spankingly full moon @ Chilmark

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
~Anton Chekov

Aquinnah peace

relevance

Have a happy 4th of July!

Chappaquiddick ferry fussy

a path to a view

“You must give up the luggage of your desires and wishes and thus make life less burdensome.”
~Sri Sathya Si Baba

guac off !

mini rainbow

bliss factor max

mac out

"When I am grown to man's estate

I shall be very proud and great,

And tell the other girls and boys

Not to meddle with my toys."
~Robert Louis Stevenson

“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry,
get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
~William Saroyan

“Death, the one appointment we all must keep, and for which no time is set”
~Charlie Chan

Stinson Beach pleasure

“Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.”

--Lord Byron

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
~Ernest Hemingway

"Be obscure clearly."

E.B. White

Love and Peace

a hybrid tea rose @ M's garden

“The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.”

~anon

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."
~Buddha

“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”

~Eleanor Roosevelt

the Overlook Gallery @ SFMOMA Rooftop garden

installation by Robert Long

"Capricious, wanton, bold and brutal lust
Is meanly selfish;
when resisted, cruel;
And like the blast of pestilential winds,
Taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms."
~John Milton

"That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout?
Will it bloom this year?"
~T.S. Eliot

smile more, honk less

"Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it."
~Claude Adrien Helvetius
(French Philosopher, 1715-1771)

"The world is mud~luscious and puddle~wonderful."
~E.E. Cummings

baby steppin' in Christian Louboutin

seriously

#15 He who laughs last thinks slowest.











click here if you take life too seriously source

what?

appealing the flora

a nonchalants gathering

breakdancers
street preachers
hobo sapiens
drag queens
erhu players
investment bankers
lion dancers
pirates
marching bands
jazz musicians
tap dancers
superheroes
witchdoctors
ninjas
street performers
aliens
improv~o~lionists
and of course...freaks

get in line

"Truth and roses have thorns about them."

~Henry David Thoreau

Pacific enticement

kites with your fog?

"The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m."

~Charles Pierce

sooo...big !

the Pied Piper

"My mind's my kingdom."

~Francis Quarles

swimmingly Stinson !

beachy bliss

heart paradigm

ladies in painting

with exception

“The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.”
~Sydney Billow Barrows

“Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.” ~anon

appellant not

sickest Saks window display ever ! ! !

goldfish outta water = NOT funny

“Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
~G.K. Chesterton

Breaking with convention or tradition

Coccinelle

bunny buddies

"Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny."

~Dashiell Hammett

multiple rabbit personality

garb

"The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness."
~Therese of Lisieux

"I love humanity but I hate people."

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

human exile

y ?

"You call it madness, but I call it love."

~Don Byas

"Painted Ladies We Love"

This mosaic heart was commissioned for Heroes and Hearts 2009, San Francisco




click here for more about the artists

"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

dial for sun

love 'em preppy more !

go jump in a pond

April fool funny

quantum kites

“It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.”

Caryl P. Haskins

breaking with convention or tradition

the heart @ Huntington

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
~Vincent Van Gogh

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music”

~Rachmaninov

courageous nevertheless

on second thought...just what if the person hearts someone with those initials? hmmm

papyrus (card) prescription

eat more carrots

musical bench

"While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom."
Samuel Dash

the best medicine

search this

"Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man."
~Johnnie Cochran

“That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity.”

~Soren Kierkegaard

city wide injection

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

~Alfred Austin

Sir Walter Scott:

"Nothing is more the child of art than a garden."

the 'kiss me' roomie tribe

Irish Bank rogue

green hair doo dude

"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead."

~Lucille Ball

green bow butt & company

top of the morning

more Mark Twain

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."

in possession of lilac

7. pretentious

adjective, generally utilized in order to mask the speaker's own inadequacy, incomprehension and failure.

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness,
the hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

~Eric Hoffer

retail emptiness

dog gone logic

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
Aldous Huxley

alive & seeking

"It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive."

~Earl Warren

"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
~Oscar Wilde

birdy bliss penthouse

The early bird gets the worm.
~American Proverb

refuge

“Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex”

~Oscar Wilde

Lilium Casa Blanca

full of love warning

A B C D E F

continuance

you dig?

every little thang is gonna b ~

emerge

“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.”

~Winston Churchill

rough (twin) draft

process purple

charms, spells, and rituals

emergence pending

“It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.”
~Henry Rollins

stormy & shiny

file this

“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
~D. H Lawrence

“The only paradise is paradise lost”

~Proust

my Maasain tribal sceptre Valentine extraordinaire!

The Maasai are an indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic people located in Kenya and northern Tanzania.

hybrid love

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
~Thoreau

red tulips @ Peet's

my valentine palette of happiness

"Love is a canvas

furnished by Nature

and embroidered by

imagination."

