Critters and Sepia on Saturday

Welcome to 

"Life, we understand it differently at different stages. It's what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable.  There is a lot of freedom in that, because you realize you can go back to what you did such a long time ago. You can talk with the dead, talk with your lost self, your disappeared self, and you can visit those places again, and understand it differently. That makes a huge difference." Jeanette Winterson

SEPIA SATURDAY

"Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer."
Walter De Mulder
People and critters it's his thing.
You'll be gifting yourself by viewing this video of
Walter's work.
Such a feel of human/animal spirit in every photograph.
critters abound too.
Seeing LIFE through his lens.

Our theme photo for Sepia Saturday this week falls right into
the subject of

Saturday's Critters

On the subject of identifiable places, identifying a place or time without knowing the location or era can make it tricky to determine when and where it's from.

But you'll always capture human/animal spirit.

I wish I had photos to post by Walter De Mulder, but if you viewed the video above you'll treasure his eye/heart for photography.

Photos of just animals are timeless.

Sharing folly together.

"Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody."
Henry David Thoreau

Porches can be just as timeless.
Is this Texas or Minnesota?
Recently or years ago?

The above photo is recent, depicting history, and locating these kinds of places happens to be one of my favorite things to do.  Stepping back in time, watching and listening to historical interpreters spin their story of way back when puts you right back to that era.

Just as long as a cell phone doesn't interrupt the storyteller.

Their locations can be hard to detect.  Would you guess this was taken at the George Ranch Historical Park?  On the porch of the 1830's Jones Stock Farm House, in Richmond, Texas.


Of course I had to throw in another South Dakota critter for you all!

Take good care of you and enjoy every moment through the projector of life as it arrives!

Irish Eyes and Good Fences

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!

Welcome to

GOOD FENCES

"Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter. Lullabies, dreams and love ever after, poems and songs with pipes and drums. A thousand welcomes when anyone comes. That's the Irish for you!"
Irish Saying

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Leprechaun Kiss Me! I'm Irish.

Is that Mr. Peter Rabbit sneaking in with a bag of goodies?

Keep smiling!

Irish eyes are watching over you.

"We all live under the same sky 
but we don't all have the same horizon."
Konrad Adenauer

Fun Critters

I say hooray for the weekend how about you?

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

I could do everyday critters like in this photo below.

Everyone wave to Twig the Fairy.
(The fairy of goodness and laughing)



But what's the fun it that?

Pedal, pedal, wiggle, wiggle, pedal, pedal....

Sweet smiling biker on his critter-accessorized bike!

Yogi Bear gone fishing and Boo-Boo takes a dive.
"After this we'll get us a pic-a-nic basket!"

Careful, Cookie Monster has his mouth opened very wide!



Kodak critter moment.

Mr. Ranger you're not a critter, squeeze over please!

Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear.

"You must give everything to make your life

 as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination." 

Roman Payne

Remember we need to make up that extra hour this weekend
as we move our clocks forward!
Spring forward and enjoy!

Fave Fences of Mine

Not just favorite fences, but their surroundings are very special to me.

Fave Fences on Friday 
for

GOOD FENCES


After work yesterday about 5:30 p.m. at Lake Marion.

Good Fences of Minnesota

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

Maya Angelou

"A ship is always safer at the shore, but that is not what it is built for."
Albert Einstein

The ice is slowly moving out, and the boats will return very, very soon.

Some of you may remember one or all of these next photos from past posts of mine.  

What was. From Summit Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota.

What's coming.

(soon, very soon)

Lake Minnetonka, the ice is out here, spring has arrived!

Summer in Dakota County

Just a few months from now.


"When the world is at your back, and your heart is at your feet, the best way to go is to just be."
Jennifer Megan Varnadore

and take good care of you!
Thanks for stopping by
your visits me the world to me.

Pursed Lips

A magpie tale.
Not, your typical love story.
A mostly wagging tail sort of tale.

created for 

THE MAG

PURSED LIPS

Eyes closed, she kissed her letter of love.
She, infused and shattered by love as her latent love
pining in despair
 emerged in his slippery absence.
Oh where could he be? A wellspring of bondage
for her without his love.


It all began as love at first sight, the perfect man for her.

or so she thought.  

He loved dogs, the more the merrier!

Until, he decided 
no more dogs!

Need I say whose heart was crushed?

What..............?  Her puppy dog cried,
 watching her leave him home alone again,
and again and again.

Always waiting in the house or locked in her car!



What is a dog to do?

How's my scary Gizmo (a gremlin) look?

I could be super-ninja-dog and secretly make a slip from the car.

Ah he finally called her for a hike to the pike. 

Ah, Bright light! Bright light!
Uh oh!
Think dog think.

Three days later,
after their hike to the top of
Pike's Peak.

No really? You say he fell?  To the bottom of Pikes Peak?



Love is worth everything.
Bark! Bark!

Character note- the part of 
her beloved dog was played by Dashiell (aka Dash).
This was his first Magpie performance.
No animals (only bad lovers) were hurt in the making of this tale.

Betcha By Golly - Critters on Saturday

Oh yeah, betcha by golly wow.

it's time again for

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS



There's a spark of magic in your eyes

Candyland appears each time you smile

never thought that fairy tales came true

But they come true when I'm near you

you're a bunny in disguise

Full of wonder and surprise

and betcha by golly, wow

you're the one that I've been waiting for

 forever

and ever will my love for you

 keep growing strong

keep growing strong

If I could catch a falling star

to shine on you so I'll know where you are

Order rainbows in your favorite shade 

to show I love you, thinking of you

write your name across the sky

anything you ask I'll try,  'cause

Betcha by golly, wow!

"You can judge a man's true character

by the way he treats his fellow animals."

Paul McCartney

and how a person plays with their food!

Indulge in a critter-fruit-surprise.

Thanks for stopping by for my critters today. Enjoy your weekend, hug a critter you just met and remember-

the words that inspired my post today can be stuck in your head all day too

if you

Listen to Betcha by Golly, Wow here!

One Old Fence

Welcome 

GOOD FENCES 

family.


"Lighthouses don't go running all over an island 
looking for boats to save, 
they just stand there shining."
Anne Lamott

Fire Island Lighthouse
Long Island, New York

Opened 1826

The year is 1952 and it's time for school to begin again.

This charming old fence surrounds the Fire Island Lighthouse.

Pictured running with his book bag and lunch box in hand is Richard Mahler, his father is the lighthouse keeper and school is a four mile jeep ride away.  

The lighthouse is located on the Great South Bay, in southern Suffolk County, New York on the western end of Fire Island, a barrier island off the southern coast of  Long Island.  The lighthouse is located within Fire Island National Seashore, and just to the east of Robert Moses State Park.

"Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal and glass.  
There's a human story at every lighthouse; that's the story I want to tell."
Elinor Dewire

If you enjoy stories about lighthouses, check out Elinor's blog here.

Figures of Data- Thematic Photographic

Carmi is calling for 

DATA

A brief thought on data and how computers, 
cameras and other devices figure into our world today. 

Note: All images taken by my iPhone.  Go figure, right!

DATA

As our 

THEMATIC PHOTOGRAPHIC

theme.

"The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth,
mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma
of knowledge,
has been replaced by the computers cheap glow,
pesky chirp, and data spillage."
P.J. O'Rouke

This Black and White photo is in honor of,
 and sums up
 my world outside.  
Well played winter.

Note of thanks: To hubby,
 for being a prop-assistant in the making of this post!



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Do what you love.  Love what you do.
 Take your love and kindness everywhere you go.
But mostly, take good care of you.