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the conspiracy of inaction.
In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The famous photographer, Ansel Adams once said:
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government
to save our environment.”
Part of the urge to explore is the desire to get lost.
Tracey Johnston
The future depends on what you do today.
Gandhi
A landscape of white, blankets my view.
The trees are flocked, as if they are new.
chic. 12.28.2018
“Few things are as satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.”
Doug Larson
The German word "knappen" means "to eat" and a knappensack was a sack holding things to eat: a knapsack.
Unknown
"The great thing about getting old is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
Madeleine L'Engle
"I thought growing old would take longer."
Sandy Tarbox
A king can stand people fighting,
but he can't last long if people start thinking.
Will Rogers
Apropo for today's political climate.
World renowned photographer Ansel Adams observed:
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government
to save our environment.
Ansel Adams. 3.6.2017
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and our government when it deserves it."
Benjamin Franklin
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
(Like Donald J. Trump maybe)
Anton Chekhov Russian Playwright
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Apropo for today's political climate.
Adlai Stevenson
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations."
Eric Arthur Blair. aka , George Orwell
There is nothing wrong with America that can not be cured by what is right with America."
William J. Clinton
" Just because the dog likes your cooking doesn't mean you're a good cook.
She likes toilet water, too."
Unknown Cartoonist
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
Rosa Parks
Father to son, "Jeffy...never lie, cheat, or steal." "That's the Governments job."
Life's challenges can be devastating.
chic. 4.1.2017
Friendship
A challenge to ones psyche.
An emotional roller coaster.
A great joy.
Incredible times.
Turmoil.
Fun.
A feeling of awe.
A sadness at times.
But always worth the effort.
chic. 4.1.2017
Obama is the only person to look worse after quitting cigarettes.
S.N.L.Skit. 7.2.2017
A Democrat is a Republican,
that spent a night in jail.
KSPS
Everybody has a plan,
Until they get hit in the face.
Mike Tyson
If time is infinite,
why is there never enough of it?
john deere ad november, 2017
We must believe in luck,
For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like"
Jean Cocteau
Did you know I can cut down a dead tree by just looking at it?
It's true. I saw it with my own eyes.
Unknown
What is every trees least favorite month?
SepTIMMMBERRR,
Unknown
The purpose of life is to live it,
to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear
for newer and richer experiences.
Eleanor Roosevelt
"If wining isn't everything,
why do they keep score.
Vince Lombardi
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones
"The secret to staying young is to live honestly,
eat slowly, and lie about your age,
Lucille Ball
"You've reached old age when the gleam in your eye is just the sun on your bifocals."
Henny Youngman
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
"Half of our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
Will Rogers
"' A Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.'
That is why so many persons don't fool with it."
Dan Kidney
Signs you are really broke:
American Express calls and says:
"Leave home without it!"
Unknown
A blonde bought an AM radio.
It was took her a month and o find out she could listen to it at night.
Unknown
What do you get when you add media to democracy?
Mediocracy!
Unknown
"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth,
inventor of the television,
we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners."
Johnny Carson
"Truth is violated by falsehood,
but it is outraged by silence.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
French poet & Philosopher
Life is like a roll of toilet paper:
the closer you get to the end,
the faster it goes.
Unknown
The Possum Lodge Man's Prayer
"I'm a man
but I can change
if I have to
I guess.
Red Green,
Canadian Comedian
"There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many,
controlled by the few."
Lawrence Lessig
"Few things are as satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
Doug Larson
Q. How much water is needed to produce 12 inches of snow per 1 square mile?
A. Over 17 million gallons.
Spokesman-Review Weathers
"If you wore bell-bottom pants, tie-dyes cloths and danced the boogie woogie,
why would you be embarrassed to get a colonoscopy?"
Deaconess cafeteria .
"Indeed, no storm can be more violent than those of a waterfall in the midst of which he delights to dwell."
John Muir
(The Ouzel is the only aquatic songbird.)
"I keep putting off the first day of the rest of my life."
Thaves. 3.9.2018
A cardiologist walks into a motorcycle repair shop.
The mechanic says, "Hey doc, come over here. I want to show you something."
The heart Doctor walks over to the mechanic.
