Be Adventurous and Critters

Welcome to all on this 30th of November.

Thanksgiving is behind us and Christmas festivities are beginning once again all over the world. Please share a favorite festivity of yours in my comments.

I'm with you every step of the way.

Especially when it means running away on an adventurous trail.

"Never say 'no' to adventures.  Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life."

Ian Fleming

Nobody enjoys dull. Shoot for Razzle-Dazzle.

....and all through the house music played and upstairs they were busy decorating this year's Christmas tree.

Welcome to 

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and City Daily Photo

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Be empty of worrying.

 "Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. Or better yet, take a ride on the moon."

Rumi and me reflection.

When feeling blue, think/read/feel/smell/see happy things.

Two of my daughter's favorite things.

"It's always better to be doing."

Garth Nix

"Respond to every call that excites your spirit."

Photo taken by my daughter and it's one Huntsville tradition I haven't experienced for myself yet, although our Arboretum features these lovely outdoor lighting experiences too and, they are also a magical experience not to miss.

"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"

Garth Nix quotes

Love only grows by sharing. 

You can only have more love for yourself by giving it away to others.

Yes, as a matter of fact I love the Grinch.

"It came without ribbons it came without tags. 

Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store."

 

A jolly-good-feeling makes everything better.

"Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be." Dan Gutman

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

William Arthur Ward

"Every person who makes a snowman, has a friend, and there's always someone else somewhere carving theirs as well. All though they may be worlds away from us, we know that together we're all making a confidante within our hearts."

"There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play."

Rumi

Thank you for stopping by and enjoy your adventures 

and what we do alone can so often be so much more 

memorable with others.

and take good care.

Speed Hump

I'm posting to 

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(and other creatures)

and a few Halloween favorites.

I'm also posting to City Daily Photo.

I don't know about you, but I enjoy the imaginations of others. 

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind."

Wayne Dyer

"At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves."

 Angela Duckworth

A great lesson was hopefully learned here. 

Athena somehow managed to get her bone stuck in her mouth and thankfully it all turned out well!

"Have a fierce resolve in everything you do. Demonstrate determination, resiliency, and tenacity, do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses. And, finally, use mistakes and problems as opportunities to get better - not reasons to quit."

Angela Duckworth

 

"The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

Never stop learning because life never stops teaching."

"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."

"When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace."

Wayne Dyer

"You can't reach for anything new if your hands are full of yesterday's junk."

Monica Coulter

"When you change the way, you look at things, the things you look at change."

Wayne Dyer quotes'

"What we accomplish in the marathon of life depends tremendously on our grit - our passion and perseverance for long term goals."

Angela Duckworth

Thanks for stopping in and take good care of you.

So, roll up your sleeves and get to work.

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

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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.