daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

October 15, 2025

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

- William Arthur Ward

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

October 14, 2025

History is but a collection of epitaphs.

- Elbert Hubbard

Monday, October 13, 2025

October 13, 2025

The sound of rain needs no translation.

- Alan Watts

Sunday, October 12, 2025

October 12, 2025

A rainy night is the world whispering in soft tones.

- Dean Koontz

Saturday, October 11, 2025

October 11, 2025

We must find the book, brew the potion and suck the lives out of the children of Salem before sunrise. Otherwise, it’s curtains. We evaporate! We cease to exist! Dost thou comprehend?

- Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus

Friday, October 10, 2025

October 10, 2025

I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.

- Sue Perkins

Thursday, October 9, 2025

October 09, 2025

Before Columbus, there was Leif — the Viking who listened to stories of strange lands and dared to see them for himself.

- Michael Crichton

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

October 08, 2025

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

- Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

October 07, 2025

Sunrise looks spectacular in nature; sunrise looks spectacular in the photos; sunrise looks spectacular in our dreams; sunrise looks spectacular in the paintings, because it really is spectacular!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

Monday, October 6, 2025

October 06, 2025

Every face tells a story — a portrait just listens.

- Annie Leibovitz

Sunday, October 5, 2025

October 05, 2025

Penguins are the most human of all the birds — they’re dignified, serious, and awkwardly charming.

- David Attenborough

Saturday, October 4, 2025

October 04, 2025

So you don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe And you’re never gonna wanna I took her pearls of wisdom Hung them from my neck

- Taylor Swift, "The Life of a Showgirl"

Friday, October 3, 2025

October 03, 2025

Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes

- Taylor Swift, "The Fate of Ophelia"

Thursday, October 2, 2025

October 02, 2025

Old friends are like tattered jeans — comfortable and full of stories.

- Bruce Springsteen

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

October 01, 2025

Recipes are like road maps — they point you in a direction, but you don’t have to take every turn.

- Alice Waters

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

September 30, 2025

And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.

- Oscar Wilde

Monday, September 29, 2025

September 29, 2025

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

- Ellen Parr

Sunday, September 28, 2025

September 28, 2025

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

- Ansel Adams

Saturday, September 27, 2025

September 27, 2025

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday - unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour.

- Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon

Friday, September 26, 2025

September 26, 2025

Fairs are the essence of rural America: livestock, laughter, and the smell of fried dough in the air.

- Bill Bryson

Thursday, September 25, 2025

September 25, 2025

The Oreo cookie: the original double-stuffed happiness.

- Oreo Advertising

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

September 24, 2025

Jane Austen writes not about the great world, but about the small world that surrounds her, and in Pride and Prejudice, she captures it perfectly.

- Anthony Trollope

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

September 23, 2025

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

- Jack Welch

Monday, September 22, 2025

September 22, 2025

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side! The all-time most well-known joke in the American joke book, having existed in some form since at least 1847, when it first appeared in print in The Knickerbocker, a literary magazine in New York City. In its original form, it was meant as a sort of anti-humor - there is the expectation of an unexpected twist, or a clever riddle-like answer, which is then subverted by the matter-of-fact answer.

- Theodore Roosevelt Center.org

Sunday, September 21, 2025

September 21, 2025

The world is made of stories, and LEGO bricks help you tell them.

- Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen

Saturday, September 20, 2025

September 20, 2025

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots — but you have to play the ball where it lies.

- Bobby Jones

Friday, September 19, 2025

September 19, 2025

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

- Audrey Hepburn

Thursday, September 18, 2025

September 18, 2025

A crane is only as strong as its hook, and the hook is only as strong as the steel from which it is made.

- Engineering Proverb / Attributed in industrial manuals

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

September 17, 2025

AI is likely to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity.

- Stephen Hawking

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

September 16, 2025

Golf is a game of endless practice and endless frustration.

- Bobby Locke

Monday, September 15, 2025

September 15, 2025

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

- James Cash Penney

Sunday, September 14, 2025

September 14, 2025

Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room.

- Yosa Buson

Saturday, September 13, 2025

September 13, 2025

To reach a port we must set sail — sail, not tie at anchor — sail, not drift.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Friday, September 12, 2025

September 12, 2025

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.

- Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas

Thursday, September 11, 2025

September 11, 2025

The spectrum of light is a reminder that beauty exists in every shade and angle.

- Rachel Carson

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

September 10, 2025

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

- Bill Watterson

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

September 09, 2025

Technology should fit into life so naturally that you barely notice it, yet it makes everything easier.

- Ray Kurzweil

Monday, September 8, 2025

September 08, 2025

A spider spins its web, not knowing if anyone will notice its artistry.

- Carl Jung

Sunday, September 7, 2025

September 07, 2025

Each photograph is a return to a moment that will never come again.

- Kate Morton

Saturday, September 6, 2025

September 06, 2025

It’s not easy being green.

- Kermit the Frog

Friday, September 5, 2025

September 05, 2025

Sewing mends more than just fabric; it mends the soul.

- Louisa May Alcott

Thursday, September 4, 2025

September 04, 2025

There is something magical about running through a sprinkler, like chasing tiny rainbows.

- Rachel Wolchin

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

September 03, 2025

Riding the school bus is one of the first adventures a child has on their own.

- James Preller

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

September 02, 2025

Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine.

- Slovakian proverb

Monday, September 1, 2025

September 01, 2025

The body heals, but the memory of the pain leaves a mark.

- Haruki Murakami

Sunday, August 31, 2025

August 31, 2025

Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.

- Martin Scorsese

Saturday, August 30, 2025

August 30, 2025

The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

- John Rousmaniere

Friday, August 29, 2025

August 29, 2025

A man who keeps his car clean, keeps his life in order.

- Carroll Shelby