Get Out and Vote

 Happy Voting Day everyone from my city to yours! I hope you all get out and cast Your vote. Your Voice! 

And it's not just about selecting a president or a senator there are vital, and important votes like for approval of school districts, referendum revenue authorizations, and your ballot may hold local issues that affect everyone.

 Our Choice. Our Voice.

"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision, if they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."

Abraham Lincoln

Know this every election no matter what we're voting for is determined by those who show up and vote.

If you haven't voted yet what's keeping you?

Do take care of you.

 

Cooking is our November theme for City Daily Photo

 Welcome to my post for City Daily Photo  

and our November theme is cooking. 

I'm hoping this theme stands out, to honor some family and friends as well as my a few Farmington Lions, a club that I'm proud to be a part of, serving community in every way we can. Also, a shout-out to my Fire-Fighting sons that on occasion have been forced to put their cooking on hold as they rush off to a call as duty comes first even in cooking.

Whatever our souls are made from, we answer our call.

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." 

Harriet Van Horne

A Family Moments.

"Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy, and cooking done with care is an act of love."

Moments from my Farmington Lions Club in Minnesota cooking for our community,

"Cooking is a way to celebrate the beauty and diversity of the natural world."

"Cooking with kids is not just how ingredients, recipes and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment and creativity."

Guy Fieri 

Thank you for taking time to visit and gift me with comments!

Enjoy your cooking moments and take good care of you.

Autumn in Alabama

Welcome to some city streets from my recent visit to Alabama, Old Historic Madison, Huntsville, Athens and Madison.

Above photo from Greece care of my daughter.

I'm also posting to

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS and City Daily Photo

and a few more southern charmers below.

Lou Lou

Athena

Miss Sparkle

One of my favorite houses on the way to and from my granddaughter's school. There's a old familiar feeling that comes over me anytime I visit places in the south and it feels like home to me.

"He surveyed the lake of grass below, all the dandelions gone, a touch of rust in the trees, and the smell of Egypt blowing from the far east."

Ray Bradbury

and

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."

Ray Bradbury

Some folks gathering for one of the evening tours.

 Downtown Hunstville.

If you can no matter what city you visit put at least one Ghost Tour on your agenda, and it's not just ghost stories but real-life views into how life was way back when on every tour.

Our tour guide and yes, she had a lovely southern accent.

"Life is good in the South, and it's not just the weather. It's the people. Southerners know how to live with an attitude of gratitude. We take things slow, enjoy every day, and make the most of what we have."

Deborah Ford, Grits (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Life

A group of Halloween partiers came strolling by our tour.

Athens, Alabama.

"Snow in the South is wonderful. It's a kind of magic and mystery that it has nowhere else, and the reason is that it comes to people of the South not as a grim, unyielding tenant of Winter's keep, but as a strange and wild visitor from the secret North." 

"Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it." 

Ray Bradbury

A southerner doesn't truly understand cold. 

"If I had to tell somebody who had never been to the South, who had never heard of soul music, what is was, I'd just have to tell him that it's music from the heart, from the pulse, from the innermost feeling. That's my soul, that's how I sing and that's the South."

and where oh where did I take this photo any guesses?

"Grits Pearl of Wisdom #27:

Count your blessings first thing every morning, 

then add to them as the day goes along."

Deborah Ford

I know a good many of you may laugh at this but honestly, give it a try.

"You must write every single day of your life. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads, and may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."

Ray Bradbury

Thanks for stopping by to visit and for your comments.

Take good care of you.

Are You a Misfit or a Rebel

It's possible you can be a misfit and a rebel, or a misfit on your way to becoming a rebel. In any case, be what you may, and remember you have this day to make it what you will. 

Please follow along with me as I roam village streets and avenues taking in views and forever listening.

I'm posting to City Daily Photo

 and SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

"The most important relationship in your life 

is the relationship you have with yourself.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company!"

Diane Von Furstenberg

Don't follow the herd. Breakaway.

"If you're not willing to risk the unusual, 

you will have to settle for the ordinary."

Jim Rohn

 

On taking the driver's seat, do it! Take charge. If not you then who?

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

Honestly that's pretty much all of us really. 

"The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo."

Or do we? Why not be a rulebreaker, a risk taker,

a dream chaser?

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.

"You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward,

And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

It's Who We Are.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do,"

Steve Jobs and my own input.

Step out of your comfort zone.

"The greatest rewards come when you give of yourself. It's about bettering the lives of others, being part of something bigger than yourself and making a positive difference."

Nick Vujicic

 

"Life isn't about having, it's about being."

Nick Vujicic

Thank you so much for stopping by and saying hello!

Take good care of you.