2-9-08-- saturday
seen on franklin street

"first things first,
but not necessarily in that order."

-- doctor who

2-8-08-- friday
a new bakery has come to town:
"sugarland: because life is sweet."

"HOT COOKIE HAPPY HOUR!
Monday - Friday every hour at
3:30 4:30 5:30 and 6:30
chocolate chip & oatmeal or whatever else Katrina feels like making!
free delivery within 10 miles
for all orders over $50
scooter delivery coming soon!"

-- sugarland menu

2-7-08-- thrusday

"when you do the common things in life
in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world."

-- george washington carver

2-6-08-- Wednesday
In memory of Maharish Mahesh Yogi

"...Far from leading to worldly renunciation, the call to Transcendental Meditation he saw was central to the message of the Bhavagad-Gita and represented a 'dynamic philosophy' intended to 'inspire a disheartened man and strengthen a normal mind ... he who practices Transcendental Meditation and becomes acquainted with the inner divine consciousness truly enjoys the greatest fruits of action in the world.'

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, born around 1918;
died February 5 2008"

Malise Ruthven
Wednesday February 6, 2008
Guardian Unlimited - obituary

2-5-08-- tuesday
incredibly balmy weather had folks outside in shirtsleeves tonight at a new restaurant in town.

“finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. tomorrow is a new day. you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

-- emerson

2-4-08-- monday


"a journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step."

-- lao-tzu

2-3-08-- sunday
a favorite breakfast diner since 1972
ye olde waffle shop

"sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-- lewis carroll

2-2-08-- saturday
under the morehead-patterson bell tower -- carolina blue!

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-- by Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

-- Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech

2-1-08-- friday
nearly an inch of rain fell today, bringing us some moisture in the middle of a major drought. here a residence hall is reflected in a puddle on campus.

"did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real,
and you're just a reflection of him?"

-- calvin and hobbes

1-31-08-- thursday
the first bloom - found on campus today!!

"the flowers of late winter and early spring
occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size."

-- gertrude s. wister

1-30-08-- wednesday
winter garden

"it is my nature that makes me love you often,
for I am love itself.

it is my longing that makes me love you intensely,
for I yearn to be loved from the heart.

it is my eternity that makes me love you long,
for I have no end."

how god answers the soul - mechthild of magdeburg - 13th century

1-29-08-- tuesday
a fire truck shoots through the intersection with sirens blaring (and yes, the fire trucks in chapel hill are carolina blue!)


"the most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire."

- leigh hunt

1-28-08-- monday
at the food coop.

"food is an important part of a balanced diet."

-- fran lebowitz

1-27-08-- sunday

"everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

-- albert einstein

1-26-08-- saturday
happy birthday to my youngest!! (missing you!)


"I saw the angel in the marble
and carved until I set him free."

-- michelangelo

1-25-08-- friday
craft gallery window at night.

"angels descending, bring from above,
echoes of mercy, whispers of love."

-- fanny j. crosby

1-24-08-- thursday

"nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride."

-- john f. kennedy

1-23-08-- wednesday


"if truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?"

-- lily tomlin

1-22-08-- tuesday
from this morning- a tad of snow left on the ground.

"landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass."


-- alexandria david-neel

1-21-08-- monday

"the white light streams down to be broken up
by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow."

charles r brown

1-20-08-- sunday
it's a dog's life #15
once again, on the wrong side of the door...

"let us, then be up and doing,
with a heart for any fate;
still achieving, still pursuing,
learn to labour and to wait."

-- henry wadsworth longfellow

1-19-08-- saturday SNOW!! and we even have some still on the ground! "being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -- lao-tzu for more snow photos click here

1-18-08-- friday
my girls... packing to head back to college...

"there are people whom one loves immediately and forever. even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough."

-- nancy spain

1-17-08-- thursday
it's a dog's life #14
premium post processing of a puppy photo


"creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
art is knowing which ones to keep."

-- scott adams

1-16-08-- wednesday

"work is love made visible."

-- kahlil gibran

1-15-08-- tuesday


"when written in chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

john f. kennedy, address, 12 april 1959

1-14-08-- monday
it's a dog's life #13

"properly trained,
a man can be dog's best friend."

-- corey ford

1-13-08-- Sunday
it's a dog's life #12
under foot.

"scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job."

-- franklin p. jones

1-12-08-- Saturday
it's a dog's life #11
waiting for food to drop from the stovetop


"sleep 'til you're hungry,
eat 'til you're sleepy."

-- author unknown

1-11-08-- Friday
it's a dog's life #10
recurring theme emerging here? think he's doing the simple life quite well...

"simplify, simplify."

-- henry david thoreau

1-10-08-- Thursday
it's a dog's life #9
not my bed- my daughters let him up on theirs... he's not allowed on mine...!

"don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."

-- pooh's little instruction book,
inspired by a.a. milne

1-9-08-- Wednesday
it's a dog's life #8

"a door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

-- ogden nash

1-8-08-- Tuesday
it's a dog's life #7

"choose a job you love
and you will never have to work a day in your life."

-- confucius

1-7-08-- Monday
it's a dog's life #6

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
writing a poem is discovering."

-- robert frost

1-6-08-- Sunday
it's a dog's life #5

"it happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time…the youth gazed with great delight upon the beautiful face until he caught the maiden’s eye…the mysterious communication that is established across a house between two entire strangers, by this means moves all the springs of wonder."

-- ralph waldo emerson

1-5-08-- Saturday
it's a dog's life #4

"nearly everyone I met, worked with,
or read about was my teacher,
one way or another."

-- loretta young

1-4-08-- Friday
it's a dog's life #3

"be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies."

-- mother teresa

1-3-08-- Thursday
it's a dog's life #2
still have our tree up! time slipping by me so fast!

"a boy can learn a lot from a dog:
obedience, loyalty, and the importance of
turning around three times before lying down."

-- robert benchley

1-2-08-- Wednesday
it's a dog's life

"if you think dogs can't count,
try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket
and then giving fido only two of them."

-- phil pastoret

1-1-08-- Tuesday
happy new year!
me and my daughter (through a fish-eye lense)
after our 17-mile bike ride this afternoon!

"it is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."

-- ernest hemingway