the lookout

carmel corn, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

-- Mae West

commitment

Grandpa's ring , originally uploaded by McBeth.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

-- Martin Luther

just sit down

ring of flowers, originally uploaded by McBeth.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

-- Ernest Hemingway

pigs, primarily

pigs, primarily, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

-- George Bush, Sr.

in dignity

memorial, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

-- Luigi Pierandello

eventually

'49 desoto, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.

-- Robert H. Stoddard

waiting for what's next

woman at bus stop, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

-- Ovid

holiday onslaught

merry christmas, retail style, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

-- David Barry

uno dos tres

analogous, originally uploaded by McBeth.

We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces.

-- Alfred Adler

dig your well

badger liquor shop, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Thatch your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you become parched with thirst.

-- Chinese Proverb

streeting

blue cap @ yellow jersey, originally uploaded by McBeth.

If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable...

-- Mitch Hedberg

fabulous yellow

once we went to a mall, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"

-- Jack Kerouac

immoovable

she says she wants a word with you, originally uploaded by McBeth.

To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. . . . They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.

-- Bill Bryson

walkabout

walking with the girls at Indian Lake, originally uploaded by McBeth.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

-- Buddha

where'd it go?

surprise part II: here i am, originally uploaded by McBeth.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

-- Robin Williams

four parts

four shots, originally uploaded by McBeth.

BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by Dr. Johnson to be the drink of heroes. Only a hero will venture to drink it.

-- Ambrose Bierce

spectral evidence

holy wisdom monastary, originally uploaded by McBeth.

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

-- Susan Sontag

seasonal shades

autumn in wisconsin, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

-- Adlai E. Stevenson

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