daily photo blog by Alicia Millane

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

Friday, May 8, 2026

May 08, 2026

The game is always changing, and the players who adapt are the ones who survive.

- Rob Cesternino

Thursday, May 7, 2026

May 07, 2026

The lens is the eye of the photographer.

- Andreas Feininger

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

May 06, 2026

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

- A. A. Milne

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

May 05, 2026

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

- Oscar Wilde

Monday, May 4, 2026

May 04, 2026

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

- Darth Vader

Sunday, May 3, 2026

May 03, 2026

You are what you eat.

- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Saturday, May 2, 2026

May 02, 2026

The most exciting two minutes in sports.

- Kentucky Derby

Friday, May 1, 2026

May 01, 2026

Fast food has become the most widely consumed cuisine in the world.

- Eric Schlosser