daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Friday, July 31, 2015

July 31, 2015





Wind does not discriminate—it touches everyone, everything. He liked that about wind.

- Lish McBride, Necromancing the Stone

Thursday, July 30, 2015

July 30, 2015




Water is the driving force in nature.

- Leonardo da Vinci

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

July 29, 2015




On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

- Jules Renard

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

July 28, 2015





It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

- John Ruskin

Monday, July 27, 2015

July 27, 2015




The poetry of the earth is never dead.

- John Keats

Sunday, July 26, 2015

July 26, 2015



The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

- Dodie Smith

Saturday, July 25, 2015

July 25, 2015





The water is your friend. You don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move.

- Aleksandr Popov

Friday, July 24, 2015

July 24, 2015




A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be over-sophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

- Clifton Fadiman

Thursday, July 23, 2015

July 23, 2015




Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.

- Tim O'Reilly

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

July 22, 2015




My head says go to the gym, my heart says eat more ice cream.

- Author Unknown

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

July 21, 2015





The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

- Nhat Hanh

Monday, July 20, 2015

July 20, 2015






This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

- Dennis Rodman

Sunday, July 19, 2015

July 19, 2015




You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

- Desmond Tutu

Saturday, July 18, 2015

July 18, 2015





The highest happiness on earth is marriage.

- William Lyon Phelps

Friday, July 17, 2015

July 17, 2015





In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.

- Abram L. Urban

Thursday, July 16, 2015

July 16, 2015




The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

- Laurie Colwin

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

July 15, 2015




A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.

- Richard Avedon

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

July 14, 2015



I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

- Yahya Jammeh

Monday, July 13, 2015

July 13, 2015



The secret garden is always open now. Open, and awake, and alive. If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

- The Secret Garden

Sunday, July 12, 2015

July 12, 2015





There is such a special sweetness in being able to participate in creation.

- Pamela S. Nadav

Saturday, July 11, 2015

July 11, 2015




We are members of God’s family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.

- Lailah Gifty Akita

Friday, July 10, 2015

July 10, 2015



Live every week like it's Shark Week.

- 30 Rock

Thursday, July 9, 2015

July 09, 2015





Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

- Joyce Meyer

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

July 08, 2015





A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

- Jack Horner

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

July 07, 2015




When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

- Harvey Mackay

Monday, July 6, 2015

July 06, 2015





Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

- Adora Svitak

Sunday, July 5, 2015

July 05, 2015




What does a frog say when it sees somethin' great?

- Toadly awesome!

Saturday, July 4, 2015

July 04, 2015




You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

- Robin Williams

Friday, July 3, 2015

July 03, 2015



If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

- Mike Ditka

Thursday, July 2, 2015

July 02, 2015




When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels.

- The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

July 01, 2015




I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

- Author Unknown