visit more Skywatchers I stopped to take this picture of the sunset and after I loaded it on the computer I thought I should have stopped at this fire station and told them to look up the sky was on fire -- Did I get a pity smile:) e
You got a smile out of me! That's a gorgeous sky picture! Such pretty colors. You asked about boiled peanuts. They are sold at roadside stands and festivals around here and you can make them at home too. You boil the peanuts until they are soft in salty water. Green peanuts work best. It took me a long time to like them as I've always preferred parched peanuts. Thanks for the visit!
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
12 comments:
Great sunset pic.
I see Friday 13 there.
Have a great weekend!
You got a smile out of me!
That's a gorgeous sky picture! Such pretty colors.
You asked about boiled peanuts. They are sold at roadside stands and festivals around here and you can make them at home too. You boil the peanuts until they are soft in salty water. Green peanuts work best. It took me a long time to like them as I've always preferred parched peanuts. Thanks for the visit!
These colours are spectacular.Bare trees really sand out against them.
You made me smile. That's an incredible sight.
Hahhahaa.... the firemen had better have VERY long hose :P
Wow what a fantastic shot, thanks so much for sharing this great skywatch shot with us.
Regina In Pictures
Beautiful colors. A simply beautiful skywatch capture.
Maybe on April fool's day you would have. Nice shot thought.
I love the sky picture. I really like your pictures. You do such a nice job and I always marvel at your powers of observation.
Love n' hugs
The colours are wonderful in this sky shot. Good one!
no, Marcia, don't tell anything to the firemen, just let the sky burning. It's so spendid.
Hi Marcia, your sky and my sky sure do look alike! Ha! Tish created a new meme and I thought I would join her on Fridays... :)
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