daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Thursday, July 31, 2025

July 31, 2025

Classic cars are not just transportation—they are rolling pieces of history.

- Jay Leno

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

July 30, 2025

In 1935, the Blake Brothers founded their first ice cream shoppe in Springfield, Massachusetts and named it “Friendly.” The name was a promise that the small ice cream shoppe would be a friendly place for families to enjoy a meal together.

- Friendly’s

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

July 29, 2025

A light bulb wasn’t invented to bring light, but to inspire the mind to think differently.

- Thomas Edison

Monday, July 28, 2025

July 28, 2025

Libraries are the gateways to imagination and knowledge.

- Norman Cousins

Sunday, July 27, 2025

July 27, 2025

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation—experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.

- Paul Prudhomme

Saturday, July 26, 2025

July 26, 2025

A lemonade stand is where young entrepreneurs learn that creativity and hard work pay off.

- Richard Branson

Friday, July 25, 2025

July 25, 2025

Where’s Waldo? He’s everywhere and nowhere, just like life’s little surprises.

- Martin Handford

Thursday, July 24, 2025

July 24, 2025

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and play… and for dogs, toys.

- Albert Schweitzer

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

July 23, 2025

The studio is my playground, where ideas turn into sound and imagination into music.

- Quincy Jones

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

July 22, 2025

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

- C. S. Lewis

Monday, July 21, 2025

July 21, 2025

We carry our necessities in bags, but our true essentials are often invisible.

- John Ruskin

Sunday, July 20, 2025

July 20, 2025

Objects are what we use to remember, to save, to hold the past in our hands.

- Margaret Atwood

Saturday, July 19, 2025

July 19, 2025

The carnival is a symbol of man’s capacity for joy.

- Milan Kundera

Friday, July 18, 2025

July 18, 2025

For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.

- Benjamin Franklin

Thursday, July 17, 2025

July 17, 2025

A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.

- John Mayer

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

July 16, 2025

Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style.

- Billy Baldwin

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

July 15, 2025

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

- Liam Callanan

Monday, July 14, 2025

July 14, 2025

There's nothing wrong with wearing a hat and cowboy boots if you want to be a country singer. But when you open your mouth, have something new to say. Have your own style.

- Pam Tillis

Sunday, July 13, 2025

July 13, 2025

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

- Rod Serling

Saturday, July 12, 2025

July 12, 2025

Self-care is not a luxury. It is a necessity.

- Audre Lorde

Friday, July 11, 2025

July 11, 2025

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

- Pierre Salinger

Thursday, July 10, 2025

July 10, 2025

L.L.Bean boots are more than just footwear—they’re a legacy of adventure and durability.

- Outdoors Enthusiast

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

July 09, 2025

The movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

- Tim Burton

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

July 08, 2025

Samantha: Thor, how do we even break the curse? Thor: There is one way. But it involve boiling ingredients in cauldron, and ingredients impossible to come by, requires sailing to distant lands to procure... one pound... sugar. Samantha: Oh, oh, sugar like regular sugar? Thor: Entire pound, did you not hear? And that's not all. Also need rare spice from far away land. One pinch worth more than 30 horses, goes by name of cinnamon.

- Ghosts

Monday, July 7, 2025

July 07, 2025

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

- Elizabeth Bishop

Sunday, July 6, 2025

July 06, 2025

Shopping malls across the county are dying fast, and my images of them are very nostalgic for most people that grew up attending these malls. These malls were communal spaces. These were gigantic chat rooms before the Internet existed. You went to the mall to meet and communicate with others, not just to shop.

- Seph Lawless

Saturday, July 5, 2025

July 05, 2025

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty and freedom… and is marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

- John Thune

Friday, July 4, 2025

July 04, 2025

Mayor Vaughn: [to reporter] I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open and people are having a wonderful time. Amity, as you know, means "friendship".

- Jaws

Thursday, July 3, 2025

July 03, 2025

The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.

- Prasad Mahes

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

July 02, 2025

We shall go wild with fireworks… and they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness.

- Natsuki Takaya

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

July 01, 2025

I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience. I know all of the driving skills that are necessary for one to be successful in the rain. But racing in the rain is also about the mind!

- Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain