Cattle

 "If you are not interested in your own country's problems, then what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself."

(Mehmet Murat Ilden)

"Just because a cow stands in a field all day doesn't make it a philosopher."

(Vaseem Khan)

Cattle

"The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo the other milk."

 (Ogden Nash)

"Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger."

(Lady Gaga)

Market

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

(Virginia Woolf)

 

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask whats for lunch."

(Orson Welles)

Early am

 "It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be non alike."

(Thomas Browne)

"The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the faces of man."

(Daniel J Rice)

Bushy Park

 "You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul."

(Max Ehrmann)

"You know me, I think there should be a big old tree right there. And lets give him a friend. Everybody needs a friend.

(Bob Ross)

Merry Christmas

 Thank you for visiting the Fine Line and the Studio Blog, in what has been a remarkable and difficult year for us all. I hope that you all have as good a Christmas  as possible and that 2021 brings all the good things that you wish for. 

Stay Safe

Ian

A lane in Hampshire

 "I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

(Henry David Thoreau)

"No spring or summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

(John Donne)

Burnham Beeches

"When great trees fall,

rocks on distant hills shudder,

lions hunker down

in tall grasses,

and even elephants

lumber after safety."

(Mayer Angelou)

"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year."

(Chad Sugg)