely one will see water movement which is a dolphin.
 

I tried but failed to get the shot of a dolphin.   See the movement of water now almost not visible to the eye any more that is the same dolphin.  Oh my, I just love dolphins.   Once we went to Sea World in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with my mother-in-law.   We were actually able to feed smelt to baby dolphins and pet them.   Trainers were trying to get these dolphins used to being around people.  What an experience!

Quote - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Nagyrapolt - Seeing and Thinking

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Nagyrapolt

Thinking Outside the Box - Fish

Found this symbol at Lake Michigan on the ground in the snow.   Wonder how many times people have stepped on it and were not even aware of its existence?

Quote - Tom Callanan - Wonder

"The more I wander, the more I wonder." ~ Tom Callanan

Happy Ground Hog's Day!

Six more weeks of winter:
http://news.yahoo.com/handlers-punxsutawney-phil-predicts-longer-winter-122858885.html

Quote - Susan McHenry - Listening

"Deep listening is more than hearing with our ears, but taking in what is revealed in any given moment with our body, our being, our heart." ~ Susan McHenry