BEHIND BARS

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.
It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
~Henry David Thoreau

Where does the white go when the snow melts?
~Author Unknown

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
~ Ruth Stout

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. ~ Edith Sitwell

Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.
~Bill Morgan, Jr.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
~Edith Wharton

"Goodbye Old Friend"

Do not mourn my passing for if you could only see
By slipping all my earthly bonds, I'm young again and free.
By day I run the Heavenly fields, my body healthy and strong
At night I sleep at Angels' Feet, lulled by Celestial Song.
So do not mourn my passing, just close your eyes - you'll see
I'm once again that frisky pup, just as you remember me.

(Author Unknown)

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. ~Henry David Thoreau

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute. ~Rebecca West, "Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice," The Clarion, 14 Nov 1913, reprinted in The Young Rebecca, 1982

It was nice growing up with someone like you
- someone to lean on, someone to count on...
someone to tell on!
~Author Unknown

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves.
For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.
~Author Unknown

What greater gift than the love of a cat?

~Charles Dickens

The human spirit needs places where nature
has not been rearranged by the hand of man.
~Author Unknown

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you....
In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other;
Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
~Ruth Stout

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
~Author Unknown

Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag.
~Helen Thomson

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like.
Design is how it works.
~Steve Jobs

Peace - that was the other name for home.
~Kathleen Norris

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world,
which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime,
and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.
There are seven million.
~Walt Streightiff

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. ~Author Unknown

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

Elixers~n~Fixers

Image Of A Simple Life

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Dog named Jesus

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

"Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace,

Wednesday’s child is full of woe, Thursday’s child has far to go,

Friday’s child is loving and giving, Saturday’s child works hard for living,

But the child that is born on Sabbath day Is bonny and blithe,

and good and gay."

"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."

MY ESCAPE

"Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly."

Working hard and playing hard...Just like the ole days...minus the substances!
Bought myself a new daysailer...'ESCAPE"...appropriately named

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he
grows up."

"During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight."

NorthAtlantic Blues Festival
Rockland, Maine

"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."

Feel an ugency to cram a bunch of fun into a few short months.
Summer in The State of Maine. Winters are long.

This ole bod needs more attention...inversion therapy , ice and occasional adjustments seem to be helping.