daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Saturday, June 27, 2026

June 27, 2026

If a patient cannot clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him.

- Martin H. Fischer

Friday, June 26, 2026

June 26, 2026

An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

- B. R. Ambedkar

Thursday, June 25, 2026

June 25, 2026

"Put a summer watermelon in your stomach" حط في بطنك بطيخة صيفي Rough translation: ‘He’s got a summer watermelon lodged in his stomach.’ Is that co-worker of yours awfully calm amidst chaos? That driver in front of you simply cannot be bothered to pick up the pace? Well, you could say they have a ‘summer watermelon’ blissfully filling up their stomach. Often used to denote nonchalance and a lack of care, the origin behind this particular saying is fairly straightforward. Watermelon is filled with vitamin B6 and other essential nutrients that help relieve muscle ache and stress, so the connection makes a lot of sense.

- Egyptian Expression (sceneeats.com)

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

June 24, 2026

If only there was mouthwash for the brain. Brain wash. They could make a fortune on that stuff.

- Theresa Paolo, [Never] Again

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

June 23, 2026

I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

- Kyle MacLachlan

Monday, June 22, 2026

June 22, 2026

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

Sunday, June 21, 2026

June 21, 2026

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

- Ralph Marston

Saturday, June 20, 2026

June 20, 2026

So it's home again, and home again, America for me! My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be, In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

- Henry van Dyke, "America for Me"

Friday, June 19, 2026

June 19, 2026

Time has a wonderful way to show us what really matters.

- Margaret Peters

Thursday, June 18, 2026

June 18, 2026

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are.

- Diane Lane

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

June 17, 2026

She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker. I shall never forget her appearance this morning. She really looked almost wild.

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

June 16, 2026

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Monday, June 15, 2026

June 15, 2026

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

- Johnny Depp

Sunday, June 14, 2026

June 14, 2026

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul…the best thing for a cut or abrasion was to go swimming in saltwater. Later down the road of life, I made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

- Jimmy Buffet

Saturday, June 13, 2026

June 13, 2026

I realize nobody's coming to save me. I must save myself. I must be my own super hero. Although I am open to a sidekick.

- Karen Salmansohn

Friday, June 12, 2026

June 12, 2026

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

- Richard Paul Evans

Thursday, June 11, 2026

June 11, 2026

Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people.

- Jim Knight

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

June 10, 2026

Rose: Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls. Wearing this... Jack: All right. Rose: Wearing *only* this.

- Titanic

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

June 09, 2026

He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided.

- Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

Monday, June 8, 2026

June 08, 2026

Brody: It's only an island if you look at it from the water. Hooper: That makes a lot of sense.

- Jaws

Sunday, June 7, 2026

June 07, 2026

A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well—almost.

- Charlotte Gray

Saturday, June 6, 2026

June 06, 2026

Great craft — be it a boat, sculpture or chair — emanates from the soul of the maker, and that soul is nurtured by the place and the people that surround it.

- Jeremy Irons

Friday, June 5, 2026

June 05, 2026

I count it as an absolute certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. A nap is a perfect pleasure and it's useful, too. It splits the day into two halves, making each half more manageable and enjoyable. How much easier it is to work in the morning if we know we have a nap to look forward to after lunch; and how much more pleasant the late afternoon and evening become after a little sleep. If you know there is a nap to come later in the day, then you can banish forever that terrible sense of doom one feels at 9 A.M. with eight hours of straight toil ahead. Not only that, but a nap can offer a glimpse into a twilight nether world where gods play and dreams happen.

- Tom Hodgkinson, How to Be Idle

Thursday, June 4, 2026

June 04, 2026

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

- Woodrow Wilson

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

June 03, 2026

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

June 02, 2026

Actor Larry Brantley performed the humorous inner monologue of an impossibly charming Jack Russell terrier who imagines himself the hero in some of the most timeless tales of classic literature, from “Romeo and Juliet” and “Oliver Twist” to “Don Quixote” and “Frankenstein.” The goal for “Wishbone” was to make these stories accessible for children, paying homage to the source material, while aiming to instill young viewers with the interest to pick up the books themselves. Plenty of millennials who are now adults will attest to its success.

- Carlos Aguilar, "‘What’s the Story, Wishbone?’ tells how a cute dog on TV brought literature to life for kids", LA Times

Monday, June 1, 2026

June 01, 2026

Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the book, "To Serve Man", it's - it's a cookbook!

- The Twilight Zone

Sunday, May 31, 2026

May 31, 2026

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

- Jorgen Vig Knudstorp (Former CEO of The LEGO Group)

Saturday, May 30, 2026

May 30, 2026

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.

- Christina Rossetti, "Who Has Seen the Wind?"

Friday, May 29, 2026

May 29, 2026

The future just comes rushing at us like... well, like the lava of Pompeii. Our job is just to let it take what it wants to take. One day it's going to come and it's going to smother us all.

- The Devil Wears Prada 2

Thursday, May 28, 2026

May 28, 2026

Live iris has a scent, but its scent is impossible to extract like other flowers. Iris guards its fragrance fiercely.

- Francesca Serritella, Full Bloom

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

May 27, 2026

I am always wearing a bracelet, necklace, and watch. I don't even care if they don't match.

- Grigor Dimitrov

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

May 26, 2026

I have long been of the mindset that aviators are like leather jackets—when they're perfect, they give you instant cool.

- Sterling K. Brown

Monday, May 25, 2026

May 25, 2026

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, May 24, 2026

May 24, 2026

Art is the heartbeat of a space. Let your walls pulse with creativity and inspiration.

- Author Unkown

Saturday, May 23, 2026

May 23, 2026

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

- George Eliot

Friday, May 22, 2026

May 22, 2026

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Thursday, May 21, 2026

May 21, 2026

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

- Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

May 20, 2026

And I'm proud to be on this peaceful piece of property I'm on sacred ground and I'm in the best of company I'm thankful for those thankful for the things I've done I can rest in peace I'm one of the chosen ones I made it to Arlington

- Trace Adkins, "Arlington"

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

May 19, 2026

After the rain cometh the fair weather.

- Aesop

Monday, May 18, 2026

May 18, 2026

It is difficult to say how the idea came to me beyond the fact that it suddenly occurred to me that to have my dog listening to the phonograph, with an intelligent and rather puzzled expression, and call it 'His Master's Voice' would make an excellent subject. It certainly was the happiest thought I ever had.

- Francis Barraud (painter of the original 1898 portrait)

Sunday, May 17, 2026

May 17, 2026

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water – we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

- Josh Radnor

Saturday, May 16, 2026

May 16, 2026

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

- Margaret Atwood

Friday, May 15, 2026

May 15, 2026

A place for everything, everything in its place.

- Isabella Beeton

Thursday, May 14, 2026

May 14, 2026

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

- Gertrude Jekyll

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

May 13, 2026

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

- Steve Jobs

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

May 12, 2026

Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

- Eckhart Tolle, Guardians of Being

Monday, May 11, 2026

May 11, 2026

Great art picks up where nature ends.

- Marc Chagall

Sunday, May 10, 2026

May 10, 2026

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.

- John F. Kennedy

Saturday, May 9, 2026

May 09, 2026

Every puzzle has an answer.

- Lailah Gifty Akita