Outside of the Box Photograph #4

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For this shot, I took a black shoe box and then randomly placed packing supplies on the floor.

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

...William Faulkner (1897-1962)

2/17 Outdoor Wednesday - #58

Click here to participate or view other blogs who have posted images for Outdoor Wednesday: http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/. Thank you Susan for being the hostess.

This Outdoor Wednesday I am posting four images of the Burnham Log House, Winnetka, Illinois, photographed during blizzard conditions Tuesday, February 9th. If you would like more information about the Burnham Log Cabin click here: http://winnetkahistory.org/indexphp?id=170.

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, but is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

...J. B. Priestly

English novelist

Outside of the Box Photograph #3

This moment caught in this image speaks of nature (trees and sky), versus Cross, versus man made materials which was viewed at Florida State College, Lakeland, Florida, 12/2009. Notice how vertical and horizontal lines interplay with each other. I am doing a study, in this case, outside looking inside.

Warshing Clothes Recipe

I received this recipe in an email this week:

Warshing Clothes Recipe:

"Build fire in backyard to heat rainwater.
Set tubs so smoke won't blow in eyes if wind is pert.
Shave one whole cake of lie soap in boiling water.

Sort things. Make three piles.
1 pile white
1 pile colored
1 pile work britches and rags
To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth, then thin
down with boiling water. Take white things, rub dirty spots
on board, scrub hard and boil. Then rub colored, don't boil
just wrench and starch.

Take things out of kettle with broom stick handle, then wrench and starch.
Hang old rags on fence.
Spread tea towels on grass.
Pore wrench water in flower bed.
Scrub porch with hot soapy water.
Turn tubs upside down.
Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs.
Brew cup of tea, sit and rock a spell and count your blessings."

SkyWatch Friday - Season 4 - Episode #31

This week I am featuring the Burnham Log House, Winnetka, Illinois, photographed during blizzard conditions Tuesday, February 9th. If you would like more information click here:

http://winnetkahistory.org/indexphp?id=170. Isn't it hard to see where the sky begins and the land ends?

Thanks to the skywatch team who are: Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy, Louise and Sylvia for all your hard work in making Skywatch Friday possible. Click here to participate or view other skies from all over the world: http://skyley.blogspot.com/.

2/10 Outdoor Wednesday - #57

Click here to participate or view other blogs who have posted images for Outdoor Wednesday: http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/. Thank you Susan for being the hostess. I really look forward to this event each week.

Mardi Gras begins after the Epiphany and ends on the day before Ash Wednesday.

"Fat Tuesday" equals eating before the ritual of fasting for the
Lenten season.

Who dat?
Information about seeing this scene painted on wall of Charcoal Oven Restaurant click here: http://home.comcast.net/~jeffkrakow/Charcoal/index.html.

These outfits could be picked to wear for the Carnival celebrations.

Should I wear this mask?

Or hold this one?

Close-up of a mask.

Jeepers. To tell you the truth I have never been to New Orleans, Louisiana to celebrate Mardi Gras or even a "Fat Tuesday" event anywhere. Think I will celebrate at home by eating pancakes until I drop.

Click here for more information about Mardi Gras: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras.

Quote by Gendum Rinpoche

"Happiness cannot be found though great effort and will power, but is already there, in relaxation and in letting-go. Don't strain yourself. There is nothing to do ... Only our search for happiness prevents us from seeing it. Don't believe in the reality of good and bad experiences; they are the rainbows.

Wanting to grasp the ungraspable, you exhaust yourself in vain.
As soon as you relax this grasping space is there open, inviting and comfortable.

So make use of it.
All is yours already.
Don't search any further.
Nothing to do.
Nothing to force.
Nothing to want,
___and everything happens by itself."
...Gendum Rinpoche