The mechanic says, "I completely rebuilt this motor. Why is it that I get the small bucks and you get all the big bucks."
The doctor says, "Try doing that with the motor running."
Don Drapeau
Did you know that when you wonder, you're learning?
Fred Rogers
On Mother's Day, 2018 a commercial said this.
If Motherhood was easy, men could do it.
“Don’t sit around doing nothing.
Get up and do something.”
Ida Keeling
103 Year Old Marathoner
“ Can’t Nothing Bring Me Down” Book
As important as these opportunities are, it is also critical that we have places “to hear ourselves think,” away from the growing clamor of the planet. “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” wrote Henry Thoreau.
It is just as true today as when he penned that nearly 200 years ago.
Henry David Thorea
“Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.”
Unknown
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
-President Lyndon B. Johnson
Upon signing the National Wild and Scenic River Act, and the National Trail System Act of 1968.
Sagittarius 1: November 22 - December 21
Independent and strong-willed, Sagittarius personalities are all about going off the beaten path. Sagittarius is open-hearted, generous, big-spirited and painfully honest.
10.2018 From the Friends of Scotchman Peaks.
There will be times,
when you have to walk alone.
This is where,
you will find,
your own truth.
The Lemonade Lady
It’s wise to arrive a little late in this world,
then to arrive early in the next.
Peruvian Proverb
FOG
Obviously, it’s no fun to ski in it.
But to see the snow rimmed trees,
drifting in and out of its grey,
is like a revisioning it’s beauty,
time and time again.
chic. 12.25.2018
As Christmas on the slopes of Silver Mountain,
draws to a close, I hope our nation rises from our
President’s insanity, to shine
in all its greatness.
chic. 12.25.2018
A landscape of white, blankets my view.
The trees are flocked, as if they are new.
chic. 12.28.2018
I am most in awe
of the Sub-Alpine Fir.
chic. 12.28.2018
Success in life is simply a ratio
of what you could have done
to what
you actually did.
Pickles by Brian Crane, comic strip 2.23.2020
Sometimes Mother Nature has the answers when you do not even know the questions.
Keith Wynn
In retirement.
it seems I am busier
then when
I worked.
Leading people is the most challenging and therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors.
Jocko Willink
The thing about hiking is that you can’t avoid the present tense for very long.
Suzanne Roberts, Spokane Mountaineers
Love many, trust few, but always paddle your own canoe.
English Adage
A man can be wise and keep a secret.
But it’s the wise man that doesn’t have to keep
a secret.
8.2020. G. Calin. Chris O’Donnell, NCIS LA
"A leader takes people where they want to go.
A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go,
but ought to be there."
Rosalyn Carter
"We all have our time machines.
Some take us back; they're called emotions.
Some take us forward; they're called dreams."
Jeremy Irons
A Democrat is a Republican,
that spent a night in jail.
KSPS
Everybody has a plan,
Until they get hit in the face.
Mike Tyson
"The people of these United States are the rightful master of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln
The average person uses one 100 foot tall Douglas Fir each year in paper goods alone.
Unknown
Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone.
Unknown
How can there be self-help groups?
Unknown
REMEMBER: You don't stop laughing because you are old.
You grow old because you stop laughing.
Unknown
"If fingers have fingernails....shouldn't thumbs have thumbtacks?"
dennis the menace. 11.2017
Have you heard of ‘Mind over matter”.
If you don't mind, it doesn’t matter.
Mark Twain
“Don’t sit around doing nothing.
Get up and do something.”
Ida Keeling
103 Year Old Marathoner
“ Can’t Nothing Bring Me Down” Book
As important as these opportunities are, it is also critical that we have places “to hear ourselves think,” away from the growing clamor of the planet. “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” wrote Henry Thoreau. It is just as true today as when he penned that nearly 200 years ago.
Henry David Thorea
“Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.”
Unknown
FOG
Obviously, it’s no fun to ski in it.
But to see the snow rimmed trees,
drifting in and out of its grey,
is like a revisioning it’s beauty,
time and time again.
chic. 12.25.2018
As Christmas on the slopes of Silver Mountain,
draws to a close, I hope our nation rises from our
President’s insanity,
to shine,
in all its greatness.
chic. 12.25.2018
the conspiracy of inaction.
