Where Men are Men

His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows whereabouts he come from and don't seem to matter much. He was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none. He was looking for a Hawken gun, .50 caliber or better. He settled for a .30, but damn, it was a genuine Hawken, and you couldn't go no better. Bought him a good horse, and traps, and other truck that went with being a mountain man, and said good-bye to whatever life was down there below.

Leader of the Band

"His blood runs through my instrument and his song is in my soul. My life has been a poor attempt, to imitate the man. I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band." ~Dan Fogelberg

*9 years ago my life changed. I lost but I also gained. It taught me to live my life, enjoy those around me, and see the world. Time is precious and you never know when God will call you up to Heaven. Old as I am, I still miss my daddy.

In the Hood

Took this photo on my walk on the farm checking fields for weeds. Mt. Hood looked so beautiful with it's new coating of snow. The irrigation wheel lines stand dormant in the field waiting for that first taste of spring.

Good Cheer

In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.

Dōgen Days

All my life perplexed by truth and falsity, right and wrong;
Now amusing myself in the moonlight,
Laughing at the wind,
Listening to the songs of birds –
So many years spent idly contemplating
The immense white layer on the mountains;
This winter, all of a sudden,
I see it for the first time as a snow-mountain.
~Eihei Dōgen

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. ~Izaak Walton

Winter Peeling

I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
~Robert Frost

Klastos

“Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me” ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Technology Killed The.....

This whole time I thought it was Curiosity but I'm beginning to think it's all about technology. Maybe it's the warm radiation emanating off of all the electronics but this cat can't get enough.

Friday Night Lights

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.
~W.B. Yeats

A Walk In the Woods

Would it matter to you
If we just took a walk
To see where this path leads to
Maybe stop in awhile
Lay down, see you smile
Looking up at those clouds in view

It doesn't matter that the sky isn't blue
A walk in the woods will do
Sometimes it's better just being alone
Being alone with you

Lent

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. ~Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

Sounds Like Fun

Happy Year of the Tiger

Saint Valentine

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard

Small Town Saturday Night

Sake, Rye, Stout

Road Trip

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

It's A Small World

I've been lucky to see some great places and even luckier to have friends in places I want to see. I treasure these gifts from Finland, Japan, and New Zealand.

Februarys of Past

February 10, 2008 New Zealand

I think it's going to rain today......

Scarecrows dressed in the latest styles,
the frozen smiles to chase love away.
Human kindness is overflowing,
and I think it's gonna rain today.
~Randy Newman

Donkey Butt Says What?

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~Albert Einstein

The Happy Worker

Happy the man whose work is set
Where tree and hill and cloud are met;
In toil who pleasure can discern
And each new day something new can learn.
~David Hope

I refuse to believe people don't listen to me

How many times do I have to make this point? You cannot wear your pajama pants to town even though they are camouflage. The camo does not "hide" the fact that they are indeed pajama pants. No, they aren't the same thing as sweats, do you work out in your camouflage pjs? I didn't think so. Yes they are different then my yoga pants, the yoga pants don't have easy pee pee access. Perhaps I need to bring in some intervention into this house ~the horror! I don't remember my vows including "love, honor, and cherish even if you end up on the People of Walmart website". Don't push it man!

Every week for some months Miss Agnes Morris left her house in Crail, Fife, and set off down the street with a tin of metal polish and a duster. You see, a neighbor of Miss Morris' was in the hospital, and she wondered if there was something she could do to help. Then she thought--even though the house is closed, at least she could keep the brass doorknob and knocker polished and bright. I don't think she could have hit on a happier idea. For surely nothing proclaims a woman's pride in her home so splendidly as shining brasses. In a way, they're a measure of the woman whose home it is--for you can be sure that if the brasses on the door are kept bright you won't be able to find much fault with the rest of the house. ~The Friendship Book Feb.5, 1972

After a two days of meetings, my friend and I took a stroll through a new shop in town. I love their fanciful things and beautiful displays.

Foggy Day on the Desert

There is beauty in all things.

First day of posting pictures. I am hoping this will inspire me to get my camera out of the case and get snapping. I've missed the simple art of looking for angles.