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Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

WHAT WOULD TWAIN SAY?

BLUE CHARGE AND RETREAT
Moonstone Beach, Cambria
      The rhythm and sound of the Pacific enhances any day.

"I do not like work, even when someone else does it."
Mark Twain

SNAPS OF THE PROS
   Tennis champion Rafa Nadal taking a practice break in 93 degree heat at Indian Wells. 
   The BNP Paribas Open offers this blogger a chance to indulge his sports photography fantasy.
   The great Serena Williams during a practice session.

      Wimbledon Champion Andy Murray with a power drink.
   Nadal's eyes laser focused on the ball.
   Exercising his tick of putting his hair behind his ear.
   Eugenie Bourchard and shadow in a post shot single leg stance.
   Bouchard arching on a serve.
 Alize Cornet finishes a backhand.
   Andy Murray ready to deliver on a serve. His is one of the games best.
 Murray and shadow are airborne after a return. Notice the ball at his knee.
 Grigor Dimitrov in two phases of a great backhand during practice

   The fourth ranked Caroline Wozniacki going for a shot in a game and match she would loose.
   Canadian Star Milos Raonic demonstrates the intensity of waiting for a shot.
    When discussing careers my high school guidance counselor missed a couple of options-Tennis and Winemaker. Wonder what Twain would say about those lines of "work?" 

      See you down the trail.

Monday, January 19, 2015

SEEING INSPIRATION

REFLECTIONS
   Mark Twain, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and Ernest Hemingway all found refuge and inspiration in the Hawaiian Islands. 
    The abounding beauty is but one of the captivating influences that engage the mind and put the muse to dance. The melding of Polynesian culture with indigenous history and native personality is rich. Add to that, color,   aroma, food, and a special relationship of people with nature all playing out in the unique light of a Pacific Island and you have a blend for reflection, appealing to writers and countless artists.
      William Faulkner said a writer needs experience, observation and imagination. Twain, London and Stevenson found it here.  
       On a previous visit, working on a documentary, a helicopter pilot with whom we worked told me the land and the Hawaiian people are connected in a special way and he said the land is alive. There is an energy and power to life that abides on land that has emerged from the sea by power of the ring of fire. Observing and experience life here stokes the imagination with volcanic power.
SEEING IT
     These frames are works of reflection in degrees of intricacy. If you have a moment, decipher how reality is bent by reflection.
  The following are a trio in tribute to the dancing palms.


   The following frames may take a moment to determine how up is on the bottom.

   Wishing you moments of reflection and inspiration.

REMEMBERING THE DREAMER
    
     See you down the trail.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

MEDITATIONS ON MEN, WOMEN & EROS

A PRAYER FOR PETRAEUS

" LORD GIVE ME CHASTITY-BUT NOT YET"
Saint Augustine  354-430
     It's too bad for the whole cast that any of this is now front page and 24/7 news.  
"Deceiving others, that is what the world 
calls a romance"
Oscar Wilde
     How does it begin?  A touch, a look, a playful flirtation that goes too far?
      Sad that a good man with stellar service to his nation is deposed by private actions and sad too that we are denied his capable skill.
"The surest protection against temptation is cowardice."
Mark Twain
      We are right to question though, why a chief of intelligence would leave the kind of trail that investigators have chased.
"Oh what a tangled web we weave...when first we
practice to deceive."
Walter Scott
Quoted by Senator Sam Ervin during Watergate

"And thus I clothe my naked villainy
with odd old ends stolen out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
William Shakespeare, Richard III

  As editorial cartoons and pundits have noted, Petraeus is not alone in his submission to lust.
"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed
adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will
do this and he forgives me."
President Jimmy Carter

"We are never like angels till our passion dies."
Thomas Dekker  1572-1632

   And so our national soap opera turns.  But I wonder, 
should we really care?
"The saints are sinners who kept on going."
Robert Louis Stevenson  1850-1894

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   See you down the trail.









Thursday, November 24, 2011

A THANKFUL TURKEY TROT

GO AHEAD AND COUNT THEM-
Your blessings.
Gratitude is good for you
On November 2, 1800 President John Adams
wrote to his Wife Abigail.
I send his words to you on a personal level
about your home.
And  they are issued here again as
Adams meant them, as he was a new occupant
of the White House.
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings
on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it.
May none but honest and wise (men) ever rule
under this roof."
I count friendship as a great blessing.
Long and lasting friendship is a cause for 
great celebration.
"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring nature that
it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money."
Mark Twain
:)
And again today, our neighbors on the Top of the World
ridge top, made their parade, terrorizing our cats.
If anything feels lucky today, it should be
these messy cretins from a prehistoric age.



but we are glad to see them
and thankful to share one of
their commercially raised cousins.
(organic of course)
GOBBLE GOBBLE
See you down the trail.