Happiness is....

....going on olllleeeeday with friends and their children :o)

For Photo Friday.

Summer

"There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart."

Celia Thaxter

For the Thursday Challenge.

Loud

"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails."

Richard Rybolt

Cityscape

A poor and repeated offering I'm afraid - Belfast, one day I will see more than the office, pub and hotel :o)

For Lensday.

Ball

For Pxite.

Well, it is shaped like a ball ;o)

White

"I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted."

Mae West

Health

"One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick."

Harold Kushner

For Photo Friday.

Wet

For the Thursday Challenge.

Ducks

For Tuesdays Photos.

True

"Perfection is the Helium."

Anon

For Moody Monday.

This piece of graffiti is on a footbridge in York, no idea if it's true or not ;o)

Symmetry

"If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it."

Upham

For Macroday.

Galloped

"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Balance

"So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I know it's an old one ;o)

For Pxite.

Automotive

Apologies for the brief hiatus, I have been 'oop north' attending a conference in sunny Scarborough and stopping off in York to see a friend. Anyway, I'm back now and will be catching up with all your sites over the weekend, whilst trying to ignore the World Cup :o)

For Photo Friday.

Speed

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

Mahatma Gandhi

Shady

For Moody Monday.

Orange

For See It Sunday.

Dangerous

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Martin Luther King Jr.

For Macroday.

Shadow

"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Square

For Pxite.

Childhood

Yep, it had to be another one :o)

For Lensday.

Bored

Canter

I went to the Derby on Saturday, so expect a few horsey pictures in the next few days :o)

Landscape

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

Marcel Proust

It is another old one, I'm afraid.

For Tuesdays Photos.

Simple

"Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be."

Jim Horning

Bunch

"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."

Eric Hoffer

Poppy

New

It's a new photo ;o) Not even close to being in the same league as Emma's.

For Photo Friday.

Transportation

Wasn't sure about this one, but at least it's a new one ;o)

For the Thursday Challenge.