Winter is on my head,
but eternal spring is in my heart.
~Victor Hugo

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
~Aristotle

In the right light,
at the right time,
everything is extraordinary.
~Aaron Rose

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
~John Howard Pane

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
~Rabbi Abraham Heschel

The Coast of Maine.................How Quaint!

Have nothing in your houses that you do not
know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
~William Morris

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Camden Harbor

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
~Anna Sewell

Little Narrows Lake

I'm on vacation...

The census at work has eased-up. Hope to get an opportunity to take some ETO.

Dipping Easter Eggs

Birthday Boy

THE PERFECT ONES....

"Dog Day Afternoon"

Just set up my new verizon dsl service and figured out how to network these machines wirelessly...I'm a damn genius!!!!

V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N........YIPEE