“Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.” ~William Cullen Bryant

So...

Here are nature twins! 

(Just roll with it....I'm running outta material here...)

What's it mean when he's a solid cream color??!!

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“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” ~Vincent Van Gogh

So...

Mara, Pappy and I went to the Cincinnati Art Museum last week to visit the Vincent van Gogh exhibit.  Well worth the trip - his work is absolutely beautiful.

Here are some observances...

“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”
~Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, July 21, 1882

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“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” ~W.P. Kinsella

So...

I was digging through my old external hard drives (again) yesterday and found a couple of oldies-but-goodies to share.

I really need to get my butt back out there everyday....

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“The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.” ~Franz Kafka

Ok...

On the flip side of the Supermoon. 

Yesterday's photo was taken on November 14, 2016, at approximately 6:15pm.  Today's photo was taken on November 15, 2016, at approximately 6:15am. 

Cool!!

Now I want a telescope....

“The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.” ~William Shakespeare

So...

This was my first attempt at the Supermoon tonight.  I'm going to try again in the morning...

Strange how the night moves....

Mood...

“I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.” ~Thurgood Marshall

So...

I am having a REALLY hard time accepting the outcome of the election.  Not so much the fact the Trump was elected - and the BS he stated he was going to change, implement or eliminate - but the jackasses who now think that it is now okay and acceptable to treat people the way Trump was urging them to.  Reading stories of verbal and physical attacks just one day after the election is very disheartening.  No one should feel fear living in this country.  EVER.  Fear of what is happening at the political level is bad enough, but when I have to live in fear in my everyday surroundings, well...this is bad.  REALLY bad. 

Please...can we not embrace the hate-mongering, racism and bigotry?  I thought we - as a nation - were mostly past this.

I decided to post photos of pretty flowers tonight.  I need to find some zen.  Maybe this will help.

“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt