daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

May 31, 2023

A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.

- Beth Ditto

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

May 30, 2023

The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.

- Elizabeth Lawrence

Monday, May 29, 2023

May 29, 2023

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

- Charles Stanley

Sunday, May 28, 2023

May 28, 2023

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

- E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

Saturday, May 27, 2023

May 27, 2023

Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.

- Rodney Frelinghuysen

Friday, May 26, 2023

May 26, 2023

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

- Jim Rohn

Thursday, May 25, 2023

May 25, 2023

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

- Chuck Jones

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

May 24, 2023

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

- Neil LaBute

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

May 23, 2023

Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym.

- Bill Nye

Monday, May 22, 2023

May 22, 2023

Even when it's raining, the sunshine is still there.

- Clare Josa

Sunday, May 21, 2023

May 21, 2023

When your environment is clean you feel happy motivated and healthy.

- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

Saturday, May 20, 2023

May 20, 2023

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

- Chris Gardner

Friday, May 19, 2023

May 19, 2023

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

- Rumer Godden

Thursday, May 18, 2023

May 18, 2023

Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.

- Will Rogers

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

May 17, 2023

May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.

- E.E. Cummings

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

May 16, 2023

Everything you lose is a step you take So make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it You've got no reason to be afraid You're on your own, kid Yeah, you can face this You're on your own, kid You always have been

- Taylor Swift, "You're On Your Own, Kid"

Monday, May 15, 2023

May 15, 2023

The quick and easy way is to make sugar cookies from a sugar cookie mix and just cut open a packet of chai tea and pour it into the batter as you make it. Cause you’re busy and want making cookies to be a chill part of your day. Pow. Done. OR If you want to make the cookies from scratch (that’s what I did for the 1989 Secret Sessions), you can use this recipe I found on a baking blog I like.

- Taylor Swift

Sunday, May 14, 2023

May 14, 2023

A bad attitude is like a flat tire. If you don’t change it, you won’t go anywhere.

- Joyce Meyer

Saturday, May 13, 2023

May 13, 2023

Too much of anything is the beginning of a mess.

- Dorothy Draper

Friday, May 12, 2023

May 12, 2023

It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.

- Milton Berle

Thursday, May 11, 2023

May 11, 2023

The U.S. cannot prepare for these inevitable crises if it returns to normal, as many of its people ache to do. Normal led to this. Normal was a world ever more prone to a pandemic but ever less ready for one. To avert another catastrophe, the U.S. needs to grapple with all the ways normal failed us.

- Ed Yong, "How the Pandemic Defeated America," The Atlantic

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

May 10, 2023

For safety, the helmet is the most important equipment to protect your noggin.

- David Chan

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

May 09, 2023

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

- William Blake

Monday, May 8, 2023

May 08, 2023

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.

- Author Unknown

Sunday, May 7, 2023

May 07, 2023

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

- Coco Chanel

Saturday, May 6, 2023

May 06, 2023

Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.

- Robert Greene

Friday, May 5, 2023

May 05, 2023

Thank you, yard sales, for being the perfect way to say to your neighbors: We think we're important enough to charge money for our garbage.

- Jimmy Fallon

Thursday, May 4, 2023

May 04, 2023

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

- John Green

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

May 03, 2023

The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.

- Alexis Stewart

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

May 02, 2023

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

- Venus Williams

Monday, May 1, 2023

May 01, 2023

By the time you read this letter, these words will be those of the past. The me of now is gone.

- Fennel Hudson