out there

madison shoreline, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

-- Fran Lebowitz

keep going

homeward bound, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

-- Thomas Henry Huxley

organizational attentiveness

bearded dragon(boat), originally uploaded by McBeth.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

advocacy

taking care of each other, originally uploaded by McBeth.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office.

-- Gloria Steinem

well, maybe just this once

funnel cake, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

-- Carrie Bradshaw/Sara Jessica Parker

clematis

garden ladder, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

-- Ronald Harwood

liquidity

smooth ride, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution.
Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion.

-- Fred Rogers

structural integrity

checks and balances, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

once again, and this time with feeling

midday, somewhere in France, originally uploaded by McBeth.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.

-- Chuck Palahniuk

egged on

happy eggs come from smiling chickens, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

-- Mark Twain

womb

womb, originally uploaded by McBeth.

STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.

REG: What?!

LORETTA: It's my right as a man.

JUDITH: Well why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?

LORETTA: I want to have babies.

REG: You want to have babies?

LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.

REG: But- you can't have babies.

LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.

REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?”

cut off

rising tide, originally uploaded by McBeth.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

-- Henry Miller

qu'attendez-vous

necking, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

-- Marcus Aurelius

springtime pulses

veined, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

-- George Eliot

treasure

pot of gold, originally uploaded by McBeth.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

inescapable

in the woods, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

-- Pippin

repetition

try try again, originally uploaded by McBeth.

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

-- Mark Twain

swimming

how the swedish make sushi, originally uploaded by McBeth.

How I wish, how I wish you were here...

We're just two lost souls
swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year....

Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.


Wish you were here.

-- Pink Floyd

the funerial palette

her red tent, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

-- Bill Blass

a scourge on your houses

a determined tulip cannot be stopped, originally uploaded by McBeth.

OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof --an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

-- Ambrose Bierce

offerings

tasty morsels, originally uploaded by McBeth.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

-- George Washington

partners

it takes two, originally uploaded by McBeth.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

-- Nelson Mandela

make it a double

when the party's over, originally uploaded by McBeth.

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

-- Al Capone

making sure

oh, about three feet, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

-- Mae West

be flexible

kelsy schoenhaar, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper.

-- George Santayana

eagle watching

eagle eyes, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

-- Sitting Bull

the golden years

the golden years, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

-- Tennessee Williams

your attention please

outbound flight, originally uploaded by McBeth.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

-- Edward de Bono

waiting

vanilla vodka , originally uploaded by McBeth.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

-- Kathleen Norris

standing out

birch, originally uploaded by McBeth.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

-- Jean Giraudoux

social hour

gallery night, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Society is no comfort to one not sociable.

-- William Shakespeare

gold

work it out, originally uploaded by McBeth.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

-- Jeremy Taylor

the gift of glow

glowing gift, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow.

-- Homer Simpson

high heights

test: lab color, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

tiny successes

sssshhh..., originally uploaded by McBeth.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

-- Norman Lear

i am convinced

bubblemobile , originally uploaded by McBeth.

That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

-- Lyman Frank Baum

three

three girls, originally uploaded by McBeth.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

-- Tom Bodett

of two minds

two wars, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

-- General George S. Patton

inversion

blue leaf, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

-- Gaston Bachelard

womanly

once a month, originally uploaded by McBeth.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

-- Louisa May Alcott

flying solo

resting, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

-- Karl Kraus

implementation

hay rake, originally uploaded by McBeth.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

-- Herbert Prochnow

drawing lines

this way out, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Never draw a line in the sand. Regardless of how irritated you are with your opponents, you have to leave an opening for them to find their way back.

-- Nancy Pelosi

garlic

purple garlic, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

Alice May Brock

colorless

adobe, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Keep Ted Turner and his goddamned Crayolas away from my movies.

-- Orson Welles

capitalism

big gulp, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

-- Jawaharlal Nehru

proud

celebrate, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

-- Paul "Bear" Bryant

high heights

up yonder, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

-- Zig Ziglar

checking out, checking in

vacancy, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

-- HH the Dalai Lama

playful

cannonball, originally uploaded by McBeth.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

-- Plato