25 August, 2013
654_Kitchen Garden
Today's topic is Kitchen Garden.
Today is World Kitchen Garden Day
More HERE and HERE.
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
~ George Bernard Shaw
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
~ Alice Walker
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
~ Francis Bacon
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
~ Alfred Austin
Happy Drawing! :)
24 August, 2013
Sweet Dreams
n enjoy dis lovely number by Brian Adamshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMMG6ykb_7U
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Today's topic is Dream.
Today is International Day of Dreamers.
More HERE and HERE.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
~ Walt Disney
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
~ Colin Powell
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
~ James Dean
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
~ Khalil Gibran
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
~ Jesse Owens
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
~ Les Brown
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
~ Jack Kerouac
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
~ Joel Osteen
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
~ Robert Kennedy
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
~ Harriet Tubman
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
~ T. E. Lawrence
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Happy Drawing! :)
23 August, 2013
652_Claude DeBussy
Today's topic is Claude DeBussy.
A google doodle in his honour HERE.
More info on DeBussy HERE
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
~ Claude Debussy
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
~ Claude Debussy
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
~ Claude Debussy
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
~ Claude Debussy
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
~ Claude Debussy
Music is the silence between the notes.
~ Claude Debussy
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
~ Claude Debussy
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
~ Claude Debussy
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
~ Claude Debussy
Happy Drawing! :)
22 August, 2013
The Terrace
651_Home
Today's topic is Home.
Home is where the heart is.
~ Pliny the Elder
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Where thou art, that is home.
~ Emily Dickinson
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
~ Thomas Fuller
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
~ Jane Austen
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
~ Meister Eckhart
Happy Drawing! :)
21 August, 2013
What would world be without them
Happy Raksha Bandhan all
Dylan Thomas
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother ...
Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
Anna Quindlan
650_Raksha Bandhan
Today's topic is Raksha Bandhan.
More HERE.
How do people make it through life without a sister?
~ Sara Corpening
Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there.
~ Amy Li
Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.
~ Pam Brown
Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
~ Margaret Meed
Sisters are for sharing laughter and wiping tears.
~ Author Unknown
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
~ Clara Ortega
A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
~ Marion C. Garretty
Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister.
~ Alice Walker
You can kid the world. But not your sister.
~ Charlotte Gray
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.
~ Toni Morrison
What's the good of news if you haven't a sister to share it?
~ Jenny DeVries
Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
~ Margaret Mead
I know some sisters who only see each other on Mother's Day and some who will never speak again. But most are like my sister and me... linked by volatile love, best friends who make other best friends ever so slightly less best.
~ Patricia Volk
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.
~ Pam Brown
It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!
~ Author Unknown
Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.
~ Pam Brown
One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.
~ Betsy Cohen
We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.
~ Charlotte Gray
Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.
~ Katherine Mansfield
A sister smiles when one tells one's stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added.
~ Chris Montaigne
More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.
~ Linda Sunshine
My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.
~ Linda Sunshine
Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.
~ Deborah Moggach
You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.
~ Deborah Moggach
She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child.
~ Barbara Alpert
She takes my hand and leads me along paths I would not have dared explore alone.
~ Maya V. Patel
Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.
~ Gail Sheeny, from "Sisters"
A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.
~ Elizabeth Fishel
Sisters are blossoms in the garden of life.
~ Author Unknown
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.
~ Pam Brown
My sisters have taught me how to live.
~ George Wasserstein
Happy Drawing! :)
20 August, 2013
Busy Bee or Humming Bird?
Infromation source :internet
They’re pretty industrious but not as busy as some other animals. A honeybee might work anywhere from just a few hours a day to about 12, depending on its role in the beehive. For example, worker bees tasked with the daily foraging of nectar or pollen generally spend nearly every hour of daylight outside—but as soon as it gets dark they get to head back to the nest and relax. (Honeybees don’t sleep the same way that humans do—they don’t have eyelids, for one—but they do stop moving, relax their muscles, and let their antennae gradually slump.) Worker bees whose duties lie within the nest don’t have it easy, either—they stay a little busy around the clock, tending to the honeycombs, fanning their wings to keep the nest cool, but they do take frequent breaks. Queens are also busy, if relatively immobile, laying more than 1,000 eggs each day. Drones, by contrast, are quite lazy. They don’t leave the hive until early afternoon, at which time they carouse around in packs, and when they get home just a few hours later, they rely on the worker bees to feed them.
