The English Dream

I'm tweeting
this in England!
I typed this
whole thing on
the left side
of the screen.
Recent tweet from Stephen Colbert

For some reason I can’t stop thinking about England and fairy tales.

Apples and Oranges

"It's like comparing apples and oranges"
American idiom

Sometimes I have apples for lunch . Sometimes I have oranges. Let's compare.
Sometimes photography is "real". Sometimes it is "fake". Is it better to be a "purist" or a "cheat"? Are answers really better than questions? I'm really getting lost here. Can you find the oranges in the picture below? You can "cheat" and see some real fruit by putting your cursor over an orange if you can find one.

This weeks theme for Corner View is "what's for lunch". Let's see what's cooking in the blogs below. Thanks to Francesca for hosting, Dorte for choosing the theme and Jane for getting this whole thing started.

francesca, jane, theresa, ian, joyce, isabelle, kari, jgy, lise, otli, dorte, skywriting, tikjewit, sophie, daan, wander chow, kelleyn, sammi, anna,  kenza, rosamaría, victoria, mlle paradis, tzivia, tania, nadine, cate, cole, ibb, kasia, juniper, flowtops, valerie, robida

Discovery

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust 1871-1922

Still Nothing

“In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.”
Ellen DeGeneres 1958-

There was light… and shadow…. and lines… and shapes… and nothing.

From the Inside Out

“Smile, breathe and go slowly”
Thich Nhat Hanh 1926-

Looking out a window in Wat Ou Sai Kham in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Chicken Dog

“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.”
Samuel Butler 1835-1902

It may look a little foolish but everyone and almost every dog had fun at this year’s Butter and Eggs Day parade in Petaluma.

Recycle the Bicycle

“Trash has given us an appetite for art”
Pauline Kael 1919-2001

This is a trash-can enclosure made from old bicycle parts
that I saw on the streets of Tucson.

Home

“There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster 1838-1912

Somewhere under the rainbow… this is my wife returning to our home in California.
I used this photo for my very first post on this blog. There’s more info over there about the home and the rainbow.

I think of home as largely a state of mind which is why this photo is not “real”. The home is real, the rainbow is real, my wife is real (really real). However, there were some telephone wires and cars in the driveway that I removed from reality. You can see the original photo by placing your cursor over the bottom part of the picture.

Click here if you want to see more of my street... telephone wires, cars, rainbow and all.

This weeks theme for Corner View is "home". There's someplace like home if you go to the blogs below. Thanks to Francesca for hosting and Jane for getting this whole thing started.

francesca, jane, theresa, ian, joyce, isabelle, kari, jgy, lise, otli, dorte, skywriting, tikjewit, sophie, daan, wander chow, kelleyn, sammi, anna,  kenza, rosamaría, victoria, mlle paradis, tzivia, tania, nadine, cate, cole, ibb, kasia, juniper, flowtops, valerie, robida

Most Beautiful

“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.”
Wallace Stevens 1879-1955

Don't Ask

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
Anatole France 1844-1924

This wooden path leads to the edge of America.

Time

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
Albert Einstein 1879-1955

This is twenty five seconds happening at once on the California coast.

This weeks theme for Corner View is "time". There's more time on the blogs below. Thanks to Dorte for the theme and Francesca for hosting.

francesca, jane, theresa, ian, joyce, isabelle, kari, jgy, lise, otli, dorte, skywriting, tikjewit, sophie, daan, wander chow, kelleyn, sammi, anna,  kenza, rosamaría, victoria, mlle paradis, tzivia, tania, nadine, cate, cole, ibb, kasia, juniper, flowtops, valerie

Thinking Pink In A Thailand Taxi

"We are all pink on the inside. The beauty is in our differences."
Pink 1979-

These two shots were taken within five minutes of each other. The lotus flowers were photographed at the Jim Thompson house in Bangkok. The portrait of the taxi driver with his beads and amulets was taken on the way back to our hotel.

Foolish Or Wise

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
William Blake 1757-1827

Another psychological test- Is it the fool or the wise man
that looks at this tree and sees a cow?