Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Chloë at the dentist...

Here's our little princess, with her watermelon-flavored "happy air" (nitrous oxide) and glare-reducing shades! Ready for take-off! :-)

Monday, June 16, 2008

"Business is Business" - a poem

Here's a cool poem I came across on a worm-composting site...


Business Is Business

"Business is Business," the Little Man said,
"A battle where everything goes,
Where the only gospel is 'get ahead,'
And never spare friends or foes.
'Slay or be slain', is the slogan cold.
You must struggle and slash and tear,
For Business is Business, a fight for gold,
Where all that you do is fair!"

"Business is Business," the Big Man said,
"A battle to make of earth
A place to yield us more wine and bread,
More pleasure and joy and mirth.
There are still more bandits and buccaneers
Who are jungle-bred beasts of trade,
But their number dwindles with passing years
And dead is the code they made!"

"Business is Business," the Big Man said,
But it's something that's more, far more;
For it makes sweet gardens of deserts dead,
And cities it built now roar
Where once the deer and the gray wolf ran
From the pioneer's swift advance.
Business is Magic that toils for man.
Business is True Romance.

And those who make it a ruthless fight
Have only themselves to blame
If they feel no whit of the keen delight
In playing the Bigger Game,
The game that calls on the heart and head,
The best of man's strength and nerve.
"Business is Business," the Big Man said,
And that Business is to serve!

-- Berton Braley

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

A day of beating the heat(wave)

Here's our little "front-yard-water-park!"

Friday, May 09, 2008

Fort Hill Area - Eastham, MA

This is the home of this old whaler guy named Penniman. The arch over the entryway is an actual whale's jawbone! (It's about 12 feet high.)

Cape Cod

Today we're driving up Cape Cod...

Thursday, May 08, 2008

"The Shot Heard Round The World"



Today we're at Minute Man Natl Historic Park, site of the start of the American Revolution.

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

www.TrinityChurchBoston.org

Here we are in front of Trinity Church. Oh, the wonders of modern photography!

Boston

Here we are in Boston Common, the city's main park.