Shouldn’t Everyone Be Like This??

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
- Edith Sitwell

Spring Has Sprung

Various of the yard denizens:




















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Lying Down on the Job!

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Dog on a (Little) Deck

The furry brown dog on Her Little Deck, where she’s relegated when the front porch is being worked on.




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And You Thought Modern Politics Was Dangerous?

From Quotes of the Day, today:

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
- Will Rogers

Daffy?nition

From Quotes of the Day, today:

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Interrupted Stroll

Mazda, having stopped in the middle of an afternoon stroll for a moment in the sun.




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Drum!

From a booth at the Art & Wine Festival.




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Still Waters

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

Who is it that can make muddy water clear? No one. But left to stand, it will gradually clear of itself.
Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching

We Have Met the, Umm, Er…

From Quotes of the Day, today:

We are the people our parents warned us about.
- Jimmy Buffett

Locating Speech

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
- John Andrew Holmes

Rain Numbers - 6 May 2009

.01", for today
1.35", for the storm
1.35", for the month
37.91", for the (rain) year

Bumper Snicker

Spotted on a Prius in the parking lot at Johnnie’s this afternoon.

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Achievement

From Quotes of the Day, today:

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee

Rain Numbers - 5 May 2009

.19", for today
1.34", for the storm
1.34", for the month
37.9", for the (rain) year

Rain Numbers - 4 May 2009

.06", for today
1.15", for the storm
1.15", for the month
37.71", for the (rain) year

Rain Numbers - 3 May 2009

.23", for today
1.09", for the storm
1.09", for the month
37.65", for the (rain) year

Rain Numbers - 2 May 2009

.01", for today
.86", for the storm
.86", for the month
37.42", for the (rain) year

Rain Numbers - 1 May 2009

.85", for today
.85", for the storm
.85", for the month
37.41", for the (rain) year