Clingmans Dome (On a Clear Day) from My Quality Time

  At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is Great Smoky Mountains National Park's highest point. It is the highest point in Tennessee, and the second highest point east of the Mississippi. Only North Carolina's Mt. Mitchell (6,684 feet) rises higher. READ MORE

Linda and I were at the summit of Clingmans Dome on Easter 2015. A group of Christian Chinese from Atlanta sang “Glory To God” in Chinese on this beautiful day. (so says the ranger))

One of World's Coolest Observation Decks

A big “Shout Out”  to everyone from Joe Todd & Linda from the Summit of Clingmans Dome. ( Linda is so beautiful I try to keep her in the shadows so she doesn’t “steal the show” LOL)

Today was a clear day,but the ranger said,” The sky is battered by some kind of weather condition - rains and drizzles and nebulous fogs at least fifty percent of the time.”

Maybe a Sky Watch Friday post or maybe not. I always feel a little bad if I don’t get around to other great skywatch posts to comment.

Have a great day…..

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Clingmans Dome:: Ranked #2 of 34 (Trip Advisor Great Smoky Mountains}

Going to Bob Dylan Concert

 HOPE YOU ENJOY THE POST…

"Bob Dylan in Toronto2" by Jean-Luc Ourlin

Dylan launched into a discourse on virtue. “People’s lives today are filled on so many levels with vice and the trappings of it,” he said. “Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don’t survive. We don’t see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it on a daily basis, everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life and the mockery of it, everywhere we look.” READ MORE

 We are  “happy campers”…

Going:: Bob Dylan

Ohio Theatre, Columbus, OH
Sat, May 16, 2015 08:00 PM

 Have a great day… and visit bobbylan.com

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Thoughts from Nathan Johnson, Minister March 1925

 

 

March 1925
 

 

 

The Wild White Rose  By Ellen H. Willis
 
Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for.—Job 6:8.
 
It was peeping through the brambles, that little wild white rose,
Where the hawthorn hedge was planted, my garden to enclose.
All beyond was fern and heather, on the breezy, open moor;
All within was sun and shelter, and the wealth of beauty's store.
But I did not heed the fragrance of flow'ret or of tree,
For my eyes were on that rosebud, and it grew too high for me.
In vain I strove to reach it through the tangled mass of green,
It only smiled and nodded behind its thorny screen.
Yet through that summer morning I lingered near the spot:
Oh, why do things seem sweeter if we possess them not?
My garden buds were blooming, but all that I could see
Was that little mocking wild rose, hanging just too high for me.
So in life's wider garden there are buds of promise, too,
Beyond our reach to gather, but not beyond our view;
And like the little charmer that tempted me astray,
They steal out half the brightness of many a summer's day.
Oh, hearts that fail with longing for some forbidden tree,
Look up and learn a lesson from my white rose and me.
'Tis wiser far to number the blessings at my feet,
Than ever to be sighing for just one bud more sweet.
My sunbeams and my shadows fall from a pierced Hand,
I can surely trust His wisdom since His heart I understand;
And maybe in the morning, when His blessed face I see,
He will tell me why my white rose grew just too high for me.

 
 

 

 

Have a Great Day

The Prohibition Platform For Ohio… Daniel A.Poling

 A Little “Quality Time” History of Ohio.

Hi everyone. I ran across some old documents that belonged to My Great Grandfather The Reverend  Nathan Johnson. This was my first attempt at enlarging/scanning and modifying the document for use in a blog post.

NOTE: Daniel A. Poling::  In 1912 he was the Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of Ohio (he lost, but remained an unwavering teetotaler).

• Born: 30 Nov 1884, Portland, Oregon
• Marriage (1): Susan Jane Vandersall on 25 Sep 1906
• Died: 7 Feb 1968, Philadelphia, PA at age 83
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The Prohibition Platform For Ohio… Daniel A.Poling

Silently A Flower Blooms

Have a Quality Time Day

 

Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
The world of the flower, the whole of
the world is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower, the truth
of the blossom:
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.
~ Zenkei Shibayama

 Now go out there and enjoy the day.

 That’s all for today

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A Little about Bob D.

Hi everyone… It has been a tough winter in many ways. The weather has really sucked to say the least and many of my friends have had serious health problems.. Asking for prayers for Jim G.  Charlie K. Tom K. & Vikki H.