~Voltaire

flower @ the court !

"Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law."

~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

on prohibited grounds

"There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable."
~Mark Twain

"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."
~Pearl Bailey

paraskevidekatriaphobe

Friday the 13th

freaky friday favors

or confidential coincidences

"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."
~Oscar Wilde

Even a sour treat is still a treat...

some fine lemons left for me today!

"I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'"

~Andy Warhol

honorable bench

path Proverb~

“Every path has its puddle”

blue rooftop thoughts match the sky

The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Marin County Civic Center

attitude adjustment time

"All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal--a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends--wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

~Aristotle

The Ritz exposes sense of humor (tastefully of course)!

~with their edible flowers being so hip hop "tastey" !

Sakura

"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient."

~Aristotle

“Fashion is not something
that exists in dresses only.
Fashion is in the sky,
in the street,
fashion has to do with ideas,
the way we live, what is happening.”
Coco Chanel

les fleurs lyrical

"What we live by we die by."

~Robert Frost

green dragonfly totem

get your man panties @ Macy's

“Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.... It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination....”
~Oscar Wilde

"Go west, young man."
~John Soule

quality time

“Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

planning backwards

shark advisory noted !

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

~Cicero

victorious

"Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs , carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. and above all futility."
~Antoine de St~Exupery

nectar finder

envisioning victory

have a book for lunch

"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."
~Ray Bradbury

“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”
~Napolean Hill

peet's shows me chai luv !

Pièce de résistance

"You write your own story."

~Blair Adams

mill valley car wash

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
~Thodore Roosevelt

triple spin

Gung Hay Fat Choy

=Best wishes and Congratulations.
Have a prosperous and good year!















What a lovely surprise awaiting me!
Longevity and courage are represented by the new blossom,
while the pin wheels are meant to blow away all evil and the bells are meant to ring for good luck!
Happy Chinese New Year to you too!

170.6 code

get outta my head bag

palm tree frame of mind

persona

dam sign

ballet variance

“The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
~Pablo Picasso

not war of the worlds

@ The Castro tonight!

Bud Cort sings out !

seeking

“If you want peace, work for justice.”

~Henry L. Mencken

Inauguration # 44

palette du jour

“Silence is a source of great strength."
~Lao Tzu

hide in pink sight

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

~Coco Chanel

cinéma muet

ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

~Thomas Jefferson

b

let there b

seriously? where's my car?

now scoot

sandy heart beat

"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."

~William Shakespeare

composure

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”

~William Shakespeare

transcendental

pure silliness

2nd sign posted for my viewing pleasure ? hmmm

sunshine smiling through

paging dorothy or triple 2 code?

expansive modernity

shamanism symbology

la lune

a Chinese proverb

"When a finger points to the moon,
the imbecile looks at the finger."

they don't call 'em vanity plates for nothin'

conquer this

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."

~Henry David Thoreau

a smile of a sign

So, I pulled into my parking space tonight...imagine the giggling that ensued upon finding this sign!
I wonder who left this?

"There are no failures~ just experiences and your reactions to them."

Tom Krause

Buddha says~

“No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.”

bird watch this

“Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.”

~Marlon Brando

"Better the chance of a shipwreck on a voyage of high purpose, than expend life in paddling hither and thither on a shallow stream to no purpose at all."
Miss Sedgwick

"Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but they also get more notoriety when they crash.

~Amelia Earhart

"Peace is always beautiful"

~Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass

slippy therapy

~ with love from my ecbff !

union street skull head gangsta

"The World is a book, and those who do not travel
read only a page."
~St. Augustine

Union Square cafe

"I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

~Robert Frost

window display @ barneys

marc jacobs makes

"There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity."

-- Elise Boulding

have a sandy New Year!

An Irish Blessing

"May God give you...For every storm a rainbow, for every tear a smile, for every care a promise and a blessing in each trial. For every problem life sends, a faithful friend to share, for every sigh a sweet song and an answer for each prayer."

give a fig

“I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”

~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere."
~Groucho Marx

nerd/dweeb/dork + peculiarity =

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things."

~John Burroughs

Muir Woods

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods."
~Lord Byron

fortitude & verve

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
~Oscar Wilde

verve

def.

1. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas, especially in artistic performance or composition
2. Vitality; liveliness.
3. Archaic. Aptitude; talent.

fortitude

def.

Strength of mind that allows one to endure pain or adversity with courage.

berry much

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

~Oscar Wilde

a very tart tart indeed

"I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder."
~Ernest Dowson

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
~Mark Twain

aquatic park

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
~William Shedd

holiday bliss

wreath karma

"Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words."
~Harlan Miller

"When I am grown to man's estate
I shall be very proud and great.
And tell the other girls and boys
Not to meddle with my toys."
~Robert Louis Stevenson

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful"

~Norman Vincent Peale

“I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!”

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow