I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
New WordPress install!
I can’t wait to see what’s under the hood of WordPress. Installed.
Maroon Bells
You are required to take a photo of Maroon Bells when in Aspen.
Maroon Bells, Aspen-Fall 2005
Maroon Bells
Fall Aspen Trees
Aspen Mall
Maroon Creek
Roaring Fork Valley
Maroon Creek and Fall Aspens
It’s the Best Time of Year
Children’s silhouette on the Aspen Mall rope bridge at twilight.
Photo Friday: Darkness
Success
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
LibraryThing Love Fest!
My hat is off to Tim Spalding for a beautiful piece of work. I just added my first 100 books to LibraryThing and I am in LOVE! You have to understand something about me to really get this. I collect Library cards. I read, I read a lot. I currently have 4 library cards and one of those is the King Daddy of all Library cards, a Library of Congress card. I am perversely proud of that fact. My entire life is threaded with books and libraries. Everywhere I have lived I found a library and got a card. Just yesterday I took my 3 and 5 year old to the local library to get their own cards. We spend lots of time there and it was time to get them their own. So now you understand my relationship with books. Maybe, double whatever your thinking and your closer. If you have that kind of relationship with books, you need to go to LibraryThing right now and sign up. You get to catalog 200 books for free or pay $10 to catalog, manipulate, explore, and discover more books than you can imagine, for the rest of your life.
Did you hear me?
FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!!
Get it? Good! Do it now.
Praying Mantis looking for a place to have a family. Check out her abdomen. Handheld Nikon D100
Praying Mantis
Perseverance
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
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