Category Archives: From the Quote Box

A Late Paint

From Kristy’s Barn in Castleton/Schodack. Hope you all go out and look at that moon, too! Took some nice photos of the sunset after this. It was good to go out and look at the sky. I managed to buy … Continue reading

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Administrivia :: Watch your head!

Doing a little updating and tweaking so let me know if anything seems broken or amiss. I’m sure it will be, somewhere! (note to fans – my first priority was getting the quote box back up and running and it … Continue reading

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From the Quote Box – Constable

Always remember,sir, that light and shadow never stand still…. In your skies, for instance, always aim at brightness, although there are states in the atmosphere in which the sky itself is not bright. I do not mean that you are … Continue reading

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What’s important

Via brainpickings: The trick is, I find, to tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies. […] After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, … Continue reading

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What? November 22nd?

Where has November gone? Some of you remember today as the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Some of you know November as NaNoWriMo – 50,000 words, 30 days, 0 excuses. While I do remember the death of JFK, I … Continue reading

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