In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The famous photographer, Ansel Adams once said:
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government
to save our environment.”
Part of the urge to explore is the desire to get lost.
Tracey Johnston
The future depends on what you do today.
Gandhi
A landscape of white, blankets my view.
The trees are flocked, as if they are new.
chic. 12.28.2018
“Few things are as satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.”
Doug Larson
The German word "knappen" means "to eat" and a knappensack was a sack holding things to eat: a knapsack.
Unknown
"The great thing about getting old is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
Madeleine L'Engle
"I thought growing old would take longer."
Sandy Tarbox
A king can stand people fighting,
but he can't last long if people start thinking.
Will Rogers
Apropo for today's political climate.
World renowned photographer Ansel Adams observed:
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government
to save our environment.
Ansel Adams. 3.6.2017
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and our government when it deserves it."
Benjamin Franklin
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
(Like Donald J. Trump maybe)
Anton Chekhov Russian Playwright
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Apropo for today's political climate.
Adlai Stevenson
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations."
Eric Arthur Blair. aka , George Orwell
There is nothing wrong with America that can not be cured by what is right with America."
William J. Clinton
" Just because the dog likes your cooking doesn't mean you're a good cook.
She likes toilet water, too."
Unknown Cartoonist
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
Rosa Parks
Father to son, "Jeffy...never lie, cheat, or steal." "That's the Governments job."
Life's challenges can be devastating.
chic. 4.1.2017
Friendship
A challenge to ones psyche.
An emotional roller coaster.
A great joy.
Incredible times.
Turmoil.
Fun.
A feeling of awe.
A sadness at times.
But always worth the effort.
chic. 4.1.2017
Obama is the only person to look worse after quitting cigarettes.
S.N.L.Skit. 7.2.2017
A Democrat is a Republican,
that spent a night in jail.
KSPS
Everybody has a plan,
Until they get hit in the face.
Mike Tyson
If time is infinite,
why is there never enough of it?
john deere ad november, 2017
We must believe in luck,
For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like"
Jean Cocteau
Did you know I can cut down a dead tree by just looking at it?
It's true. I saw it with my own eyes.
Unknown
What is every trees least favorite month?
SepTIMMMBERRR,
Unknown
The purpose of life is to live it,
to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear
for newer and richer experiences.
Eleanor Roosevelt
"If wining isn't everything,
why do they keep score.
Vince Lombardi
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones
"The secret to staying young is to live honestly,
eat slowly, and lie about your age,
Lucille Ball
"You've reached old age when the gleam in your eye is just the sun on your bifocals."
Henny Youngman
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
"Half of our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
Will Rogers
"' A Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.'
That is why so many persons don't fool with it."
Dan Kidney
Signs you are really broke:
American Express calls and says:
"Leave home without it!"
Unknown
A blonde bought an AM radio.
It was took her a month and o find out she could listen to it at night.
Unknown
What do you get when you add media to democracy?
Mediocracy!
Unknown
"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth,
inventor of the television,
we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners."
Johnny Carson
"Truth is violated by falsehood,
but it is outraged by silence.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
French poet & Philosopher
Life is like a roll of toilet paper:
the closer you get to the end,
the faster it goes.
Unknown
The Possum Lodge Man's Prayer
"I'm a man
but I can change
if I have to
I guess.
Red Green,
Canadian Comedian
"There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many,
controlled by the few."
Lawrence Lessig
"Few things are as satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
Doug Larson
Q. How much water is needed to produce 12 inches of snow per 1 square mile?
A. Over 17 million gallons.
Spokesman-Review Weathers
"If you wore bell-bottom pants, tie-dyes cloths and danced the boogie woogie,
why would you be embarrassed to get a colonoscopy?"
Deaconess cafeteria .
"Indeed, no storm can be more violent than those of a waterfall in the midst of which he delights to dwell."
John Muir
(The Ouzel is the only aquatic songbird.)
"I keep putting off the first day of the rest of my life."
Thaves. 3.9.2018
A cardiologist walks into a motorcycle repair shop.
The mechanic says, "Hey doc, come over here. I want to show you something."
The heart Doctor walks over to the mechanic.
