daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Saturday, January 31, 2009

January 31, 2009








Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.

- Babs Hoffman

Friday, January 30, 2009

January 30, 2009








You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.

- Author Unknown

Thursday, January 29, 2009

January 29, 2009








There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

- Robert Alden

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

January 28, 2009

It's snowing now
as I write this note.
Little temporal curtains of snow
like pages of paper which
materialize and disappear
into a thousand pixels
They go by along with
the snow showers,
almost horizontal at times,
puffs and pulses,
between the two tenements
little swirls of white.
dancing and falling
to the white below,
accumulating white
where the yard was yesterday
because of the lack of snow
this strange winter
a winter with the first snow
a Valentine's Day Nor' Easter
with snow and sleet, and freezing rain
along the coast
It's snowing still, five hours
since the starting lines of the poem
Cold snow, all silent and white

- Raymond A. Foss, "It's Snowing Now"


Tuesday, January 27, 2009

January 27, 2009








If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

- Anais Nin

Monday, January 26, 2009

January 26, 2009








Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

- Marion Howard

Sunday, January 25, 2009

January 25, 2009









I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

- Andrew Wyeth











The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better America.

- Willie Nelson


Saturday, January 24, 2009

January 24, 2009









The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, "Roads Go Ever On"











Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow.

- Langston Hughes


Friday, January 23, 2009

January 23, 2009








We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.

- Steve Elbert

Thursday, January 22, 2009

January 22, 2009








Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

- Iris Murdoch

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

January 21, 2009








Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are.

- Anonymous

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

January 20, 2009








Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met.

- President Barack Obama's 2008 Inauguration

Monday, January 19, 2009

January 19, 2009








Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

- David Cronenberg

Sunday, January 18, 2009

January 18, 2009








To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth.

- Herbert Spencer

Saturday, January 17, 2009

January 17, 2009








Whenever it's just snow, you're usually OK if you drive slow. But anytime you add sleet or freezing rain into the mix, traction on your car goes to bust. It takes a lot longer to stop, and that's when we run into problems.

- Victor Cruz

Friday, January 16, 2009

January 16, 2009








[talking about Nigel's happiness on a freezing day]
Macy: If only we could harness that hot energy.
Jordan: Yeah, Either that or we could just set his desk on fire.

- Crossing Jordan

Thursday, January 15, 2009

January 15, 2009








I guess I made friends with people who were not too much the party type. But I was never the type of person who would like to party too much. I never felt the urge to do that, I much prefer going downtown for a dinner or a movie. So it didn't matter whether I was younger.

- Sarah Nie

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

January 14, 2009








I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.

- Cameron Diaz

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

January 13, 2009








"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately."

- A.A. Milne

Monday, January 12, 2009

January 12, 2009








With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sunday, January 11, 2009

January 11, 2009









Happy the man, and happy he alone, Who can all today his own; He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

- John Dryden











Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

- Henry Miller


Saturday, January 10, 2009

January 10, 2009








Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Friday, January 9, 2009

January 09, 2009








I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

- Gilda Radner

Thursday, January 8, 2009

January 08, 2009








In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

- Eric Hoffer

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

January 07, 2009








I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking something up and finding something else on the way.

- Franklin P. Adams

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

January 06, 2009








Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our hearts warm when we are lonely.

- Becky Aligada

Monday, January 5, 2009

January 05, 2009








Expensive medicines are always good: if not for the patient, at least for the druggist.

- Russian Proverb

Sunday, January 4, 2009

January 04, 2009








Where the hell have you been?

Riding a llama in Neverland. Where do you think? I was cleaning.

- Will & Grace

Saturday, January 3, 2009

January 03, 2009





I could make a million or wind up broke
Free and easy down the road I go
Can't take it with you when you go so
Free and easy down the road I go
Someday I know it's gonna take me home so
Free and easy down the road I go...

- Dierks Bentley, "Free and Easy Down the Road I Go"

Friday, January 2, 2009

January 02, 2009








It's supposed to be a challenge, that's why they call it a shortcut. If it was easy it would just be the way.

- Road Trip

Thursday, January 1, 2009

January 01, 2009








We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

- Edith Lovejoy Pierce