"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.  If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

~ Warren Buffett

"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.  So there is no need of defining it."  ~ L.M. Montgomery

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
~  Amelia Earhart

"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Source:  Treasury of Wit & Wisdom, 4,000 of the funniest, cleverest, most insightful things ever said.  Reader's Digest.2006.

 

Smokey Hollow Falls, Waterdown, ON

 

 

 

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.

~ Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, st. 178

 

Three Prize Pumpkins

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."  ~ G. K. Chesterton

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."  ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 

"Not all who wander are lost" ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

 

 

 

 

"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."


~ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)  American novelist

"A good photograph is knowing where to stand." ~ Ansel Adams

"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer.  You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things.  But in photography everything is so ordinary;  it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary."

~ David Bailey