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