Six Word Saturday - 20 September 2014

A horse of another color, of course.

My intention for this post, on this balmy, over cast morning- is strictly to be funny!

I'm feeling the mood for grooving on the humorous side of life this morning. Must work on my "upbeat conversation mode" in preparation for our annual Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Reunion Luncheon, which begins at noon today.

SIX WORD SATUDAY

WILL THE LIVE HORSES 

PLEASE SPEAK

Iron horses and cactus

Sedona, Arizona

"Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success." - Dale Carnegie

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." - W.C. Fields



"Please, Percy....change your clothes.  You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse." - Rick Riordan

Antiques and collectibles

Arizona

"It is not good to swap horses while crossing the river." - Abraham Lincoln

"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse." - Ronald Reagan

"Thank you horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse.  What you are is a liar food." - Jimmy Fallon



To see what other people are up to today go here.

Sepia Saturday - Exploring Old and Abandoned - 20 September 2014

Welcome to  Sepia Saturday 

While our theme offers adorable little faces, and a most skeptical kind of housing, I'm interested in a bit more sturdy structure.

OLD MANORS and Such 

Parlange Plantation Manor House 

New Roads, Louisiana

this week for me with SEPIA SATURDAY




"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live." - Lewis Mumford



Every manor should have a unique gate for an entrance.

Hayes Manor

Of course we must take a peek inside lovely, Rockwood Manor.

Rockwood Manor is a 150 year old estate that has now within a public park facility in Wilmington, Delaware.

How about your own manor, built in 1870 and listed on the Preservation Directory?  This Incredible Gothic Revival Facade could be yours for a mere $16,500.  It's located in Oxford, NY. 8 South Washington Avenue.




This stately manor, the Arlington Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi and built by Mrs. Jane White

This manor is featured on the link provided below.  It is now decaying rapidly and sits abandoned.

Click here for Exploring Mysterious Abandoned Mansions.




For other Sepia Saturday Posts go here.

Collecting

Collect Moments not Things

It was a moment from The Hounds and the Baskervilles Thursday morning.

Just BE happy!

"I like to do things quickly, because I'm easily bored." - Karl Lagerfeld

Sharing your muscle power for those you love.

We're washing Aunt Cierra's old car here!  You're never too young to wash a sweet ride like this one!  (Painted by Cierra)



"What I like about photographs is they capture a moment that's gone forever.  Impossible to reproduce."  - Karl Lagerfeld

Okay, yesterday would have been my mother's birthday.  It was a day of great reflection for me. 

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart." - Haruki Murakami

Pictured here is my youngest son sitting with my mother.  Sometimes I wish I could turn back the hands of time and change the way we were when I was little.  We struggled horribly, both us of were quite relentless too.  But a delightful thing happened once I became a mother.  She became the perfect grandmother for all my children, and they loved her dearly.   So through all the years that followed until I read her one last story, and she slipped away, we had a perfect relationship just like mothers and daughters should.   

You can't get those moments back, but the memories of them live on forever.

If you don't have a special place, find one quickly.  Then thank yourself that you did.


"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain.  It's the loneliness of it.  Memories need to be shared."  Lois Lowry, The Giver

If you haven't ever read The Giver, you should.  

Good Fences - #26 - Entryway

GOOD FENCES


Welcome Ye Olde- Entryway!


I like arriving early, before the crowds flock the entryway.

Once we walk through this gate, we escape to another time, quenching our thirst for history.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." -  Soren Kierkegaard

A stone's throw away to paradise, 

awaits in your own space.

"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else." -  Tom Stoppard

Ah yes, we heard their giggles first, even over the noise rising from the football fields behind us.  We knew what was hiding behind this fence.

Secret Garden- Enter here.

"For the entrance is low: we must stoop till we are no taller than children to get in." C. S. Lewis

Entryway, or rather an opening to the Gateway of beauty within the picturesque Black Hills of South Dakota. 

"You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down." - Zig Ziglar

You can check out other Good Fences here.

Autumnus

Welcome!

Please join me while I survey what's left of summer, with a dash of autumn settling across Minnesota ever so gently.

It's always time for rustic metal sculptures.  Suitable for all wind and weather, summer or winter, spring or fall it's always time to celebrate art.

Still holding on!

Just today, certainly not my last mow of the season, but almost.

