A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.  ~Anne Taylor Fleming

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If there is one season that can bring both a smile and frown to your face, it has to be summer. When summer starts you smile, when it ends you definitely frown! Gone is yet another summer, the summer of 2009. When I was a child, grown ups always warned me, “the older you get the faster time flies.” I just thought maybe they were crazy or trying to just put the fear in me for some unnecessary reason. Well, I’m not too sure if someone, somewhere is messing with the clocks and seasons, but that advice seems to be ringing very loud and clear in my ears these days. Where does all that time go? Is there a time black hole somewhere that we don’t know about?

My philosophy is that a person truly can’t afford and shouldn’t waste even a single day of summer or their life for that matter! It seems now that I’m 40, that the summer season seems to pass within weeks not months. By July 1st, the summer is already over. The days are already getting shorter and in three weeks the first weak leaves descend to the still green lush lawn, turn yellow and freak the heck out of us all out because we all know the sad predicament we’re all in by living in the north.

Enjoy every second of the fall, stay up all night if you have to because by next weekend you might be scrambling through your winter clothing boxes for your “puff coat” and winter boots. Oh and a winter tip… A bank card works well in a pinch for scraping a frosty windshield. Oh, don’t worry so much, soon it’ll be January and there will only be five months of winter left. Don’t blame me!

This happy couple approached me in Sir Winston Churchill Square, downtown Edmonton to take a photo of them because they had just minutes earlier tied the knot at city hall. So beautiful!

As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.
Lester B. Pearson

This double decker bus is parked just outside of Saskatoon. Every time I’m in the area I stop by to visit with this oldie goldie and have my photo taken beside it.

One of these days when and if I make it big, I’m going to buy it and drive it from coast to coast with the head phones up high!

Dogs have given us their absolute all.  We are the center of their universe.  We are the focus of their love and faith and trust.  They serve us in return for scraps.  It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.  ~Roger Caras

“That little bird has chosen his shelter.

Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds.

Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow’s lodging,

calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.”

– Martin Luther

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.  ~Stacia Tauscher

That was my country—Terrible winds and a wonderful emptiness.

– Georgia O’Keefe

“Writing is the supreme solace.” William Somerset Maugham quote