Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. -Walt Whitman

Dusk on Tuesday

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. -Jean-Paul Sartre

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. -Victor Hugo

Clouds Between

These photos were taken while I was waiting for the doors to the train to open.  I was standing under the station overhang when I took them.

These photos were taken while waiting for the train doors to open. I was standing under the station overhang, looking up at the rain clouds.

Keep Calm and Float On

Keep calm and float on
the tide will carry you
gently away from land
enfolding you within
waves of glorious joy
moving you towards the
illumination of the ether.
-Anonymous

Flag In Spring

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it. -John Thune

Upper Half

It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity. -E.M. Forster

Crisscross Over Lake

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. -John Lubbock

Face-to-Face

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
-Dwight D(avid) Eisenhower

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. -Oscar Wilde

God! I will pack, and take a train, And get me to England once again! For England’s the one land,I know, Where men with Splendid Hearts may go.
-Rupert Chawner Brooke

Grayness

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. -Duke Ellington