daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

Friday, September 25, 2026

September 25, 2026

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks

Thursday, September 24, 2026

September 24, 2026

It is the very error of the moon. She comes more nearer earth than she was wont. And makes men mad.

- William Shakespeare, Othello

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

September 23, 2026

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

- Simon Sinek

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

September 22, 2026

Know your own happiness.

- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Monday, September 21, 2026

September 21, 2026

Be like the sun; never let the opinions of those who hate you dull your shine.

- Matshona Dhliwayo

Sunday, September 20, 2026

September 20, 2026

Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

- Mark Lawrence

Saturday, September 19, 2026

September 19, 2026

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

- John Updike

Friday, September 18, 2026

September 18, 2026

The night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

- Vincent van Gogh

Thursday, September 17, 2026

September 17, 2026

Some people collect out of a desire for an aesthetic, others for prestige, and still others for a sense of mastery. But most theories of collecting elaborate on attempts to define, protect, or enhance the self.

- Randy O. Frost, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

September 16, 2026

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

- Mark Twain

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

September 15, 2026

A golfer has to train his swing on the practice tee, then trust it on the course.

- Dr. Bob Rotella

Monday, September 14, 2026

September 14, 2026

One little ray of sunlight can do wonders in our life.

- Bhuwan Thapaliya

Sunday, September 13, 2026

September 13, 2026

Hanging laundry on a line is a very ordinary task. It is as ordinary as scraped knees and lost keys, as fixing the same simple dish for supper again, and again. Ordinary is most days, and Lord helps us if we overlook them.

- Jerusalem Jackson Greer, A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting, and Coming Together

Saturday, September 12, 2026

September 12, 2026

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

- John Galsworthy

Friday, September 11, 2026

September 11, 2026

Portobello road, Portobello road Street where the riches of ages are stowed. Anything and everything a chap can unload Is sold off the barrow in Portobello road. You’ll find what you want in the Portobello road. Rare alabaster? Genuine plaster! A filigreed samovar owned by the czars. A pen used by Shelley? A new Boticelli?

- Portobello Road

Thursday, September 10, 2026

September 10, 2026

And even if you were a pawn - maybe we all are - then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

- Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

September 09, 2026

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

- Annie Leibovitz

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

September 08, 2026

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

- Charles M. Schulz

Monday, September 7, 2026

September 07, 2026

I glared daggers at him, but they just bounced off him like water on a freshly waxed car.

- H.P. Mallory, To Kill A Warlock

Sunday, September 6, 2026

September 06, 2026

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

- Amy Poehler

Saturday, September 5, 2026

September 05, 2026

Because terriers are problem solvers. They’ll do what you tell them, but only if it happens to be in line with what they wanted to do anyway.

- Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

Friday, September 4, 2026

September 04, 2026

You have to travel far and wide to see a lot of the world’s wonders, but sunsets can be appreciated in every corner of the earth.

- Kimmie Conner

Thursday, September 3, 2026

September 03, 2026

I must have flowers, always, and always.

- Claude Monet

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

September 02, 2026

Putting out crackers and cheese is reasonable when visitors show up with wine, but not when they arrive with cyanide.

- Nancy McWilliams, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

September 01, 2026

You can often wash your troubles away with the right kind of bath. Throw everything you have into the tub: bubble gels, bubble oils, bubble powders, bubble gum.

- Henry Beard

Monday, August 31, 2026

August 31, 2026

All my jewelry has stories.

- Eva Green

Sunday, August 30, 2026

August 30, 2026

Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

- Albert Einstein

Saturday, August 29, 2026

August 29, 2026

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

Friday, August 28, 2026

August 28, 2026

Homer Simpson: Stupid bug! You go squish now!

- The Simpsons

Thursday, August 27, 2026

August 27, 2026

I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.

- Dolly Parton

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

August 26, 2026

The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical items plugged into the faulty electrical circuit.

- Steven Magee

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

August 25, 2026

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

- Oscar Wilde

Monday, August 24, 2026

August 24, 2026

I'm constantly listening to music and thinking about it and compiling my own cassettes and CDs in obsessively specific order. I have quite lunatic agendas for what I want to achieve. They won't make sense to anyone other than me, but it is what I've spent most of my life doing.

- Michel Faber

Sunday, August 23, 2026

August 23, 2026

How do you make sweet corn? You whisper sweet nothings in its ear!


Saturday, August 22, 2026

August 22, 2026

Your health account, your bank account, they’re the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen. Together you have a kingdom.

- Jack LaLanne

Friday, August 21, 2026

August 21, 2026

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Thursday, August 20, 2026

August 20, 2026

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

- Bai Ling

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

August 19, 2026

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

- L. Frank Baum

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

August 18, 2026

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.

- Gabe Newell

Monday, August 17, 2026

August 17, 2026

Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That’s when things happen. That’s when you find out everything you want to know.

- John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Sunday, August 16, 2026

August 16, 2026

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

- Elizabeth Scott, Bloom

Saturday, August 15, 2026

August 15, 2026

Far from the bustle of the city, she was a complete stranger here, like Dorothy stepping out of her whirling house into the land of Oz. Farm stands overflowing with local produce marked the long driveways into farms with whimsical names- Almost Paradise, One Bad Apple, Toad Hollow.

- Susan Wiggs, The Apple Orchard

Friday, August 14, 2026

August 14, 2026

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

- Elbert Hubbard

Thursday, August 13, 2026

August 13, 2026

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

- Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

August 12, 2026

It is better to have a great team than a team of greats.

- Simon Sinek

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

August 11, 2026

Tim Canterbury: The people you work with are people you were just throw together with. You know, you don't know them, it wasn't your choice, and yet you spend more time with them then you do your friends or your family.

- The Office

Monday, August 10, 2026

August 10, 2026

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

- John Maeda

Sunday, August 9, 2026

August 09, 2026

My bedroom is my favorite chill out zone, where after a hectic day, I sign off to land in my dreams.

- Sudha Chandran

Saturday, August 8, 2026

August 08, 2026

The pillow doesn’t ask about the origin of its contents.

- Florin-Marian Hera, Ten Loud Rocks

Friday, August 7, 2026

August 07, 2026

Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood