Mack truck radiator cap

On the road again
I just can't wait to get on the road again
      From the song, On the Road Again
      by Willie Nelson

Rainy September morning

 




Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
     from the poem, The Rainy Day
     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Autumn leaves

I see a whale and the whale sees me.

The last flowers of fall

 


What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.  These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison

Swing

          September.

Milkweed

 The milkweed pods are breaking,

And the bits of silken down

Float off upon the autumn breeze

Across the meadows brown.

       From The Milkweed

       by Cecil Cavendish

Old gravestone

The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill;
The graveyard draws the living still,
But never anymore the dead.
      From In a Disused Graveyard
      by Robert Frost

signs

 Hmmmm?

Which way to go?

Column

 

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Louis Kahn

Old bird feeder

"Feed the birds; those little acts of kindness will literally bring love and beauty to your backyard."

Martin Suarez

Harvest

Oh, it is good with hand and brain
To gladly  till the chosen soil,
And after honest sweat and strain
To see the harvest of one's toil.
        From the poem Oh, It Is Good
        by Robert Service

Old water pump

The shadows sway and seem to say,
tonight we pray for water,
cool water.
And way up there
He'll hear our prayer
and show us where there's water,
cool, clear, water

          From Cool Water

          lyrics by Bob Nolan

Old house

 The old house is still standing,

though the paint is cracked and dry,

And there's the old oak tree

that I used to play on.

from The Green Green Grass of Home

Lyrics by Curly Putman

The Golden Boy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Official name: Eternal Youth

sculpted by Georges Gardet of Paris in 1918

In honour of the first day of school

This is the back of the Administration building at the University of Manitoba.  I sometimes wonder how many of the students understand the history of this place, or the significance of the words "Agricultural College".

Fence post

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in

From the song, Don't fence me in 

by Cole Porter

Slow Down

Sometimes, the things one sees along the road are just too good not to share.

No other words are necessary.

Cows

...And blown by all the winds that pass

And wet with all the showers,

She walks among the meadow grass

And eats the meadow flowers.

   from The Cows by Robert Louis Stevenson