Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a ride!”
~ Hunter S. Thompson
End of the Day, Rodeo, New Mexico 2009
Shine like the whole universe is yours.
~ Rumi
Rosehip, Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park, Bristol, Maine 2007
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
~ Theodore N. Vail
Green Anole, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia 2007
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~ Walter Bagehot
American Coot, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2012
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
~ Albert Einstein
Javelina Rears, Tucson, Arizona 2010
Light tomorrow with today.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Clark’s Nutcracker, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon 2008
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
~ Anon
Fog Drip on Sitka Spruce, Cape Meares, Oregon 2018
Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
~ James Allen
Bison, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota 2010
Spotted recently in SE Portland. Don’t you just want to meet this cat? Some neighborhood lady is missing her garden gloves, and some little boy is very sad because he can’t find his Batman cape.
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
~ Oscar Wilde
Sailboat at Sunset, Ventura, California 2014
