animals – Nothing Gilded, Nothing Gained-Author Adrienne Morris

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” Lewis Carroll

QUOTE: “A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hoax: Man on the Moon Has Wings

AND BEAVERS CRADLE THEIR BABIES IN THEIR ARMS on the moon! READ ABOUT THE GREAT MOON HOAX! CLICK HERE for a long list with links to other proven hoaxes.

Dogs in Art

DOG ART DOG ART FETCHES BIG MONEY

QUOTE: “Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.” Jules Feiffer

QUOTE:”If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington

God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses. ~R.B. Cunninghame Graham, letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 1917

US Grant was the greatest equestrian president. Everyone says so! “He was a great horseman and sat his horse as if he were part of the horse, all one figure. There was never a movement of any description that was not masterful and graceful. No one ever saw him disturbed in any way, that is,…

Many people have sighed for the ‘good old days’ and regretted the ‘passing of the horse,’ but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses. ~C.W. Anderson

Evil Seals Killed the Natives! Kill the Seals!!

The pristine heaven on earth created by some people who may have gotten to the “new” world first was destroyed by adorable, playful tricksters. Yes, before that ugly Columbus came there was the evil seal laughing as it spread tuberculosis. I wonder as we go to war with a group of crazies we helped create…

Forgotten Men and Mules Set To Music

Here’s what happens when you visit a military museum instead of going on a Christmas house tour in December: the usual melancholy of a fallen world. I promise next week will be all sweetness and light!