Check out::  Bob Dylan Official Site

The photo above was taken at New Smyrna Beach Florida where Linda and I had the opportunity to spend a week in the sunshine (usually) and warm weather. I was going to do a Footprints In The Sand post but, there are hundreds and hundreds of those photos on the web. This is a little different… I hope you enjoy.. If interested make sure to check out Bob Dylan Official Site.

Linda and I wish you a great day… A Quality Time day

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"The Night We Called It A Day"
(originally by Frank Sinatra) LYRICS

LIFE'S CIRCLE

 

 

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Thanks Charlie

 

 

 

 

Life Cycle

 

Growing up is a weird notion to wrap your mind around. As you go through life, your perspectives on almost everything will change. How you define success will change as well. Things that you thought were important at the age of 35 will be useless when you're 65. You may not realize it now, but everything will shift.

 

 

At age 4 success is not peeing in your pants.

 

 

At age 12 success is having friends.

 

 

 

At age 16 success is having a drivers license.

 

 

At age 20 success is having sex.

 

 

 

At age 35 success is having money.

 

 

 

 

At age 50 success is having money.

 

 

 

At age 60 success is having sex.

 

 

 

At age 70 success is having a drivers license.

 

 

 

At age 75 success is having friends.

 

 

 

At age 80 success is not peeing in your pants.

 

 

It all comes full circle, whether you like it or not.

Share this hilarious truth about life with others.

 

 

May you always have

Love to Share,

Health to Spare, and

Friends who Care..

 

 

FW: 12 pounds of Bananas

 

 

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A little old lady is sitting in the violin section, fumbling for notes in a difficult key signature. After a few minutes the conductor becomes so enraged that he hits her on the head with his music stand, and the poor old dear dies instantly. Not surprisingly, he is convicted and put on death row. Just before he is to be electrocuted, his last request is for 12 pounds of bananas, which he devours. They strap him into the chair, flip the switch, and he just sits there, smiling. According to tradition, this is considered a reprieve from God and he is freed.
Somehow he gets his old job back, and he is happily conducting the orchestra when the trumpet player goes sharp. Enraged, he lunges out with his baton, skewering the offender's neck and killing him. Again, he is convicted and sent to death row. He again eats the 12 pounds of bananas, and lo and behold, the electricity does not harm him. This time the executioner cleans the contacts, makes him sit in a bucket of water; he tries everything - but the conductor won't die. So again, he is set free.
Amazingly he regains his job. It takes him 1 day to lose his temper and beat to death a trombonist. He returns to death row, eats the bananas, and survives the electrocution. At this point, the executioner can take no more - his professional pride has been hurt.
Before setting our friend free again, he asks him his secret, "What is it with the bananas?"
"Oh, the bananas have nothing to do with it," replies our friend. "I'm just a bad conductor."
 
 

 

 

 


 
 

A Summer Landscape With Harvesters.. A detailed look

 A My Quality Time museum post from The Toledo Museum Of Art.

The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio, United States. It houses a collection of more than 30,000 objects. READ MORE

A Summer Landscape With Harvesters

the big picture.

Now a detailed look:::

“A Summer Landscape with Harvesters is the largest and most spectacular of De Momper s harvest scenes and was likely part of a series.”

“Roger Berkowitz, museum director, said he fully expects the painting to become a favorite among visitors. “It is a spectacular, dramatic scene with over 70 figures engaged in a variety of intriguing activities of work and rest.”
Read More… A favorite of mine for sure….

Paintings by Joos de Momper (II)

 Hope you enjoyed this My Quality Time museum post and the painting. NOW::::  One of the smaller photos above is not in the painting.. Which photo is it?????

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On a personal note:: I was in Toledo visiting an old friend Tom K. He has been battling colorectal cancer for about three years and is having a “rough” time of it. Pleas keep Tom K. in your prayers. Also, when I got back to Lancaster my good friend Jim G. was rushed to the emergency room.  Please keep Jim G. in your prayers. As I have often said.”All we have is today let’s make the best of it.”… Jim G. came through emergency stomach surgery and is doing as well as can be expected at this time… Prayers Work…and so do surgeons…

 A My Quality Time museum post from The Toledo Museum Of Art.