The Secret Life of Critters

 Good morning, everyone and welcome to another post for

 SATURDAY CRITTER'S  

and I'm also posting to City Daily Photo

Please follow me as I flip through the secret lives of flapping scarecrows of humanity to the rags and riches of dressed-up animals to the wags of love that dogs feel every day.

Three Wise Scarecrows!

 

A Scarecrow's purpose is to protect and not frighten. 

Be a scarecrow of dreams, guarding the seeds of your aspirations from doubt and fear."

You haven't really felt the deep meaning of friendship until you've felt the love of a dog, or cat or any other animal.

My daughter shared some love with photos of Mac and Athena.

One of the deep secrets to life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

Meet Mac and Athena born from the same parents but different litters, and after a whirlwind of play it's time to relax and have comfort.

Dogs know how to live and enjoy life right?

Why dogs bond with other dogs; they share a common language, and communicate through their body language, scent marking and vocalizations, and because they love to play, it makes playtime an essential part of their life. Like humans play teaches us social skills, motor skills and coordination. Besides feeling safe and secure, they thrive on companionship. Dog is man's best friend. 

Dogs are mostly social pack animals thriving off of attention and affection pretty much like most humans.

Meet my Pumpkin friends.

"Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe."

Alan Watts

"In life, like art, there has to be an essential sense of weirdness."

Jo Brunini

"I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."

Lewis Carroll

The joy of living is making little things big.

Some days are meant for play. So, what play do you have in store for today?

Go barefoot in wet sand! 

"The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains and whip up ocean waves, when people crowd into cities or intrude into dazzling jungles." Jay Woodman

From Lake City, Minnesota

Everyday essentials.

"Curiosity, creativity and playfulness."

Thanks for your comments. 

and take good care of you.

Transportation What is Your Story

Posting to City Daily Photo

and our theme for October is Transportation

"Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect like a man, on his own legs, under his own power."

Edward Abbey

Transportation isn't the only glue within our daily lives. We know the importance of getting lost and uncovering some of the best kept secrets in our daily lives, beginning with our form of transportation.

Transportation runs a wild gambit, especially when we transport crucial stories surrounding our daily lives. Come take a bus, car, or perhaps a float to discover the stories in our lives.

So, what is your story?  

"It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story."

Rothfuss

"When we are children, we seldom think of the future. The innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."

Rothfuss

Kids listen up -

 If your Tails a Burnin' Our Wheels are Turnin'.

 A Fire Truck slogan.

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"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts." 

Rothfuss

Cho0se your words carefully.

"Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.

Rothfuss

"It's not only great talking about community service in theory but actually doing it." Transporting our service everywhere we go!

 Adam Gardner

By transporting ourselves to higher places of service and giving.

and with each of those modes of transportation

"Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that."

Erin Morgenstern

Thank you for stopping by and gifting me with your comments.

Enjoy your transportation wherever you go,

 and take good care of you!

Critters on First Day of Autumn

 Happy first day of autumn! Let's bring in some critters for

 SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

and I'm posting to City Daily Photo

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."

 Nikola Tesla

and also,

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle 

Mindset is Everything!

"Outside, it was the perfect air temperature, not too cool and not too warm. It was perfectly still.

The sky was a hazy shade of white peculiar to autumn mornings, and especially this first day of autumn."

 Donna Tartt and Me

"Good morning, Goose!" said the one goose to the other.

And they went on with their day, not even noticing me. 

Is that a hat on your head?

Hello Horsey!

Northfield Minnesota Jessie James Day!

"The people who have closed their eyes and ears to the new opportunity are the people who are actually using their brain very little."

Anuj Jasani

"Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire."

Live from the best ever Minnesota Rennaissance Festival!

From the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden outside The Walker Art Museum

"I would rather sit on/with a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion," Henry David Thoreau

" The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world's oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter."

Shauna Niequist

Artemis really knows how to live each and every day!

"Explore, Experience, then push beyond."

Aaron Lauritsen

Thanks for stopping in and gifting me with your thoughts.

Take good care of you and enjoy this first day of autumn.

Critters in Scandia

 Welcome to my post for

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS 

and to City Daily Photo

Getting to know you, bark! Bark!

 

and kisses!

Yesterday was devoted to romping, roaring, taco-ing and critter hunting at Scandia-Marines Lions 48th Annual Taco Daze event.

Such grace, devotion, determination and hard work for these young adults and their horses.

Hanging with Gnomies!

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."

W. Somerset Maugham

"The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself."

Such a glorious day to be alive and among the vitality, artsy nature of others and their traditions. #BeAdventurous 

"Every animal is a tradition, and together they are a vast part of our heritage as human beings. No animal completely lacks humanity, yet no person is ever completely human."

Boria Sax

"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderations from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

W. Somerset Maugham

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Izaak Walton 

It wouldn't be as great of an event, if it weren't for the many actually thousands and thousands of folks bringing their wit, silliness, and vintage and unusual vehicles of all makes and models to these town gatherings.

"You can do anything in this world if you're prepared to take the consequences."

W. Somerset Maugham

May there be a special Tomte in everyone's lives.

(They're usually hiding)

Sweet little Tomte and all the people who "patter about" your lives, at whatever hour of the day to enrich people's lives and "check on everyone's welfare.

Thank you for stopping by and your wonderful comments that always brighten my day.

Take good care of you and of course your Tomte!

Find Your Beast

Life is better when you're in

BEAST MODE

Welcome to

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

and I'm posting to City Daily Photo

Unleash the beast within you.

"Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it." Nenia Campbell

Trust your gut instincts.

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, 

I'll go to it laughing."

Herman Melville

and I'll make others laugh with me.

How much does a thought weigh?

Don't overload your thoughts. Put s0methings on the backburner.

Great advice from dogs,

"I try all things, I achieve what I can,"

Herman Melville

But know, I prefer treats that are delicious!

Don't be that person who doesn't see the beauty behind every day. Enjoy those simple pleasures in life they say yet, there's more than smelling roses. Scream out to the skies your worrisome fears. Unleash and move on.  Skip following the overtold rules. Fly with the stars. Give away your favorite book and make someone's day. You're on the right path when you move about with feeling. Set forth on your own path, achieve the unachievable that calls to you.

Be the one that bursts out of the crowd.

"You were born an original work of art, Stay original. 

Suzy Kassem

 

The grass on the other side is the same. Trust me on this.

Do what you can, with what you have,

 wherever you are.

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

Helen Keller

"Truth is in things and not in words."

Herman Melville

Together We Can

It's all about teamwork.

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." 

Martin Luther King Jr

 

I'm excited about tomorrow which is adult/family day 

at the Renaissance Festival! 

There's only room for merriment.

"Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side." Richelle E. Goodrich

Life is full of choices so get out there and have a blast doing whatever you're doing.

Our Minnesota State Fair has arrived again! 

Impossible doesn't stand a chance.

"Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from, evidence of wounds, wounds inflicted of mistakes, wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again," Marcia Lynn McClure

So, what plans do you have for this last weekend of August?

Thanks for sharing time with me and gifting me with your thoughts and comments.

Take good care of you.