Down Low

“Don't hang your hat higher than you can reach”
Belize-an Proverb

A sunhat on a table… very reachable.

You can see this in color over here at the Red Umbrella.

Lights Out

“Rest: the sweet sauce of labor”
Plutarch 46-120AD

I didn’t know they made mini-burqas for men.

Look

“My last word is that it all depends on what you visualize.”
Ansel Adams 1902-1984

Changes

“When the music changes, so does the dance”
African Proverb

And so does the instrument. This is guy from The Urban Funk Machine is rocking out with an iPad.

After Light

"Why is it called 'after dark' when it really is 'after light'?"
George Carlin 1937-2008

And why is everyone walking in the same direction?

Some Degree

“All art is an abstraction to some degree.”
Henry Moore 1898-1986

San Jose street photography

First of All

“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

Happy New Year! Be careful out there.

Modern Art

“Do not strive to be a modern artist.
It's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being."
Salvador Dali 1904-1989

Shadows and shapes and angles and reflections and light and dark-
a small section of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Experience

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881-1955

Looking towards the heavens in Taos, New Mexico

Enough Said

“Every answer you ever need lies within your own silence..”
Ian Tucker

A Requirement

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.”
Mignon McLaughlin 1913-1983

This is my daughter Shannon and some guy named John. They’re
getting married next year! They announced it on Thanksgiving
and this is the picture I took a few minutes later. I cropped off
the ring because it was blinding me. Woo hoo!

Said and Done

“I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
Oscar Wilde 1854-1900

This sign was posted outside a local church. The quote is attributed to Lou Holtz,
the football coach although some say it originally came from Alfred E Neuman.
What, me worry?

By the Sea

“Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-1892

This view by the sea was taken along beautiful 17 mile Drive in Monterey.

This weeks theme for Corner View is "by the sea". You can see more sea in the blogs below. Thanks to Francesca for hosting, Lisa 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

Long Ago

“Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit;
a rich monument is an embroidered one”
Thomas Fuller 1608-1661

This dolmen in County Clare Ireland may not be fancy but it has
stood the test of time. It is believed to date back to 2500 BC.

Sweet's The Air

“My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.”
Dorothy Parker 1893-1967

Looking up from Death Valley.

Falling

“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”
Jon Bon Jovi 1962-

Have You Herd?

“If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then
to make sure it's still there.”
Texas Bix Bender

It was here a minute ago.

No Hurry

“Nature does not hurry,
yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu

This is a small section of Bridal Vail Falls, part of the slow reconstruction
of Yosemite Valley.

Drudgery Appreciation Day

“Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind,
as harrowing and planting those of the earth”
Margaret Fuller 1810-1850

This is a section of a farm on the central California coast. Plastic sheeting is used to help start the crops from seed.

Just Looking

“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”
Brooks Atkinson 1894-1984

There’s always something to find. This is a bit of grass in front of a garage door but to me it seemed like fireworks. I like the contrast between the formal one after the other black lines on the garage door and the explosion of light lines in the grass.