“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.

 The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and 

let the beautiful stuff out.”

 Ray Bradbury

I learned yesterday that a favorite author

Ray Bradbury had died. Ray wrote beautifully

and for me often captured the wonder and terror

of everyday life. Last night I watched The Beast 

from 20,000 Fathoms a film loosely based on 

Bradbury's story the Foghorn with the monster

created by his friend Ray Harryhausen. Since

I am travelling I would like to offer some quotes

from the internet with photos from my earlier blogs.

All the quotes below come from Bradbury or

his works

"The sun burnt everyday. It burnt Time. 

The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis 

and time was busy burning the years and the 

people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt 

things with the firemen and the sun burnt time, 

that meant that everything burnt."   

Fahrenheit 451

Montag

"Yet this train's whistle! The wails of a 

lifetime were gathered in it from other 

nights in other slumbering years; 

the howl of moon-dreamed dogs, 

the seep of river-cold winds through 

January porch..."

Something Wicked This Way Comes

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if 

they don't they should, for their feet are 

dusted with spices from a million flowers.”

Dandelion Wine

“Way out in the country tonight he could smell 

the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the

 triangle eye and the singeing candle.” 

Dandelion Wine

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? 

Well, what tongue does the wind talk? 

What nationality is a storm? What country do rains 

come from? What color is lightning? Where does 

thunder go when it dies?” 

Something Wicked This Way Comes

"I have never listened to anyone who criticized 

my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. 

When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs 

and leave the room.” 

Ray Bradbury 

Thanks Ray