daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Monday, November 30, 2020

November 30, 2020

Buddy: I just like to smile! Smiling's my favorite.

- Elf

Sunday, November 29, 2020

November 29, 2020

A cup of kindness that we share with another A sweet reunion with a friend or a brother In all the places you find love It feels like Christmas.

- "It Feels Like Christmas," The Muppet Christmas Carol

Saturday, November 28, 2020

November 28, 2020

Charlie-In-The-Box: Yes. My name is. Rudolph: Don't tell me: Jack. Charlie-In-The-Box: No, Charlie. That's why I'm a misfit toy. My name is all wrong. No child wants to play with a Charlie-In-The-Box, so I had to come here.

- Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Friday, November 27, 2020

November 27, 2020

Clark W. Griswold: [Handing Christmas lights to Russ] Unravel these. We need to check every bulb. [Pulls out a huge tangle of lights] Oop. Little knot here, you can work on that. [Hands it to Russ]

- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Thursday, November 26, 2020

November 26, 2020

Why was it that the sight of water made everything in the world seem okay? She wanted to look at water every day.

- E.C. Diskin

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

November 25, 2020

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

November 24, 2020

If the devil has a pitchfork and the grim reaper has a scythe, agriculture must be a huge industry in the underworld.

- Fuad Alakbarov

Monday, November 23, 2020

November 23, 2020

"“Is this a torture chamber?"" Puck asked eagerly. ""Listen to all the suffering! Isn't it cool?"" ""This is a dental office,"" the receptionist explained. ""People come here to get a healthy smile."" There was another groan. Puck laughed. ""Sure! That guy sounds like he's smiling alright. Are you hiring?”"

- Michael Buckley, Magic and Other Misdemeanors

Sunday, November 22, 2020

November 22, 2020

Feed a dog for three days and he will remember you for three years. Feed a human for three years and he will forget you in three days.

- Author Unknown

Saturday, November 21, 2020

November 21, 2020

A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. Not only because it can always be added to, but because it is already too much. The collector’s need is precisely for excess, for surfeit, for profusion. It’s too much—and it’s just enough for me. … A collection is always more than is necessary.

- Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover

Friday, November 20, 2020

November 20, 2020

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

- George Carlin

Thursday, November 19, 2020

November 19, 2020

Santa! Oh, my God! Santa’s coming! I know him! I know him!

- Elf

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

November 18, 2020

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.

- Oprah Winfrey

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

November 17, 2020

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Monday, November 16, 2020

November 16, 2020

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

- Harlan Miller

Sunday, November 15, 2020

November 15, 2020

But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze.

- Victoria Logue, Redemption

Saturday, November 14, 2020

November 14, 2020

Call them what you want. Garden gnomes. Lawn ornaments. Little evil outdoor statuary hell-bent on world domination. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that, right now, they're hiding in plain sight, pretending to be symbols of merriment and good will.

- Chuck Sambuchino

Friday, November 13, 2020

November 13, 2020

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

- Yotam Ottolenghi

Thursday, November 12, 2020

November 12, 2020

You are not a rug…everyone may try to walk all over you, but you do not have to lie there and take it!

- Linda Poindexter

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

November 11, 2020

If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.

- Robert De Niro

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

November 10, 2020

Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.

- Roman Payne

Monday, November 9, 2020

November 09, 2020

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

- Chad Sugg

Sunday, November 8, 2020

November 08, 2020

Michael: I want it to feed the birds. Mr. Dawes Sr: Fiddlesticks, Boy. Feed the birds and what have you got? Fat birds.

- Mary Poppins

Saturday, November 7, 2020

November 07, 2020

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross, and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

- Mark Haddon

Friday, November 6, 2020

November 06, 2020

In a restaurant, choose a table near a waiter.

- Jewish Proverb

Thursday, November 5, 2020

November 05, 2020

Everyone knows the best time to do laundry is later.

- Emily Hampshire

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

November 04, 2020

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

November 03, 2020

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

- Abraham Lincoln

Monday, November 2, 2020

November 02, 2020

They tell you to turn into a new leaf and then complain about your faded colour.

- Nitya Prakash

Sunday, November 1, 2020

November 01, 2020


I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

- Audrey Hepburn