johannal's photostream

Lionfish

Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies Gatlinburg, TN

Uploaded on Jan 3, 2011

Fall is a flurry of yellow, ochre, and brown

All was silent. All was empty. Dead autumn leaves blew across the sidewalk, a flurry of yellow and ochre...

Uploaded on Nov 13, 2010

fiat voluntas tua

Uploaded on Nov 7, 2010 | Map

10-year anniversary party

Uploaded on Nov 6, 2010 | Map

Yu-Murdell Wedding

Uploaded on Jun 7, 2010 | Map

Agent

Uploaded on Apr 25, 2010

Vintage Red Volkswagen

I'm starting to take photos again. When I first joined flickr, I constantly craved comments and page...

Uploaded on Mar 22, 2010

Heaven.Hell.Limbo.

I believe in heaven. I also believe in hell. I’ve never seen either, but I believe they exist, though...

Uploaded on Oct 5, 2009

卍 Sanskrit svastika, "All is well"

Karma, in the original Buddhist scriptures, is a blind machine; in fact, it is functionally identical...

Uploaded on Sep 1, 2009

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Beautiful ugly, virtuous vice

If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It is no more than a fact...

Uploaded on Aug 25, 2009

Survival

We always turn up on top in a few years. This is the reason - we bow to the inevitable. We're not wheat,...

Uploaded on Aug 19, 2009

On the scale of one to ecstatic? Ecstatic.

Remember when you were a kid, and your biggest worry was, like, if you'd get a bike for your birthday,...

Uploaded on Aug 12, 2009 | Map

It's a hat, or, What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves

Can't you see it? I watched the Little Prince last night. As with most great authors, the beauty of...

Uploaded on Jul 26, 2009

H&M, S&M

I need a muse, or thought I needed one. To amuse, to inspire. After a futile search, I have fallen off...

Uploaded on Nov 14, 2007 | Map

Sloquet

Uploaded on Nov 13, 2007

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Manukan Island, Kota Kinabalu

J. K. Morley was being both serious and facetious when he claimed that "the world's greatest water power is woman's tears."

Uploaded on Nov 13, 2007