Laughter Is The Best Medicine / Shake Well Before Use

Written on the back of a rickety jalopy:
"I go happily wherever I am towed"

"It took me fifteen years, to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.” ~ Robert Benchley

"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony." ~ Robert Benchley

Beautiful Leaves

“I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."
~ Leo F. Buscaglia

From My Terrace Garden

"I will be the gladdest thing

Under the sun!

I will touch a hundred flowers

And not pick one."

~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

From My Terrace Graden

'Tis my faith that every flower

Enjoys the air it breathes! "

~William Wordsworth, "Lines Written in Early Spring," Lyrical Ballads, 1798

At the Nursery

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.

~ Mother Teresa

A Day at the Zoo

"Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings."

Evan Esar

“If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay."

~ Bob Dole

My Terrace Garden 2

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

~ Lope de Vega

Enchanting Mystery

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills

When all at once I saw a crowd

A host, of golden daffodils

Beside the lake, beneath the trees

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay

Ten thousand saw I at a glance

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance

~William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," 1804

"A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world" - Leo Buscaglia.

From My Terrace Graden

I will be the gladdest thing

Under the sun!

I will touch a hundred flowers

And not pick one

~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"

From My Collection

Which is loveliest in a rose? Its coy beauty when it's budding, or its splendour when it blows?

George Barlow

My Standard Rose

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
~ George Eliot

Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens
A rose today.
But you will ask in vain
Tomorrow what it is;
And yesterday
It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.- Christina Rosetti

Another of My Roses

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

~ Abraham Lincoln

This is New Hampshire

Strawberry Fields Forever ~ The Beatles

"Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about. Strawberry Fields forever."

That Car

"I am happy to go wherever I am towed" says My Car.
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"What car, what girl, what tree, what curb? What are you talking about? I never left the house. What keys, what crash, how dare you ask? The car is gone - move on (Daddy you'd better move on)" - says Cliff Richard

Reflection

Somewhere in Seattle WA

Red Hot Chili Peppers

".........I heard a little girl

And what she said was something beautiful

To give your love no matter what

Is what she said

I love all of you................."

Words from the song "My friends" by Red Hot Chili Peppers

With My Dear Ones

Gazania in the Pot

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

~ Claude Monet

One Magical Evening

Still Swinging

Swing:
"A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. "
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Another of My Roses

A primrose by the river's brim

A yellow rose was to him

And it was nothing more

William Wordsworth

The Wanderer at Boston Airport

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will lead you there." ~ Unknown

"I did not fully understand the dreaded term "terminal illness" until I saw Heathrow for myself. "~Dennis Potter

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." ~Benjamin Disraeli

My Roses

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds 'round my neck."
Emma Goldman

James Bond

The name's Bond. James Bond.