Barn Cat – Wharf Cat – City Cat
City Cat © Bob Orsillo From barn cat, to wharf cat, to city cat to old cat, what a long strange life it has been.
Eastland Building Portland Maine
Eastland Building photographed from Old Port © Bob Orsillo And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop’t we live and die, Lift not thy hands to It for help—for It Rolls impotently on as Thou or I. Omar Khayyám (11–12th century), Persian astronomer, poet. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, st. 52 (tr. by Edward Fitzgerald, 1859).
Swiss Time
Swiss Time Portland Maine © Bob Orsillo Will Rogers: Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Time and Temperature Building Portland Maine
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived. played by Patrick Stewart, from the film "Star Trek: Generations"
Nautical Memories
Old Sailors Cap - Portland Maine © Bob Orsillo "Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cape Porpoise Peir, Maine
Late afternoon Cape Porpoise Maine © Bob Orsillo And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop’t we live and die, Lift not thy hands to It for help—for It Rolls impotently on as Thou or I. Omar Khayyám (11–12th century), Persian astronomer, poet. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, st. 52 (tr. by Edward Fitzgerald, 1859).
One last goodbye Portland Maine
Portland Maine Partir, c’est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.) French Proverb. Also incorporated into Edmond Haraucourt, Rondel de l’Adieu.
