Ford Hook Pond ~ I Dash For This Dish

Who wouldn't want to dive into this dish. I certainly take that dip every chance I get. I love to cook, love to eat and most especially love to serve up an eye pleasing and wonderfully tasty platter. One of the best ways I've found for making dining a delight is to make the dish beautiful as well as delicious. You know what you should eat and what you should not. Just group a few of your favorite "good foods' together and present them artfully. Add a nice glaze of flavor, something to savor. You then have a winner and you're instantly thinner. Just a few word to eat by, from a bowl of Mulligan's Stew.

Don't Fear The Edge of Near ~ Time To Sail

I caught this flash of time this morning and it brought me a great sense of peace. Bearing tons of stress on one's mind and frame over time can begin to wear you down. Learning to relieve the weight of such life bound stress can certainly refresh the soul. We all have problems, mine seem to mostly revolve around money or the lack of it, but I am certainly not the only crew member on that boat. However, looking at a scene such as this in the early dawn light, helps one to see a clearer horizon. A new uncharted lake lays before me, asking only that I get out of the sinking vessel that I am in and build my own sailing craft. Launch into the lake and chart your own course to your own new horizons, at dawn on a new day.

Been There and You Haven't ~ Wiseguy

I took this photo of Jonathan Seagull this morning while he was taking a break from his travels. I also noticed he had an injured leg, for he was standing on just one, with the other just dangling. I felt sorry fot the little guy, even though he presented a proud pose. Yes, he's been places, seen lots of interesting sights I can not even imagine. He gave me pause to ponder that even with his disability he could still do the things that made him free. Fly, yes fly wherever he wanted, whenever he wanted. But he didn't fly away from me as I approached much closer with my camera to take his portrait. No he trusted I was a kindred spirit, who also wanted to fly, to be free like he. So he let me take his picture, because he probably new deep down that I would put him in my blog tonight and with a bit of luck some of his long lost kin might see him in cyberspace, the one space he'd never flown.