I found these at Better Photo as I was looking for links to post to Bewitching Vagabond tonight. I started looking for tips for beginners using scanners.

"We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill." - James McNeill Whistler

"A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever." - Mark Twain

"You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it." - Pentax advertisement

"Life is like a good black and white photograph, there's black, there's white, and lots of shades in between." - Karl Heiner

"A good photograph is knowing where to stand." - Ansel Adams

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. - Anonymous

Senseless photographers practice random acts of beauty; intelligent photographers practice consistent acts of selflessness.

"A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see." - Roland Barthes

I've just signed up for the 3 months of AOL Canada so I could get online. If it works out I could keep it. I think it will at least be interesting to explore AOL while I'm here anyway.

Best of all I am back online after the move back to Ontario. I can only get online in the evening and nights due to having just one phone line. That's a pain but I can handle it. Hoping it won't be long before I find a job, car and place to move to, my own place.

Found in the bottom of a purse...

You will be awarded some great honor.

You have a sense of adventure.

A pleasant surprise is in store for you.

You will be unusually successful in business.

You take a reverent attitude towards life and are most capable in the guidance of others.

"Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat." Prince Philip of England.

"Change is the only evidence of life." Evelyn Waugh.

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living." Gail Sheehy.

"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator." Robert R. Kennedy.

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family." Anthony Brandt.

"Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion." Leo Buscaglia.

Spa Secret: Lime and Ginger Salt Glow

Pulverize 1/4 cup fresh ginger root in a blender; add 1/2 cup table salt. Mix in juice from two limes and 1/2 cup warmed vegetable oil to make a soft but gritty paste. Use to exfoliate hands, feet and rough spots such as elbows, massaging into skin with gentle circular motions. Rinse with warm water spiked with squirts of lime.

Sounds nice to me. Made me look for ginger and lime recipes online.

Here is one to try this Fall.

Ginger-Lime Sweet Potatoes

From Cooking Light magazine. 1/8 cup all-purpose flour 5 cups thinly sliced peeled sweet potato 1/8 cup butter 1/8 cup packed light brown sugar 1/2 tablespoon lime rind 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice 1/2 tablespoon grated orange rind 1/2 tablespoon grated peeled fresh ginger 1/2 teaspoon low-sodium soy sauce 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon black pepper Cooking spray

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour and potato in a large bowl; toss well. Melt butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Add sugar and next seven ingredients (sugar through pepper); cook 4 minutes; combine potato mixture; toss well. Spoon mixture into a shallow 2-quart casserole dish coated with cooking spray. Cover and bake at 425 degrees for 55 minutes or until tender. Let stand 10 minutes. Yield: 6 servings.

"Nothing's beautiful from every point of view." Horace.

"The main purpose of a garden is to give the owner the best and highest kind of earthy pleasure." Gertrude Jekyll.

"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

"Hurt not the Earth, Neither the Sea, nor the Trees."

"You don't have a garden just for yourself. You have it to share." Augusta Carter.

"If you pray for rain be prepared to deal with some mud."

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." Henry David Thoreau.

"Happiness must grow in one's own garden."

"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer." Anne Morrow Lindbergh.