The mechanic says, "I completely rebuilt this motor. Why is it that I get the small bucks and you get all the big bucks."
The doctor says, "Try doing that with the motor running."
Don Drapeau
Did you know that when you wonder, you're learning?
Fred Rogers
On Mother's Day, 2018 a commercial said this.
If Motherhood was easy, men could do it.
“Don’t sit around doing nothing.
Get up and do something.”
Ida Keeling
103 Year Old Marathoner
“ Can’t Nothing Bring Me Down” Book
As important as these opportunities are, it is also critical that we have places “to hear ourselves think,” away from the growing clamor of the planet. “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” wrote Henry Thoreau.
It is just as true today as when he penned that nearly 200 years ago.
Henry David Thorea
“Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.”
Unknown
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
-President Lyndon B. Johnson
Upon signing the National Wild and Scenic River Act, and the National Trail System Act of 1968.
Sagittarius 1: November 22 - December 21
Independent and strong-willed, Sagittarius personalities are all about going off the beaten path. Sagittarius is open-hearted, generous, big-spirited and painfully honest.
10.2018 From the Friends of Scotchman Peaks.
There will be times,
when you have to walk alone.
This is where,
you will find,
your own truth.
The Lemonade Lady
It’s wise to arrive a little late in this world,
then to arrive early in the next.
Peruvian Proverb
FOG
Obviously, it’s no fun to ski in it.
But to see the snow rimmed trees,
drifting in and out of its grey,
is like a revisioning it’s beauty,
time and time again.
chic. 12.25.2018
As Christmas on the slopes of Silver Mountain,
draws to a close, I hope our nation rises from our
President’s insanity, to shine
in all its greatness.
chic. 12.25.2018
A landscape of white, blankets my view.
The trees are flocked, as if they are new.
chic. 12.28.2018
I am most in awe
of the Sub-Alpine Fir.
chic. 12.28.2018
Success in life is simply a ratio
of what you could have done
to what
you actually did.
Pickles by Brian Crane, comic strip 2.23.2020
Sometimes Mother Nature has the answers when you do not even know the questions.
Keith Wynn
In retirement.
it seems I am busier
then when
I worked.
Leading people is the most challenging and therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors.
Jocko Willink
The thing about hiking is that you can’t avoid the present tense for very long.
Suzanne Roberts, Spokane Mountaineers
Love many, trust few, but always paddle your own canoe.
English Adage
A man can be wise and keep a secret.
But it’s the wise man that doesn’t have to keep
a secret.
8.2020. G. Calin. Chris O’Donnell, NCIS LA
"A leader takes people where they want to go.
A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go,
but ought to be there."
Rosalyn Carter
"We all have our time machines.
Some take us back; they're called emotions.
Some take us forward; they're called dreams."
Jeremy Irons
A Democrat is a Republican,
that spent a night in jail.
KSPS
Everybody has a plan,
Until they get hit in the face.
Mike Tyson
"The people of these United States are the rightful master of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln
The average person uses one 100 foot tall Douglas Fir each year in paper goods alone.
Unknown
Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone.
Unknown
How can there be self-help groups?
Unknown
REMEMBER: You don't stop laughing because you are old.
You grow old because you stop laughing.
Unknown
"If fingers have fingernails....shouldn't thumbs have thumbtacks?"
dennis the menace. 11.2017
Have you heard of ‘Mind over matter”.
If you don't mind, it doesn’t matter.
Mark Twain
“Don’t sit around doing nothing.
Get up and do something.”
Ida Keeling
103 Year Old Marathoner
“ Can’t Nothing Bring Me Down” Book
As important as these opportunities are, it is also critical that we have places “to hear ourselves think,” away from the growing clamor of the planet. “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” wrote Henry Thoreau. It is just as true today as when he penned that nearly 200 years ago.
Henry David Thorea
“Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.”
Unknown
FOG
Obviously, it’s no fun to ski in it.
But to see the snow rimmed trees,
drifting in and out of its grey,
is like a revisioning it’s beauty,
time and time again.
chic. 12.25.2018
As Christmas on the slopes of Silver Mountain,
draws to a close, I hope our nation rises from our
President’s insanity,
to shine,
in all its greatness.
chic. 12.25.2018