Watch Your Step

 The Photos below are from our hike to Spruce Flats Waterfalls in the Great Smoky Mountains.

“Watch where you step
                            For where you step
                                      May lie
                            In the circle of danger
                                  Or friendship
                                  Or happiness
                                  Or goodness

                           Watch where you step
                     Watch where your mind wanders
                        Watch what you think about
                               Watch your future
                             Because it will help you
                 Become the person you dream of being

                            Watch where you step
                             It changes your future
                               It changes your fate
                                 Listen to others
                          They will guide your walk
                              Like signs on a road
                        They will tell you where to go
                                   Where to step

                            Watch where you step
                    In order to achieve your dreams
                   And make the impossible possible

                           Watch where you step
                                  Be cautious
                             It'll help you prosper
                        In the future of your dreams

                          Watch your step closely
                       Like a hawk eyeing it's prey
               One moment your mind will be aware
                           Of what you're doing
                          And the next moment
                                     It will not

                              Watch where you step
                              That's the only way
                            You'll get what you want
                           If you're nice to somebody
                                       If you care
                                If you respect others
                               It all revolves in a circle

                             So watch where you step
                                To have a happy life
                                Think before you act
                                   And you'll always
                                           Prosper” Anika, 10

Have a Great Day….

Spruce Flats Falls… Spruce Flats Falls is a beautiful waterfall located in the Tremont section of the Great Smoky Mountains. The trail to reach the falls begins at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont Read More

 OK.. one last thought from an email. Thanks Charlie

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Thought For Today

 Hope you have a “Quality Time” day.. This photo came to me in in an email and I like it.

 I should have been wearing a cowboy hat and belt buckle.. LOL

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Nostalgia & Nostalgia

Nos·tal·gia   noun

A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.

1. "I was overcome with acute nostalgia for my days in college"

2. "a nostalgia for traditional values"

   • something done or presented in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia.

   

“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.” ― Rob Sheffield

“There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.” ― David Benioff

 

“I felt a pang -- a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before.
It was homesickness.
Now, even more than I had earlier when I'd first glimpsed it, I longed to be transported into that quiet little landscape, to walk up the path, to take a key from my pocket and open the cottage door, to sit down by the fireplace, to wrap my arms around myself, and to stay there forever and ever.” ― Alan Bradley,

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. Doug Larson

Joe Todd says,”Have a great day.”

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Paraprosdokians & The Back Roads of Ohio

A “Sunday Drive” post.

“A paraprosdokian /pærəprɒsˈdoʊkiən/ is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect.”

Some people are like Slinkies ... not really good for anything, but you can't help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.

Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.

 I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars but check when you say the paint is wet?

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Some people hear voices. Some see invisible people. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

  I drove up to the one stoplight in a nearby town today and saw the entire police force (2?) with lights flashing, I studied the scene. On one side of the street, men are throwing straps over a semi load of hay. Further down 3 men are rolling one huge bale of hay down the street. "Wow!"  "I'm glad I quit drinking. Look at the tests they're giving now."

Paraprosdokians & The Back Roads of Ohio..  A “Sunday Drive” post.

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***All photos were taken near Lancaster,Ohio on Sunday 1/11/2015.. Many are near Clear Creek Metro Park*****

It’s October.. Celebrate

 Have a “QUALITY TIME” October…

First: Happy Birthday Dad.. Joseph B.  Fraker (1916 - 1998).. Born on October 3, 1916

Second: Janis Joplin’s Mercedes Benz.. Oct. 1, 1970 at the Sunset Sound recording studio in Los Angeles. Janis Joplin asks producer Paul Rothchild to roll tape. She has a song she’d like to sing. Read More

 

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills. Janis Joplin…….

Robert Service my favorite poet.

Third:: This year's National Poetry Day Thursday 2 October.  National Poetry Day is a British campaign to promote poetry, including public performances.  National Poetry Day was founded in 1994 by William Sieghart. It takes place annually in the UK and Ireland on the first Thursday of October. Since its inception, it has engaged millions of people across the country with live events, classroom activities and broadcasts. Read More ( Thank You U.K. )

The Men that Don't Fit In
by: Robert W. Service

There's A race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
If they just went straight they might go far,
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.  READ MORE

AND::: I will leave you with this thought from a much younger Joe Todd…

Thanks for stopping by… I guess I’m still “out there” a wandering……

 Have a “QUALITY TIME” October…

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How do you fix a jack-o-lantern?
With a pumpkin patch.