Aaaah, October - Baseball and Halloween. It's National Pumpkin Day.

"...nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won..." Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Portrait: Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Wellesley, aged 26, in the 33rd Regiment.

"There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum." Florence King

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour William Blake - Auguries of Innocence

Some to Misery are Born Every Morn and every Night Some are Born to sweet delight Some are Born to sweet delight Some are Born to Endless Night William Blake - Auguries of Innocence

Amanda Blake and James Arness having fun on a break.

Man was made for Joy & Woe And when this we rightly know Thro the World we safely go Joy & Woe are woven fine A Clothing for the soul divine Under every grief & pine Runs a joy with silken twine William Blake - AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE

“Whoever is merciful toward the cruel will ultimately become cruel toward the merciful.” Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 1

Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul; The mind's the standard of the man. Isaac Watts, "Father of English Hymnody"

Dominance Cornelius Warmerdam vaulted 15 feet 43 times in competition, while no other vaulter cleared the mark a single time! Warmerdam surpassed the pole vault record seven times in a four-year span, and three of those marks were ratified as world records.

As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing, never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” William Faulkner

Flatiron Building

Vampire slayer Professor Van Helsing played by Edward Van Sloan.

Russell Kirk’s home, Piety Hill, Mecosta, Michigan.

Anyone remember Don Martin's art in Mad Magazine. I remember buying Mad at Helmke's Theo Market for .25 cents. "Our Price 25c Cheap"