that new lens smell

new eyes, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

-- e.e. cummings

companionship

over the hill, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.

-- Ross Parmenter

note to self

Yashica-C, originally uploaded by McBeth.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying.

-- David Viscott

as mud

call for mister kent, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

-- Dan Quayle

Meal Ready to Eat

buick, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

-- Mavis Gallant

cost of living

no longer registers, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs.

-- C.S. Lewis

three strings, electrified

Gallery Night music, Boho style, originally uploaded by McBeth.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid.

-- Willa Sibert Cather

little bird

red wings, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.

-- Shashi Deshpande

swizzle glub

swizzlers, originally uploaded by McBeth.

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

-- Stephen Wright

instinctual appeal

what's that I smell?, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

-- Helen Rowland

maintaining order

alphabet chart, originally uploaded by McBeth.

An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order.

-- Mike Barfield

stirring up trouble

today's beverage brought to you courtesy of the letter Q, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

-- Sydney Smith

Bohemian Bauble

Bohemian Bauble 5th anniversary, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Beginning today my photography will be available at The Bohemian Bauble, 404 Lakeside Street, Madison WI.

(golly jeepers but this is exciting!)

have a little faith

do with me as you will, originally uploaded by McBeth.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

-- Jacques Cousteau

the reality

a side of pickles, to go, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

-- Marilyn Monroe

feeling big

miss at mo, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.

-- Robert Frost

here when it isn't

road trip journal, day 2: um., originally uploaded by McBeth.

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

-- Albert Einstein

covenant

waterfront dining, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other

-- Rainer Maria Wilke

breaker breaker one niner

southern illinois, originally uploaded by McBeth.

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

-- Woodrow T. Wilson

shake it off

flapface horse, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls...I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live?

-- Homer Simpson

needs calculations

north woods, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

-- Dorothy Parker

help yourself

tom says 'help yourself', originally uploaded by McBeth.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

-- Oscar Wilde

making music

saw her there, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

-- Oscar Wilde

on task

truth in advertising, originally uploaded by McBeth.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

-- Ansel Adams

as the crow flies

as the crow flies, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

lent embraces

holding steady, originally uploaded by McBeth.

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

-- August Rodin

eventide

helliwell sunset, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

-- Mahalia Jackson

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