"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." ~Mignon McLaughlin

"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

"The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves." -W. C. Fields

"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty." -Imelda Marcos

Imelda Marcos is my hero [smile].

This is old, but a favorite.

*mrt*

ps: I might have already uploaded this image to this blog... sorry if it's a repeat :).

Bentley---ha ha.

So here is one, because it's just hilarious. For those of you that know my puppy, he hates hates HATES putting his sweater on... but additionally will start to shiver after being outside for 2 minutes.

Here is my vindication.

*mrt*

Winter Wonders

Slacking... clearly... so here's one. Another few to come soon :).

-mrt

"Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves." -Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

A self portrait.

I promise... this is like, the last proposal picture you will see.... but I love them all! So I will post this one. A self portrait on my proposal date.

love,
*maike rinaye*

“It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.” Sir Philip Sidney

Hawaii-on a hike down to this kick ass beach [called "hideaway beach"]. I love love LOVE this picture.

*maike rinaye*

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” -Albert Einstein

So today get's two [let's say we're making up for not posting an image on Sunday :].

They're not exquisite, but I love them.

The day after I told my work family that I got engaged, this is the desk I came to work at.

*maike rinaye*

“A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree..."

“A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air”
-Henry Ward Beecher (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)





*maike rinaye*

Canal Photo

So this is not MY photography [smile]. But it's to cool not to post on here.

ps: My fiance' is amazing at planning surprises.

photo from Perry Reichanadter, wayneimagesblog.blogspot.com [the great fake "student photographer" we met at the canal].

"Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light "– Grey Livingston

The boyfriend... oh wait... fiance' [smile]... doesn't think that I'll be able to keep this up, every day at least... so game on!

Additionally, he wants to know what's going to happen to this blog [smile]... So I think it's appropriate that I'm up going to try to post a new picture every day until the day we're married. It will be my last hurrah as an mtillen.

In any case, here is another image that Ashley assisted me in taking.

*maike rinaye*

He Put a Ring on It!

So, on Tuesday Whit said to me that one of her friends was posting a photograph-a-day for a year, and said I should do it as well. My response was: Sounds good and I've actually thought about it before, but it's already February. She said that I should start now anyway.

So, day three :).

Best Suprise EVER!

Check it:

A photograph

This is not my best work, but it turns out, that it is really freakin difficult to take photograph of your own left hand! Who knew?!

[helpful hint: click on the photograph to see a closer view]

*mrt*

ps: better image coming tomorrow :).

New Status....

Engaged [smile]... awesome [grin].

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*maike rinaye*