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“Everybody has a hot button. Who is pushing yours? While you probably cannot control that person, you CAN control the way you react to them” ~

In the Butterfly Garden at Mead Gardens in Winter Park ~ Please view in lightbox :) ...

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“The Smurfs are little blue people who live in magic mushrooms..... think about it” ~

We walked by this giant red mushroom that is outside The Rainforest Cafe, inside the Grapevine...

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"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear... not a feather to tickle the intellect" ~

~ Charles Lamb ~ (London, 10 February 1775 – Edmonton, 27 December 1834) was an...

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“He is a tall, grandly built man... she is tall and delicate. Both are narrow-faced with long, imperial noses; as they pose for pictures, it is a turkey buzzard sharing companionably with an egret” ~ Happy FRISKY Friday ~

~ Richard Eder ~ Richard Eder was for 20 years variously a foreign correspondent, a...

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"I will become a member of the Two-Headed Turtle Procrastinator Society Club.... if they ever get it organized...." ~ Happy FRISKY Friday ~

Turtle and alligators live together comfortably at Gatorland without fear of each other...... as long as both are well fed... lol

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“I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, “I am in here when you're walking around like that?” ~

~ Robin Williams (American actor) Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American...

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"Friendship is a teasured gift.... everytime I think of you I feel as thought I am getting richer and richer" ~

This is a Texas Star Hibiscus seen at the Dallas Arboretum and for you my dear friends :) ~ H *...

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"Yesterday, at a restaurant, I asked the waiter how he prepared the chicken. He replied, "We don't...we just tell it straight that it's going into the frying pan" ~ Happy FRISKY Friday ~

"Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only...

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"Why do Lorikeets do well in school? They are very bright" ~

Pretty Lorikeets went from branch to branch inside a screened-in room at Lorikket Landing at the...

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"Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. She won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although she may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling" ~

~Helen Powers, Hastings-On-Hudson, NY, March 26, 2010 /Cambridge Who's Who/ --Helen Powers,...

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"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly... but rarely acknowledge the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty" ~

~ Maya Angelou ~ (born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is an American author and poet...

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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view" ~ Happy FRISKY Friday ~

~ Harper Lee, author (1926 - ) spoken by character Atticus Finch, "To Kill a Mockingbird ~...

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• "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather" ~

~ Phil Connors ~ an American essayist and author ~ Haven't seen any groundhogs in Florida, so...

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“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful” ~

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882) ~ I could just hear...

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“There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted” ~

~ Henri Matisse (Artist regarded as the most important French Painter and Artist of the 20th...

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"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true” ~

~ Buddha (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.) These tall...

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“If the beard were all... goats could preach” ~

~ Danish Proverb~ Meet "Butterscotch", a Pygmy Goat inside the Wallaroo Station at...

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"How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature" ~

~ Clyde William Tombaugh, (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer....

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“Everybody has a hot button. Who is pushing yours? While you probably cannot control that person, you CAN control the way you react to them” ~

“The Smurfs are little blue people who live in magic mushrooms..... think about it” ~

"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear... not a feather to tickle the intellect" ~

“He is a tall, grandly built man... she is tall and delicate. Both are narrow-faced with long, imperial noses; as they pose for pictures, it is a turkey buzzard sharing companionably with an egret” ~ Happy FRISKY Friday ~

"I will become a member of the Two-Headed Turtle Procrastinator Society Club.... if they ever get it organized...." ~ Happy FRISKY Friday ~

“I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, “I am in here when you're walking around like that?” ~

"Friendship is a teasured gift.... everytime I think of you I feel as thought I am getting richer and richer" ~

"Yesterday, at a restaurant, I asked the waiter how he prepared the chicken. He replied, "We don't...we just tell it straight that it's going into the frying pan" ~ Happy FRISKY Friday ~

"Why do Lorikeets do well in school? They are very bright" ~

"Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. She won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although she may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling" ~

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly... but rarely acknowledge the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty" ~

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view" ~ Happy FRISKY Friday ~

• "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather" ~

“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful” ~

“There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted” ~

"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true” ~

“If the beard were all... goats could preach” ~

"How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature" ~

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