Monday, August 3, 2015

365 Day 180 -212

Wow, it has been over a month since I last shared my daily photos here. Summer is flying by!! Here are my favorite daily photos from mid summer 2015:)

365 Day 180

“A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.” 
― J.R.R. Tolkien


365 Day 181

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

365 Day 182

“Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.”
― Shel Silverstein

365 Day 183

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller

365 Day 184

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”
― Albert Einstein

365 Day 185

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
― Thomas Paine

365 Day 186

“No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.”
― Toni Morrison

365 Day 187

“When I hold her, it feels like we’ve already lived together, many different lives as different people in other times and places. Somehow our souls end up back in each other’s arms.” ~unknown

365 Day 188

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence

365 Day 189

“Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.”
― Jenny Han

365 Day 190

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence

365 Day 191

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
― Osho

365 Day 192

"'Cause all of me
Loves all of you
Love your curves and all your edges
All your perfect imperfections
Give your all to me
I'll give my all to you
You're my end and my beginning
Even when I lose I'm winning"
-John Legend

365 Day 193

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new. - Ernst Haas

365 Day 194

“The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.”
― Alex Witchel

I turned 33 yesterday. I am so lucky to have these two to celebrate with. They made sure I had the best day ever. We went to see the Minion Movie, when out for Mexican food and ate cupcakes. It was a wonderful day!

365 Day 195

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Hermann Hesse

365 Day 196

“But the truth is, there's little even the most organized people can do to prepare themselves for having children. They can buy all the books, observe friends and relations, review their own memories of childhood. But the distance between those proxy experiences and the real thing, ultimately, can be measured in light-years.”
― Jennifer Senior

365 Day 197

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
― Marcus Aurelius

I almost forgot to take a photo tonight! I made the kids head out to the deck after bath time to take some quick little shots.

365 Day 198

“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

365 Day 199

A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensionality and isolation from everything outside the rectangle, it can create another reality, an emotion that did not exist in the 'true' situation. It's the tension between these two realities that lends it strength. - Richard Kalvar

365 Day 200

“Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I conquered my fear! YES!" and calmly walk away. I was inspired.”
― Nathan Fillion

365 Day 201

“Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

365 Day 202

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde

365 Day 202

"and if you call, I will answer
and if you fall, I'll pick you up"
-Barenaked Ladies

365 Day 203

“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
― George Moore

365 Day 204

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green

365 Day 205

“Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.”
― Nora Roberts

365 Day 206

“We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.”
― Lauren Oliver

365 Day 207

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings

365 Day 208

“Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.”
― Joss Whedon

365 Day 209

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith

365 Day 210

"Bring your love to me
I will hold it like a dandelion
One I want to save, one I want to keep
from the breeze that follows me and no one else"
-The Avett Brothers

365 Day 211

A million tomorrow shall all pass away, 'ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today.- John Denver

365 Day 212

“We live in a world that is beyond our control, and life is in a constant flux of change. So we have a decision to make: keep trying to control a storm that is not going to go away or start learning how to live within the rain.”
― Glenn Pemberton