Nothing is impossible to a valiant heart.
~ Jeanne D’Albret
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2008
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Erin
Coddiwompling through life, guided by my love of nature and insatiable curiosity.Overheard: What Fer?
A gray-haired gent explained how his mom would tell him to mind his manners as a child. When told to do something, young Ross would ask, “What fer?” Exasperated, his mom would reply, “What fur? Why, cat fur! To make kitten britches!”
Clearly, there’s nothing else to say after an outburst like that! I hadn’t heard that phrase before so, of course, I Googled it. Apparently, it is a saying used in the South to remind children to use proper English and stop questioning their elders. Truly, it’s nonsensical and yet there’s something oddly compelling about the idea of kitten britches…
Wylie Ann Kitty, Tucson, Arizona 2017
10-27 Sol Shine
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Sunset Over Lummi Island, Bellingham, Washington 2018
Funny Friday
Spotted this last month in the Police Blotter section of the Flathead Beacon:
Apparently, rural Montana is full of characters! The section is updated sporadically and never fails to amuse.
10-26 Sol Shine
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
~ Marcel Proust
Coachwhip, Tucson, Arizona 2014
10-25 Sol Shine
Believe those who seek the truth, don’t believe those who find it.
~ André Gide
White-faced Ibis, Tulelake National Wildlife Refuge, Tulelake, California 2008
10-24 Sol Shine
Sweetie, if you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.
~ Flo Kennedy
Grand Canyon Vista, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona 2008
10-23 Sol Shine
It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won’t stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.
~ Annie Dillard
Sunlight and Fog, Stimpson Family Nature Preserve, Bellingham, Washington 2018
10-22 Sol Shine
And now it is your Life Story, and it is you who plays the leading role. The stage is set, the time is now, and the place wherever you are.
~ Virginia Lee Burton
Short-tailed Weasel, Hidden Lake Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana 2008
10-21 Sol Shine
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; Not going all the way and not starting.
~ Gautama Buddha
Cape Creek Bridge, Florence, Oregon 2018
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