7-25-09-- saturday
bailey-boy hiding out while the painters work on the deck. (loud noises scare him)
7-24-09-- friday
butterfly fluttering by
"somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. this special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four c's. they are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy."
-- walt disney
7-23-09-- thursday boo hanks, blues musician for 75 years. he talked of picking cotton for half a penny a pound. to hear a song click here to read more: click here
7-22-09-- wednesday
“the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. they must be felt with the heart.”
-- helen keller
7-21-09-- tuesday
summer squash in the garden
7-20-09-- monday
"peace begins with a smile.”
-- mother teresa
2009-7-19- sunday
2009-7-18-- saturday
"life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles."
-- mike greenberg
7-17-09-- friday
“life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.”
-- anonymous
in memory of walter cronkite. "walter knew what news was." bob schieffer
7-16-09-- thursday
"dance till the stars come down from the rafters
dance, dance, dance till you drop."
-- w.h. auden
7-15-09-- wednesday
busy bees
"the sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
-- galileo
7-14-09-- tuesday
early morning fisherman by the pier
7-13-09-- monday
7-12-09-- sunday
7-10-09-- friday
"summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the english language."
-- henry james
7-9-09-- thursday
spending a few days at the beach.
7-8-09-- wednesday
nothing like mud to draw a child: nothing like a child in mud to draw a photographer...
"a three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."
-- bill vaughan
will be off-line for a few days and catch up later...
7-7-09-- tuesday
quick trip to seagrove, nc where there are more than 90 potteries in a 20-mile area. some are eighth and ninth generation potters in a place rich with a 200-year old tradition.
this fellow and his wife have been potters for 20 years, and are fifth generation.
"quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution."
-- will foster
7-6-09-- monday
not your everyday, ordinary cow...
and not your everyday, ordinary sentence...
"from now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
-- sir winston churchill
have an extra ordinary day!
7-5-09-- sunday
nature's fireworks
"to see the summer sky
is poetry, though never in a book it lie -
true poems flee."
-- emily dickinson
7-4-09-- saturday musicians and dancers at the annual festival for the eno-- a highly energetic scottish band-- albannach. to see a video clip of a performance of theirs earlier this year, click here for more info on the festival, click here more shots from the day are now up!
7-3-09-- friday
musicians at a new local outdoor venue- very family friendly
"there are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. there are seven million."
-- walt streightiff
7-2-09-- thursday
musicians on franklin street
"music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-- berthold auerbach
7-1-09-- thursday
"earth laughs in flowers."
-- ralph waldo emerson