Yes, as a matter of fact, we have fairies in Minnesota, and other Wee Little Creatures, that also need their own quaint little village.  One such place is just a sprint away from their own Apostle Islands on the south side of the pond.

Once the State Fair comes to a close, Football begins.

Don't chase the ball so long that you lose sight of your surroundings!

Devious plan, that's what it is when autumn attacks my poor little edibles with an early frost.

It just wouldn't be autumn unless there was a gracious and plentiful harvest to last all winter long and of course,  Minnesota's wild turkeys.

In closing-

It's quite surprising with the colder temperatures, and yes frost has fallen several times, and yet it's still a vibrant greenery all around, and just a mere handful of leaves have fallen so far, as yet.

Life is Great!

Thematic Photographic - #309 - In The Pink

Just beyond our doorstep is a sun-filled world waiting for us!

and for this week's theme Carmi is calling for, In the Pink.

First and only day to bloom pictured below.

Pretty in Pink.

In the Pink, brings sunshine to our eyes.

THEMATIC PHOTOGRAPHIC

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard

As it begins to fold.

How about a little evening, In the Pink?

Six Word Saturday - 13 September 2014

Somebody quick bring summer back please!

SIX WORD SATURDAY

Spreading some words we enjoy hearing!

PLEASE DON'T WORRY

 I'VE GOT YOU!

YES, THIS IS MY HAPPY FACE!

Before the howl of winter sets in, call your friends, grab your boat and let's go boating one more time!

"Now this is not the end.  It is not even the beginning of the end.  But it is perhaps, the end of the beginning." - Winston Churchill  

I hope this is the ending of the hint of winter beginning in so many of our worlds this week.

Good Fences #25 - 11 September 2014

Never forget.

Today especially.  Tragedy, has a way of

 bringing people together.

Join me in a perfect place where,

Public Parks are People Places

bringing people together.

The next step is ours.

GOOD FENCES

"No good thing is pleasant to possess without friends to share it." - Senca the Younger

"Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he has created." - Jacob Bronowski

In everything that he creates.

"Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source."- Lord Byron

Together we share the earth.

Earth! We're in it Together video/song can be heard here.

"All peoples are created equal." - Anonymous

Introduce yourself as often as you can.  Make new friends.

"Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep, -for here 

There is such matter for all feeling - Man!

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and a tear." - Lord Byron

For more Good Fences go here.

Can I Make You Laugh

What makes you laugh?

(think about it and please share)

This not a test, it's a quiz.

How does this photo below make you feel?

You may think he's sad, but in reality, he's just hanging out, according to the artist that designed him.

Photo from October 2012

The sculpture Companion (passing through) by the artist KAWS (Brian Donnelly) at the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas photo by Carol Highsmith

About this piece with artist, KAWS, Philly interview here.

For me, someone falling down and getting hurt, emotionally or physically, isn't funny.  How can pain, or humiliation ever be funny?  What makes me laugh or at least smile, is something like the photo below.

Ballerina Clown read here.

Pre Quiz Question- "What has to be broken before it can be used?" (answer at the  bottom)

How about this very creative, artful piece?

 Imagine that you just happened upon this.  Did it make you smile?  I know you'd be worried if you've had a couple too many at the local pub, and you're stumbling around not sure if you're seeing double or just having trouble finding the road.

Ant Farm Cadillac Car Art along Route 66, Amarillo, Texas

read here about Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas

This little guy is a riot!

Somebody has a good sense of humor.  Could you pour me a cup too please?

From a human perspective this is funny.

How about that quiz I promised?  Thought I forgot?  

As promised this is not a test.  It's a quiz, in fact there are two.  Take your pick, or try them both.  You can post your results on Facebook, if you dare.


So, do you want excitingly, defining and exhilarating fun?  Or, some scholarly-learn-about-me fun?

Either way, both are very short.


Are you students ready?

About this Photo and story from MinnPost read here.

Quiz# 1
For a scholarly-learn-about-me fun quiz try this, "Discovering Yourself Quiz" just for you.


Click here to take the "Discovering Yourself Quiz" don't be shy, you might enjoy it.

Okay how about some excitingly, defining and exhilarating fun, try this quiz "Can I Make You Laugh?"

Quiz # 2 (rather clever too)
This next quiz is worthy of a go.
By trying this quiz, Can I Trick You?

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you've enjoyed my unharmful, humorous kind of post today.  

This has been an Alphabe-Thursday assignment for the letter
"Q" as in Quiz.