C.A.Beach Photography: July 2010

the Brick House

"He that tries to recommend (Shakespere)

by select quotations,

will succeed like the pendant in "Hierocles",

who, when he offered his house for sale,

carried a brick in his pocket for a speciamen"

...

Samuel Johnson

(1709-1784)

the Arch

"Simplicity and Repose

are the qualities that measure

the true value of any work of art."

...

Frank Lloyd Wright

(1867-1959)

"In the childhood memories

of every good cook,

there is a large kitchen,

a warm stove,

a simmering pot,

and a MoM"

Master Matty Bottles

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our Light, not our Darkness

that most frightens us."

....

Marrianne Williamson

Capt'n of the Archangel

"My fate cannot be mastered;

it can only be collaborated with and thereby,

to some extant,

directed.

Nor am I the Captain of my Soul;

i am only it's nosiest passanger!"

....

Aldous Huxley

(1894-1963)

He's Giving you the "Eye"

"i have my "EYES" on you!!!...Hey Baby how you doin!?!""

"Harumph!...so thats whats behind the curatin!?!?"

Vanity of a Peacock

"People are crying up the rich and variegated plummage of the peacock....

...and he himself is blushing at his ugly feet!"

...

unknown

the DetroitZoo Polar Bear

The polar Bear never makes his bed;

He sleeps on a cake of ice instead.

He has no blanket, no quilt, no sheet

Except the rain and snow and sleet.

He drifts about on a white ice flow,

While cold winds howl and blizzards blow.

and the temprature drops to forty below.

The Polar Bear never makes his bed;

The blanket he pulls up over his head

Is lined with soft and feathery snow.

If he ever rose and turned on the light

He would find a world of bathtub white

And iceburgs floating thuogh the night

Polar Bear Poem by

William Jay Smith

the Detroit Tiger

"It is not part of a true culture to tame a Tiger,

anymore than it is to make a sheep ferocious"

Henry David Thoreau

I love sports. Whenever i can, i allways watch the Detroit Tigers on the Radio"

Gerald R. Ford

Dancing Bears Fountain (Detroit Zoo)

I may go out tomorrow if i can borrow a coat to wear,

Oh I'd step out in style with my sincere smile and my dancing bear,

Outrageous alarming courageous charming

Oh who would think a boy and a bear

Could be well accepted everywhere

It's just amazing how fair people can be

Seen at the nicest places where well fed faces all stop to stare

Making the grandest entrance is Simon Smith and his Dancing Bear

They'll love us, won't they?

They feed us, don't they?

Oh who would think a boy and a bear

Could be well accepted everywhere

It's amazing how fair people can be

Who needs money when your funny?

The big attraction everywhere

Will be Simon Smith and his Dancing Bear

It's Simon Smith and his amazing Dancing Bear

Randy Newman

American Bison

"Historically the Buffalo had more influence on Man than all other Plains animals combined.

It was life ,

food,

rainment

and shelter

to the Indians.

The Buffalo and the Plains Indians

lived together,

and they shall pass together."

...

Walter Prescott Webb

(1931)

Frozen Bear Butt

Advice from a Poalr Bear:

Live Large
Sniff out oppurtunities
learn some good icebreakers
be thick skinned
be fearless
appreciate long winter nights
keep it cool

sassy

Reflection of Buterflies

"just like the Butterfly....

...i too will awaken in my own time"

...

Deborah Chaskin

"She stands as the recognised sentinel of Liberty on the bulwarks of civilisation, flinging the free rays of her lighted torch out into the gloom of the world's continuous contentions, warning the enemies of human freedom against further conspiracies for it's suppression, and defending the ground it has all ready won for the enjoyment of the human race under divinely favourable conditions."

the New England Magizine
(1887)