4/29/2015 - Spring Flowers -Quote - Basho - Flowers

Greetings and Salutations from Illinois!   I took some photographs of these flowers that are blooming in our backyard.  Spring has finally come to our area.   The weather is cool but starting to warm up into the 60s.  Life is grand!   

Safety in numbers

Crack the Whip

Not Forgotten

Twins?

Linking up with:

Outdoor Wednesday http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/
http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2015

http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/

Thank you all for hosting these blogs.  

Quote:

"The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers."

~ Basho

4/27/2015 - Thinking Outside the Box - Quote - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Heart

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

4/24/2015 - SkyWatch Friday - Lake Michigan Winter and Spring - Quote - Joel Osteen - Enthusiasm for Life

Greetings and Salutations from Illinois!   If you would like to view skies from all over the world click here: http://skyley.blogspot.com/.  I'd like to thank the Skywatch hosts who are:   Yogi, Sylvia and Sandy.

 

Lake Michigan in Winter.

Lake Michigan in Spring.

"One of the main reasons that we loose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful....We let what was once a miracle become common to us.  We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes routine."
~ Joel Osteen

4/22/2015 - Outdoor Wednesday #328 - Quote - Kelly Clarkson - Love

Greetings and Salutations from Illinois!   If you would like to view Outdoor images then click here: http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/.  Thank you Susan for being the hostess.

Squirrel just hanging out down at the beach.

Two smart Canadian Geese checking out the still waters in the bay.

This is what Lake Michigan looked like yesterday afternoon after 4:00 P.M.

"My friends and family are my support system.  They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear, and they are there for me in the good and bad times.  Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above water."
~ Kelly Clarkson

My first time to link up with this site:   http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2015/04/at-keyboard.html
Thanks for the invite.

4/20/2015 - Thinking Outside the Box - Dirty Window #2 - Quote - Henri Matisse - Creativity

"Creativity takes courage."
~ Henri Matisse

Exploring outside and inside, darkness and light, lines and more lines.

4/15/2015 - Outdoor Wednesday - #327 - Quote - Brenda Ueland - Feelings

Howdy Folks!   If you would like to take a gander at Outdoor Photos click here: http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/.   Thank you Susan for being the hostess.

"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountaintop, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten---happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another."
~ Brenda Ueland

4/14/2015 - Thinking Outside the Box - Dirty Windows - Quote - Alsha Mirza - Journeys

"Sometimes the best journeys are those that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know."
~ Alsha Mirza

Have you ever seen sheets of rain and yet you are standing where it isn't raining?    This is how I felt when I saw this lighting on a dirty window.   Notice the top half of the image  is dark and the bottom half of the photograph  is lighter.   How strange?   Lines wiggle like our paths on earth.   Circles showing there is no beginning or ending.  If you squint both eyes all I see are the two white lines on the left hand side all the other images in the photo disappear.   To me those white lines could be joy or sadness, however, a person feels that day.    And so it is.

4/11/2015 - Skywatch Friday -- Quote - Debasish Mridha - Morning and Evening

Howdy Folks!   If you would like to view skies from all over the world click here: http://skyley.blogspot.com/.   Our Skywatch Friday hosts are Yogi, Sylvia and Sandy.

"In the morning celebrate the beauty and the warmth of the sunlight; in the evening celebrate the song of silence and the love of night."
~ Debasish Mridha

4/3/2015 - Skywatch Friday

Howdy Folks!   If you would like to view skies from all over the world click here: http://skyley.blogspot.com/.  Our Skywatch Friday hosts are:  Yogi, Sylvia and Sandy.

4/1/2015 - Outdoor Wednesday - #325 - Lake Michigan

Greetings and Salutations from Illinois.  If you would like to view Outdoor Themes click here:
http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/. Thank you Susan for being the hostess.