A Yankee Doodle Dandy! by Rich Paschall One of my favorite films is Yankee Doodle Dandy starring James Cagney. In the movies, Cagney was known as a tough guy having played a variety of gangster roles since his movie debut… Read More ›
FOTD – July 5 – Daylily It’s that time of year again. The Daylilies are everywhere. A bit late. Usually they show up in the middle of June and are winding down by now, but this year, they are blooming like… Read More ›
The time has come round again. Our local corn is ripe. You can tell because the price of corn drops abruptly. We used to get ten ears for a dollar, but inflation has arrived, so now they are selling it… Read More ›
Like most wars, our Revolutionary War was about money and land — pretty much like every war. The money part was about taxes — especially on tea, which was very big until America discovered coffee — and who should pay… Read More ›
Civics 101 by Rich Paschall Most of us are Americans because we were born here. We did not have to meet any special requirements. We did have to learn about our history and our government, however. When I was in… Read More ›
Flying squirrels in the woods I wish I had clearer pictures of the flying squirrels. Unfortunately, the night camera only took black and white pictures which are very grainy and sometimes so blurry as to be impossible to see anything…. Read More ›
I spent a very large part of yesterday trying to get the mailing address for my mortgage company. Not the address for paying the bill, but where to send the tax paperwork so they could pay it out of my… Read More ›
Tree Art The rain is falling all aroundIt falls on me and on the ground.But, in this raincoat that I wearI know I can go anywhere.
FOTD – July 3 – Wet Leaves Yesterday it was 100 degrees. Today it’s 60 degrees and it has been raining for almost 24 hours. We need the rain and I’m grateful for the cold. I think despite the pain in… Read More ›
In the shadow of a tree The heat broke today. Yesterday it was 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Centigrade) and today, it has dropped down into the 60s and will be almost winter by the middle of the night. It also appears… Read More ›
The Changing Seasons: June 2021 It was time for a new host for The Changing Seasons, especially now with North America sizzling under two heat domes, one in the west and another in the east. I just backed up June’s photographs… Read More ›
Last Two On the Cards – June 2021 I get mixed up between what pictures I took last versus which cards I downloaded last. I finally went with the final pictures I downloaded from the final two cards I extracted from… Read More ›
Fandango’s Provocative Question #124 There was a movie by this name and I think it’s also a famous quote, but don’t quote me on that. The last time someone asked me this question, she was a so-called psychic and I think… Read More ›
FOTD – July 1 – Daylilies and Roses As Our World Sizzles I have some flowers for you that I shot early this morning before the night’s rain had dried and the full heat came on. We’re having serious wi-fi issues… Read More ›
It’s heading toward the middle of June, the heart of baseball’s season. The Red Sox are in first place. We were sure this was going to be a terrible season, but they’ve been either leading the pack or almost leading it since the beginning… Read More ›
FOTD – June 30 – DAY LILIES & ROSES The garden grows. It has been so hot it’s hard to believe the flowers aren’t fried, but we’ve been getting a little bit of rain. I guess that keeps things growing. It’s… Read More ›
Last night, I spent close to an hour looking for something that was exactly where it was supposed to be. It was on the correct shelf, right in front. Nothing was hiding it. It wasn’t behind something or turned the… Read More ›
I enjoy being able to reblog posts I find well-written, particularly relevant, or amusing. The problem is I seem to have a bunch of “rebloggers” who use my posts every day instead of writing anything of their own. They come… Read More ›
SHARE YOUR WORLD 6-29-2021 Hard to believe half this year is already gone. I’m sure there were other months, but do I remember them? Nope. The months have scooted by and not even marked their passage. Maybe this is just the… Read More ›
A Photo a Week Challenge: Unedited As it happens, I have so more unedited than edited pictures. Recently I’ve been doing less editing. If the pictures is reasonably sharp, I crop and sign it, but that’s pretty much the extent of… Read More ›
About 10 years ago, maybe a little longer — possibly 12 years? — Garry had Tommy John surgery on his right shoulder. It’s a hell of a surgery and it was like five months in a sling followed by months… Read More ›
For a long time, I’ve had just one chipmunk on the deck, but recently, there have been two. My guess is that if there are two, there are probably a lot more. I just would appreciate that they not all… Read More ›
My mother was not a regular kind of mom. This confused me a lot while I was growing up. Other mothers made cookies, kissed boo-boos. Hung out with the other mothers in summertime. Swapped recipes. Watched soap operas. My mother didn’t bake… Read More ›
If I ever have to answer the question again about which person I’d like to have come visit us that answer would absolutely be Doris Kearns Goodwin. It wouldn’t even be inconvenient since she lives in or around Boston and… Read More ›
FOTD – June 26 – DAYLILIES AND ROSES I know this sounds weird, but I think I managed to pull up the last of the bittersweet in the garden. Owen and I have been uprooting it. Every time we pass the… Read More ›
Squirrels are so cute. What could they possibly have to do with nuclear meltdowns? I’m not sure exactly why the big gray squirrels have been mostly replaced in our woods by smaller red squirrels. Both normally live in this area,… Read More ›
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A conservative Nevada group called the Nevada Family Alliance has proposed putting body cameras on teachers to stop them from teaching Critical Race Theory. Critical Race Theory is a way of understanding…
CBWC: Flowers I have to admit having a personal preference for flowers in color rather than black and white. To me, the essence of flowers is color, but I’ll give it a try. Maybe orchids since they are more “form”… Read More ›
We didn’t change foods with any idea of attracting different birds, but we seem to gotten new birds anyway. Which isn’t a bad thing, but is a bit of a surprise. We are see far fewer finches — which were… Read More ›
Fandango’s Provocative Question #123 This is one of those times when I really don’t understand the question because I don’t understand the platitudes underlying the question. I never believed that absence makes the heart grow fonder. If you like someone, it… Read More ›
THE FLICKER WHO ISN’T IN THE BOOK So there was a Red-shafted Flicker and then another Flicker showed up except there was one minor problem. He wasn’t green. He wasn’t red. He was gray-blue and there is no such thing… Read More ›
When ATMs first started showing up, I lived in Israel and had two young step-children. They saw the machine and were thrilled. “It gives you money!” they said. It was simple. Go to the special place and a hole in the… Read More ›
SHARE YOUR WORLD 6-22-2021 It has been a hot summer and it only just began. With the way things are shaping up, I think we can safely say it will be hot, possibly the hottest summer ever that we know about…. Read More ›
Pictures from our friend Ben who lives in Phoenix where it is 115 degrees. This was his view of the sun the other day. He was able to point his camera right at the sun to get this shot. It… Read More ›
Among the many pictures I downloaded today were almost 300 pictures of a Red-bellied Woodpecker. They were clearly taken on different days. The light was entirely different and the woodpecker was in different places — at least three different locations.
A family of strangers story by Rich Paschall Russell was home from the university, perhaps for the last time. He finally graduated after four and a half years and a double major from the School of Business. He lived at… Read More ›
FOTD – June 12 – Orchids My red orchids are beginning to die off, one by one, but the yellow ones are still perfect. I took some pictures. I can’t imagine a more lovely set of orchids.
CBWC: Faces In Things In this case, the faces were in our television. My husband is not merely a movie maven. He is also seriously hooked on old western movies and television shows. This was an old episode of Cheyenne. Made… Read More ›
There have been a lot of big hacks lately. Mostly these have been called ransomware attacks. They’ve hit an oil company, hospitals, electric companies. They also, rather casually, will attack anyone else they can, even if it’s for just a… Read More ›
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