daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Saturday, May 31, 2025

May 31, 2025

Play is the work of the child.

- Maria Montessori

Friday, May 30, 2025

May 30, 2025

It’s-a‑me, Mario!

- Super Mario 64

Thursday, May 29, 2025

May 29, 2025

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

- Karl Lagerfeld

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

May 28, 2025

You can ask the flowers, I sit for hours Tellin' all the bluebirds, the bill and coo birds Pretty little baby, I'm so in love with you

- Connie Francis, "Pretty Little Baby"

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

May 27, 2025

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

- Carl Sandburg

Monday, May 26, 2025

May 26, 2025

Their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.

- Daniel Webster

Sunday, May 25, 2025

May 25, 2025

Skill in crafting comes from practice, not from dreaming. It’s persistence that refines your art.

- Richard Sennett

Saturday, May 24, 2025

May 24, 2025

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.

- Marie Kondo

Friday, May 23, 2025

May 23, 2025

No rain, no flowers.

- Vi Keeland

Thursday, May 22, 2025

May 22, 2025

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

- J. K. Rowling

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

May 21, 2025

When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.

- Srikumar Rao

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

May 20, 2025

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

- E. B. White

Monday, May 19, 2025

May 19, 2025

What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a 4-leaf clover?

- A rash of good luck.

Sunday, May 18, 2025

May 18, 2025

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

- Pablo Picasso

Saturday, May 17, 2025

May 17, 2025

It’s about glowing lights and small things that are big.

- Markus Zusak, The Messenger

Friday, May 16, 2025

May 16, 2025

Signs are the most direct form of communication. They speak to people in their own language and guide them through the world.

- Douglas Leigh, a pioneer in outdoor advertising and neon signage, notably in New York City’s Times Square

Thursday, May 15, 2025

May 15, 2025

Spider silk weighs almost nothing--a thread of silk long enough to loop the Earth would weigh a pound or less--but it is one of the strongest materials on the planet: five times stronger than a strand of steel of the same thickness.

- Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

May 14, 2025

The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there.

- Ellie Rodriguez

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

May 13, 2025

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

- Neil Armstrong

Monday, May 12, 2025

May 12, 2025

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, May 11, 2025

May 11, 2025

Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA.

- Ingvar Kamprad

Saturday, May 10, 2025

May 10, 2025

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

- Winston Churchill

Friday, May 9, 2025

May 09, 2025

When life throws you a rainy day play in the puddles.

- Winnie The Pooh

Thursday, May 8, 2025

May 08, 2025

The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.

- Leslie Nielsen

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

May 07, 2025

If you think rabbit is faster than the turtle, then imagine them swimming instead of racing.

- Shihab Kazi

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

May 06, 2025

In the morning stillness, when the world is just waking up and your conscious mind hasn't fully taken over, you may feel a connection or passageway to another world.

- Padma Lakshmi

Monday, May 5, 2025

May 05, 2025

That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

- Ernest Hemingway

Sunday, May 4, 2025

May 04, 2025

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

- George Lucas

Saturday, May 3, 2025

May 03, 2025

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

- Joe Torre

Friday, May 2, 2025

May 02, 2025

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn’t.

- Gene Simmons

Thursday, May 1, 2025

May 01, 2025

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions—everyone but a school bus driver.

- Laurence J. Peter