May the smile never leave your beautiful face.
Happy birthday

Joyce Zurub

« Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects » – Dave Barry

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Sylvia Plath

« Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world » – Steven Pinker

« Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home » – Tom Robbins

He wanted to tell her how much he preferred to look at her, that only by watching could he memorize her, and take her and possess her. He did not know how to explain that he could not touch better or more fully with his hands than he could with his eyes. Seeing encompassed all at once; a touch was limited to one spot at a time.

Jerzy Kosinksi

« Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors » – Henry David Thoreau

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Horace Mann

« Be more ambitious. Do your homework. There’s no easy way around this » – Anthony McCarten

Astro, my very special and most wonderful dog: You crossed the Rainbow Bridge.

Even though you were blind and deaf, you never failed to greet me at the door when I came back from work. I am sorry for ignoring you sometimes when you only wanted just a small caress.

I miss your bark, your wagging small tail, your nagging and mostly your presence next to me.

Thank you for being in my life and a member of my family for 17 years and 6 months. Thank you for all the unforgettable memories that I will cherish forever. Thank you for all the slobbery kisses you printed on my face and for all the stuck brown fur on my clothes.

Astro, I love you so much and miss you more that you could ever know.

Joyce Zurub

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I lost a treasured friend today
The little dog who used to lay
His gentle head upon my knee
And share his silent thoughts with me.

He’ll come no longer to my call
Retrieve no more his favorite ball
A voice far greater than my own
Has called him to His golden throne.

Although my eyes are filled with tears
I thank Him for the happy years
He let him spend down here with me
And for his love and loyalty.

Author Unknown

« I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace » – Matt Lauer

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes.

Because for those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation.

Rumi

Championne suisse junior d’équitation, le destin de Celine van Till bascule en 2008, lors d’un stage d’entraînement. La chute! Celine reste un mois dans le coma: elle en ressort partiellement tétraplégique, malvoyante et ayant perdu ses capacités mentales. Forte d’une détermination à toute épreuve et d’un mental de compétitrice hors-pair, c’est auprès de ses chevaux qu’elle entame sa « résurrection », un combat de tous les instants pour revenir à la vie.

Suite aux Jeux Paralympiques de Rio en 2016, Celine est devenue une athlète paralympique. Elle se focalise aujourd’hui sur son objectif : gagner une médaille à Tokyo en 2020, dans la course du 400m. Elle voit 10% d’un seul oeil. Son mantra: « Tout est possible » !

Elle me sert un Malbec argentin et me dit :  » Je ressemble à John Lennon !  »

Audrey, la fée du Café Alphonse…

« If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine » – Federico Fellini

Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Khalil Gibran

And now you’ll be telling stories of my coming back
And they won’t be false, and they won’t be true
But they’ll be real

Mary Oliver

« Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature » – Gérard de Nerval

« Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it » – Sai Baba

What were these secret weapons they had on their face? Are they trying to capture my soul or something?

Author unkown

Jupiter est une « grave rubber », littéralement une « frotteuse de tombes ».

Comment a-t-elle trouvé la tombe de Coco Chanel dans ce cimetière de Lausanne ?

Mes guides chaman m’ont montré la voie.

« Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear » – Joshua Wisenbaker

The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

Sylvia Plath

Jake: But I’ve already chosen. But this woman must also choose me.
Neytiri: She already has. ♥

Avatar movie

« Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile » – Nhat Hanh

« Almost cut my hair / Happened just the other day / It’s gettin’ kind of long / I could’ve said it was in my way » – David Crosby

“Are you ready? » Klaus asked finally.
« No, » Sunny answered.
« Me neither, » Violet said, « but if we wait until we’re ready we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let’s go.”

Lemony Snicket

« And all I could think was that I should have been the one with the camera » – David Levithan

I’m right behind you
In the light of hope
I’ll be beside you
On that dusty road
And if you get blind, well that’s alright
Wicked winds blow with grace and might
Cling to the ways of my name
When you touch the stone

Brandon Flowers

« Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly » – Anonymous

L’architecte est un magicien qui déploie sa pensée en volume. Il sait jongler avec les contingences, fait se tenir debout du sable mêlé à de l’eau.

Ou de la bave avec des feuilles…

His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch.

Sophie Jordan

You can ask others for directions about your life’s path…But remember, then you’re on someone else’s journey and may get lost. Search for your path within.

Nanette Mathews

Aujourd’hui vu :

Des paons, un lapin, des buffles d’eau, deux crocodiles, quatre éléphants, une dizaine de martin-pêcheur, des troupeaux de biches, deux cerfs, des cochons sauvages, l’ombre d’un ours, deux chiens et beaucoup de comme nous.

« Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes » – Jeffrey McDaniel

« Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you » – Walt Whitman

On your mark, get set, go!

« Nature always wears the colors of the spirit » – Ralph Waldo Emerson

delusional

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Jeanne Moreau

Je demande à notre hôte pourquoi sur leur photo de mariage il dépasse d’une tête sa femme alors qu’ils sont de la même taille.

Elle est assise !

Probablement une tradition Sri-Lankaise.

Sussanta est photographe, mari attentionné et membre du Beetle club de Kandy. Sa coccinelle  est aussi vieille que lui, soixante ans. Nilanti, en épouse  dévouée ne sort jamais sans son mari. Elle préfère s’occuper de son intérieur.

« In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends » – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.

Santosh Kalwar

« Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only » – Samuel Butler

After all, we all know Hide and Seek can be a scary game especially when we don’t want to be found.

Callie Hunter

La photo  animalière au grand-angle c’est compliqué ! Il faut de bonnes chaussures et de bons réflexes…

On the road again, going places that I’ve never been. Seeing things that I may never see again, and I can’t wait to get on the road again.

Willie Nelson

« There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self » – Aldous Huxley

Twins: Two unique souls united by birth.

Unknown author

« The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek » – Joseph Campbell

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Walter Scott

… à Zermatt, où je vis à l’année.

Et ce n’est pas un poisson d’avril !

« Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June » – Al Bernstein