The End

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...and you finish off as an orgasm.”
George Carlin 1937-2008

These Scottish lassies were very cheerful about the coming apocalypse. Judging from their spelling, they were not all that concerned.

Over

"It ain't over till it's over."
Yogi Berra 1925-

Is it over yet? I guess it depends what it is.
I hope your holidays were..are...will be wonderful.

Merry Happy

“A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!”
Charles Dickens 1812-1870

Peace on earth.

All Grown Up

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

Here’s to the child in every one.

Triplets

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

This is the Christmas card photo of our family that we sent out for this year’s December holidays. We really have only one grandson but we can’t get enough of him.

Season's greetings everyone!

This week’s Corner View theme is “the December holidays”. To see more December holiday posts visit the blogs below. Thanks to Theresa for hosting.

jane, theresa, ian, joyce, francesca, isabelle, kari, jgy, lise, otli, dorte, sophie, daan, skywriting, anna,  kenza, rosamaría, victoria, tikjewit, mlle paradis, wander chow, kelleyn, sammi, tzivia

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.

Enjoy

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.”
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955

Or maybe the ones that were blooming last summer.