Photo of the Day: On the Beach, Hilton Head, SC

I took this photograph a month and a half ago, while on vacation in Hilton Head, S.C.

Quote of the Day (Comic Demetri Martin, on Judging Others)

“Don't be so quick to judge others. Take your time and really get into it.” —Stand-up comic Demetri Martin, Oct. 28, 2014 tweet

Photo of the Day: Where Creek and River Meet, Nyack NY

I took this picture one afternoon late last week while I was in the village of Nyack, in Rockland County, N.Y. It shows the Nyack Creek emptying into the mighty Hudson River.

Quote of the Day (Psalm 98, on ‘Joy to the Lord’)

“Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth,

   burst into jubilant song with music.”—Psalm 98:4 (New International Version)

(The image accompanying this post is Adoration of the Magi, one of at least seven renderings of this scene by Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli. The original, dating from 1475 or 1476, is in Florence, Italy.)

Photo of the Day: Nativity Scene, First Reformed Church of Nyack, NY

I came across this nativity scene on the front lawn of the First Reformed Church of Nyack, in Rockland County, N.Y. Originally built in 1836 and formally received into the denomination in 1838, the church is the oldest congregation in this picturesque village along the Hudson River.

Quote of the Day (Miguel de Cervantes, Comparing Discretion and Folly)

"Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion." —Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605)