Anchovies

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.
~John Steinbeck

Mouse on a Stick

"I honestly believe it is better to know nothing
than to know what ain't so."
~Josh Billings, 1818-1885 (in "Solemn Thoughts")

Poor mountain anemone (a.k.a. mouse on a stick; dish mop; old man of the mountains; tow-head baby; windflower, pasqueflower). Pasqueflower comes from the French word for Easter, since the anemone blooms early in spring. Anemone and lupine are favorite food of the Pika. Thanks to Old Man Travels.

Sky Watch Friday

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love,
for they enkindle and melt the soul.
~Saint Teresa of Avila
Spanish ascetic, nun, & saint (1515 - 1582)

Alligator Lizard

Never regret something that once made you smile.
~Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide

Molly the Mule

“My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating -- and he knows when to stop working.”

~Harry S Truman

Sky Watch Friday

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.
~Archibald MacLeish
US administrator, dramatist, & poet (1892 - 1982)

Can you see the mountain?

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
~Berenice Abbott