“You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.”  ~ Hal Borland

      Aperture: f/2.8      Credit: ROBERT REDDING      Camera: NIKON D700      Taken: 24 July, 2009      Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2009 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED      Focal length: 200 mm      ISO: 200      Shutter speed: 1/13 s

Time’s fun when you’re having flies !!   ~Kermit the Frog

      Aperture: f/2.8      Credit: ROBERT REDDING      Camera: NIKON D700      Taken: 24 July, 2009      Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2009 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED      Focal length: 200 mm      ISO: 200      Shutter speed: 1/500 s

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”   ~John Muir

      Aperture: f/7.1      Camera: NIKON D200      Taken: 20 May, 2007      Focal length: 50 mm      ISO: 100      Shutter speed: 1/8 s

“You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.” ~ Chuck Tanner

      Aperture: f/25      Camera: NIKON D200      Taken: 20 May, 2007      Focal length: 35 mm      ISO: 100      Shutter speed: 10 s

“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that

wants to wallow in the mud.”  ~ Carl Sandburg

      Aperture: f/8      Camera: NIKON D200      Taken: 22 May, 2008      Focal length: 70 mm      ISO: 400      Shutter speed: 1/125 s

“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”    ~ Coolidge, Calvin

      Aperture: f/8      Camera: NIKON D70      Taken: 24 May, 2006      Focal length: 105 mm      Shutter speed: 1/320 s

“Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.”   ~ John Naisbitt

      Aperture: f/11      Camera: NIKON D70      Taken: 4 July, 2005      Focal length: 200 mm      Shutter speed: 1/125 s

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.  ~Henry Miller

      Aperture: f/22      Camera: NIKON D70      Taken: 5 March, 2006      Focal length: 18 mm      Shutter speed: 1/13 s

“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.”  ~ Isaac Newton

      Aperture: f/22      Camera: NIKON D70      Taken: 23 October, 2006      Focal length: 18 mm      Shutter speed: 1/250 s

“The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes”

      Aperture: f/13      Camera: NIKON D70      Taken: 17 October, 2005      Focal length: 18 mm      Shutter speed: 1/40 s