6-30-09-- tuesday
first butterfly of the season!
"never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."
-- juvenal
6-29-09-- monday
vaudeville comes to carrboro town commons
"laughter is an instant vacation."
-- milton berle
6-28-09-- sunday
"meet the sunrise with confidence. fill every golden minute with right thinking and worthwhile endeavor. do this and there will be joy for you in each golden sunset."
-- alonzo newton benn
6-27-09-- saturday
launching tiny boats with candles on a pond for st johns festival celebration
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we start, as in what direction we are heading."
-- goethe
6-26-09-- friday
"sometimes, in a summer morning... I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie."
-- henry david thoreau
6-24-09-- wednesday
music at dusk
"music is what life sounds like."
-- eric olson
6-23-09-- tuesday
laughing lilies
in memory of ed mcmahon and johnny carson- the passing of a real class act and the marking of the end of an era... thanks for all the laughter!
a youtube clipping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC-25xPmX7o
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z84F6t-26Y&NR=1
6-22-09-- monday another from the hoopers' ball. I have created a gallery of these shots that I am calling "hoop dance painting"-- click here "dancing is like dreaming with your feet!" -- constanze
6-21-09-- sunday
hula-hooping like you've neveer seen it before!
hooping with glow hoops at the hooper's ball.
6-19-09-- saturday
took photos for a friend of his daughter's wedding.
wishing much happiness to rebecca and gabe!!
6-18-09-- friday
opening circle at hooping retreat
6-17-09-- thursday hooping at night with glow/led hoops participating in a hooping workshop in carrboro- for more info click here "to turn, turn will be our delight till by turning and turning we come 'round right" -- simple gifts, a shaker hymn
6-16-09-- wednesday
something different
6-15-09-- tuesday
in the center of things...
6-14-09-- monday
impromptu music with puppet playing cello!
6-13-09-- sunday
double take. new restaurant on franklin street
6-12-09-- saturday
long exposure on a flashing sign that alternated the coffee cup and the word "coffee"- got them both simultaneously!
"if this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
-- abraham lincoln
6-11-09-- friday Lily Pratt, the Chapel Hill Flower Lady "Not only has she been selling her flowers on Franklin Street for half a century, but her family history includes prominent African-American leaders who founded important community institutions in and around Chapel Hill. Born and raised in Orange County, North Carolina, Lily Pratt says she has been growing and selling flowers locally for about fifty years. 'I’ve always enjoyed raising flowers,' she says. 'That’s the main thing, to enjoy what you do.'" To read more of her story, click here
6-10-09-- thursday
magnolia blossom
"begin challenging your own assumptions. your assumptions are your windows on the world. scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."
-- alan alda
6-9-09-- wednesday
at the farmers' market
"do vegetarians eat animal crackers?"
-- author unknown
6-8-09-- tuesday
"what do you suppose?
a bee sat on my nose.
then what do you think?
he gave me a wink
and said, 'I beg your pardon,
I thought you were the garden.'"
-- english rhyme
6-7-09-- monday
catching fireflies at dusk
“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
6-7-09-- sunday
lovely evening in the campus quad
“be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-- dr. seuss
6-6-09-- saturday
date night
“today you are you, that is truer than true. there is no one alive who is youer than you.”
-- dr. seuss
6-5-09-- friday
purple and green
"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."
-- edna st. vincent millay
6-4-09-- thursday
magnolia blossoms after the rain
6-3-09-- wednesday
bringing in the hay
6-2-09-- tuesday
front yard bunny
6-1-09-- monday
one more from the ncaa rowing races
5-31-09-- sunday
still catching up- another from the ncaa races with my daughter's crew team
5-30-09-- saturday
my daughter's crew team - smith college- made it to the ncaa rowing championships on the delaware river! more photos to come...
5-29-09-- friday
my daughter's crew team made it to the ncaa rowing championships on the delaware river! more photos to come...
5-28-09 thursday
baby and bubbles time
I will be off-line for a few days- and catch up soon
5-27-09-- wednesday
at the coffee shop
5-26-09-- tuesday
5-25-09-- monday at the beach-- click here to see more beach shots.
5-24-09-- sunday
at the beach
5-23-09-- saturday
at the beach
5-22-09-- friday
5-21-09-- thursday
"the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. it is the source of all true art and all science. he to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
-- albert einstein
5-20-09-- wednesday
"the temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers."
-- basho
5-19-09-- tuesday
"you can hear the footsteps of god
when silence reigns in the mind."
-- sri sathya sai baba
5-18-09-- monday
"the thing I lack is a cadillac."
-- lyrics by cave catt sammy
5-17-09-- sunday
rainy day
"look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. "
-- betty smith, a tree grows in brooklyn
5-16-09-- saturday
at the farmers' market
"do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-- theodore roosevelt
5-15-09-- friday
"kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."
-- william stafford
5-14-09-- thursday
5-13-09-- wednesday
back-lit leaf
"we have what we seek. it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us,"
-- thomas merton