To determine which animals are really the hardest working, consider the ones with the highest metabolic demands. Some of these animals, such as shrews and hummingbirds, must busy themselves enough to eat nearly their whole weight in food every day.
649_Busy
Today's topic is Busy.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
~ John Lennon
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
~ Socrates
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
~ Lee Iacocca
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~ Dale Carnegie
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
~ Lucille Ball
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
~ Jane Austen
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
~ T. D. Jakes
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
~ Stephen King
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
~ Lucille Ball
Happy Drawing! :)
19 August, 2013
648_Crazy
Today's topic is Crazy.
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
~ Eminem
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
~ Albert Einstein
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
~ Charles Bukowski
I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
~ Niels Bohr
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
~ H. L. Mencken
I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
~ Waylon Jennings
I live in a crazy time.
~ Anne Frank
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
~ Jim Harrison
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Happy Drawing! :)
18 August, 2013
647_Lazy
Today's topic is Lazy.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
~ Albert Einstein
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
~ Bob Hope
There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
~ Doug Coupland
Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
~ Campbell Scott
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
~ Lech Walesa
I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
~ Bjork
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
~ Helena Rubinstein
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
~ W. H. Auden
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
~ Jesse Jackson
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
~ Ann Rule
Happy Drawing! :)
17 August, 2013
A voice of my own
Found this heart-shaped stone recently with cracks, smooth and rough textures.
I think the bravest thing to do could be working on our own voice.
646_Bravery
Today's topic is Bravery.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
~ Omar N. Bradley
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
~ Robert Anthony
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
~ Richard Thompson
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
~ Wendell Phillips
It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
~ Amber Heard
Happy Drawing! :)
16 August, 2013
My Family ...my responsibility
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i am responsible for
every compliment, every encouragement,
every harsh word, every unmentioned feeling
to my fellow beings in thought, word or drawing
expressed or unexpressed
645_Responsibility
Today's topic is Responsibility.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
~ Khalil Gibran
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
~ Dalai Lama
The price of greatness is responsibility.
~ Winston Churchill
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
~ Les Brown
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
~ Jim Rohn
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
~ Sigmund Freud
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
~ Bob Dylan
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
~ Tony Robbins
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
~ Les Brown
Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
~ Mitt Romney
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
~ Denis Waitley
Happy Drawing! :)
15 August, 2013
644_Independence Day
Today's topic is Independence Day.
"Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it".
~ Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.'
~Jawaharlal Nehru
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Where the mind is without fear and the head held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Happy Drawing! :)
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Happy Drawing! :)
14 August, 2013
The Revolutionary!
V. O. Chidambaram Pillai
a quick sketch
V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, popularly known by his initials, V.O.C. -> Vandanam. Olagantha Pillai. Chidambaram Pillai was an Indian freedom fighter born on 5 September 1872 in Vandanam (a small village) is very near to Ottapidaram, Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu State of India. He was a prominent lawyer, and a trade union leader.
He gets credit for launching the first indigenous Indian shipping service between Tuticorin and Colombo with the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, competing against British ships.
He was an Indian National Congress (INC) member, later charged with sedition by the British government and sentenced to life imprisonment;
his barrister license was stripped.
643_Freedom Fighters
Today's topic is Freedom Fighters.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Where the mind is without fear and the head held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Happy Drawing! :)
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Happy Drawing! :)
13 August, 2013
left hand as model
12 August, 2013
641_Vegetables
Today's topic is Vegetables.
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
~ Jim Davis
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
~ Michelle Obama
Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.
~ Robert Mugabe
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
~ Doug Larson
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
~ Gertrude Stein
I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.
~ Salma Hayek
Soups are a great way to introduce a lot of vegetables to kids. Stir-fries, too, because they contain so many different shapes and colors.
~ Emeril Lagasse
Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
~ Bobby Flay
A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.
~ Emeril Lagasse
I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.
~ Miranda Lambert
So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.
~ Martin Yan
I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It's not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.
~ Paula Deen
So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
~ Paul McCartney
Happy Drawing! :)
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