Fast Landing!!!

"Once you have tasted flight, 

you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, 

for there you have been,

and there you will always long to return."

Leonardo da Vinci

Interesting comment from Leonardo...long before the advent of airplanes!!!

Little did he know that the travel bug would include air travel!!!

I'm taking another breather...

but this time it's for fun and frolic!!!!

So I'm posting some of my favorites...

some that have grown on me...

and some just for fun!!!

I’ll be back November 20th!!! 

Linking to...

Another Beautiful Corner of Our World...

San Juan Capistrano mission, California

"Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world;

Without looking out of the window 

One can see the way of heaven.

The further one goes, 

The less one knows."

Lao Tzu

I'm taking another breather...

but this time it's for fun and frolic!!!!

So I'm posting some of my favorites...

some that have grown on me...

and some just for fun!!!

I’ll be back November 20th!!!

Linking to...

The Lotus...

Lotus in Huntington Library Gardens, Pasadena, California

"You must be a lotus, unfolding it's petals when the Sun rises in the sky,

unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!"

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

I'm taking another breather...

but this time it's for fun and frolic!!!!

So I'm posting some of my favorites...

some that have grown on me...

and some just for fun!!!

Linking to...

Softly Lit...Notre Dame...

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,

men cannot live without a spiritual life."

Buddha

I'm taking another breather...

but this time it's for fun and frolic!!!!

So I'm posting some of my favorites...

some that have grown on me...

and some just for fun!!!

Linking to...

Reflecting on Jonathan Livingston Seagull...

"Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and follows meaning,

a higher purpose for life?

For a thousand years we have scrabbled after fish heads, 

but now we have a reason to live-

to learn, to discover, to be free."

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach

I'm taking another breather...

but this time it's for fun and frolic!!!!

So I'm posting some of my favorites...

some that have grown on me...

and some just for fun!!!


Linking to...

Alpenglow...

I'm taking another breather...

but this time it's for fun and frolic!!!!

So I'm posting some of my favorites...

some that have grown on me...

and some just for fun!!!

This one was taken two years ago during our first year up here in Mammoth...

And yes...this is the actual color of the sky that day...

A true alpenglow

Linking to...

A Beautiful Little Corner of Our World!

Botanical Building in Balboa Park, San Diego, California

"When I look down, I miss all the good stuff, 

when I look up, I just trip over things."

Ani Difranco

I'm taking another breather...

but this time it's for fun and frolic!!!!

So I'm posting some of my favorites...

some that have grown on me...

and some just for fun!!!

I’ll be back November 20th!!!

Linking to...

A Happy Dog...

The weekend before last, Kelly couldn't decide what was more fun...

playing in the water...

or playing in the patches of snow...

(Unfortunately...the snow pics didn't come out all that well...)

But the happiest part of the day...

Was a wet lap dog!!!

Linking to....

A Juxtaposition of Seasons...

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own;

and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave,

it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy

that we can scarcely mark their progress."

Charles Dickens

Linking to...

Our Little Corner of the World...

What a difference a week can make...

This is the same shot as last week's aspens in front of the pines in our back "forty"...

Yeah...

Winter is showing up!!!

Puffs of Gold!!

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

Gerard De Nerval

Gerard was an interesting fellow...did you know he had a pet lobster...

named Thibault???

Linking to...

Fall is the Season of Change...

"Change is the law of life.  

And those who look only to the past or present

are sure to miss the future."

John F. Kennedy

Linking to...

Life in a Reflection...

"What is life?  It is the flash of a firefly in the night.  

It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.

It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

Crowfoot Quotes

Linking to...

All That Glitters...

...is not gold.

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Linking to...

Another Spot of Color...

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,

in which you can walk with love and reverence."

Henry David Thoreau

This has been an unusual Fall...spots of color here and there, 

the main areas of color changing too fast...

leaves turning brown and dropping too quickly...

But then there's a spot like this one...

Linking to...

A Golden Moment of Time...

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us,

and we see nothing but sand;

the angels come to visit us, 

and we only know them when they are gone."

George Eliot

Linking to...

Our Little Corner of the World...

"October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.

It is the distant hills once more in sight, 

and the enduring constellations above them once again."

Hal Borland

This year's fall color is not quite as spectacular as last year...

but it's cropping up all over...

this is in our "back forty"!!!

A Flower of the Field...

"Nothing is more fleeting than the external form,

which withers and alters like the flowers of the field 

at the appearance of autumn."

Umberto Eco

I didn't recognize the name Umberto Eco so I checked wikepedia...

He's a 20th/21st Century philosopher and writer...

You might recognize the name of his first novel, The Name of the Rose...

It was made into the movie of the same name starring 

Sean Connery and Christian Slater...

Saw the movie...didn't read the book!!!

I'm linking to...

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Bridgeport Gothic...

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."

Soren Kierkegaard

Linking to ....
Straight Out of the Camera...

and the Weekend in Black and White....

Autumn's Flowers...

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

Albert Camus

Or in this case...the autumn flower is offering a second spring....

Linking to I Heart Macros (on Sunday!)...