Carly Simon is in my head a lot these days singing, “You’re So Vain”. After decades of seeming perpetual youth in my career as a reporter, the portrait in my attic has become an illusion. It’s something with which most people… Read More ›
CFFC: Blue There’s an old folk song that many people sang back when we were all young. It was about a dog named “Blue.” I never had a dog named blue, but every time I heard the song, I remembered… Read More ›
A Photo a Week Challenge: Horizontal Lines I remember way back when I still had to get dressed to go to work trying to find a flattering skirt. I finally found a nice one with thin vertical lines running downward on… Read More ›
SHARE YOUR WORLD 8-2-2021 It’s August, but I don’t know how this happened. It was barely July just yesterday — or was that last Saturday? What day is this anyway? My entire life seems to be falling between the chairs and… Read More ›
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Just now, the huge Dixie Fire is burning through the up-and-down country south and west of Lassen Volcanic National Park. The Bootleg Fire is creating its own weather in Southern Oregon. Lightening has…
Touring My Backyard: THE CHANGING SEASONS After a decade of drought, July set new records — at least in Worcester County — for rainfall. Depending on where you lived, we had anywhere from 12 to 14 inches of rain —… Read More ›
Blogging Insights — New Format # 3 I have been writing a lot less than I was, but maybe more than I need to write. But to be fair, I am writing a lot less. The photographs take up most… Read More ›
Marilyn and Garry wrote a blog a while back about watching one of their favorite movies, “Rustler’s Rhapsody.” It’s also one of my favorite movies. They introduced it to me. I’ve seen it dozens of times and I love introducing… Read More ›
Last on the Card – July 2021 I thought I’d taken pictures yesterday, but apparently not. I had just left the cards in the camera assuming I’d take some more, later. So, all of these, on two different cameras, are from… Read More ›
FOTD – August 1 – Window Box Flowers it was a nice day. Comfortable temperatures, light breeze. Sunny and partly cloudy also made it good flower shooting conditions, and so I went outside and took flowerbox pictures.
There’s a very good chance that the Chinook salmon is going to die for good this year. From the L.A. Times — Paul Thornton, <paul.thornton@email.latimes.com> –comes this heartbreaking bit of news: “A case in point is what The Times Editorial… Read More ›
Seven years ago I ran across this story. Angel had posted it 3 years earlier to YouTube. I thought it should be told here, so I wrote it down and tried to track down Angel. It was by far the… Read More ›
Since we started letting the Duke out on the deck occasionally — and the Duke has discovered if he charges the back screen door door he can pop it open — the chipmunks have been a little tentative. They aren’t… Read More ›
Worcester county, where we live, is thinly populated and rather rural. Small town, not much in the way of big public gatherings now or ever. Yet our COVID population shot up from almost zero to 258% of the previous number… Read More ›
Threads of a Tree – Tree Leapers We have an old tree in the back just behind the deck. It has been slowly fading over the past few years. Last year, it must have picked up some kind of boring insect…. Read More ›
Garry complains a lot, but really, he isn’t complaining about one thing. Mostly, he’s complaining about getting old. He doesn’t like it. It wasn’t on his schedule. He was planning to be young. How did this happen? Like everyone else,… Read More ›
Most baby animals are cute. Well, at least the furry one are. Birds, on the other hand, have some of the most hilariously ugly babies I’ve ever seen. This is a very young Rose-Breasted Grosbeak. In one of these pictures,… Read More ›
Almost the end of Treesquares Since this month is just about over, I thought I’d just find the best remaining square trees. I really have many more, but it’s hard for me to find them. I keep trying to organize… Read More ›
Fandango’s Provocative Question #128 Not even the birds agree on this. Some birds come in flocks. Blue Jays and Goldfinches. Sometimes Tufted Titmouses. Starlings. Doves may come as a flock, but also show up individual or as couples. Some birds, like… Read More ›
WELCOME TO THE HOMINID OVERVIEW OF LOST ARTS MUSEUM AND GALLERY The horrors of the late 21st century were — as we all know — at the root of the collapse of hominids as Earth’s dominant species. It is a… Read More ›
FOTD – July 28 – MACROS IN THE WINDOW My window-box flowers deserved better pictures, so I took some. If we get a cloudy day, the pictures will be even better.
CFFC: Goldfinch in full feather The Goldfinch are mating, so the boys are in their finest, brightest feathers. Birds are very visual, so the brightest, prettiest boys get their chosen ladies. I’m not sure they really choose ladies. I think… Read More ›
BY OTSEGO LAKE All of these were taken near Cooperstown in upstate New York. Otsego Lake is a big lake carved out of these mountains by the final glacier during the Wisconsin Glaciation period, probably about 20,000 to 22,000 years… Read More ›
Share Your World 7-27-2021 Ever since you mentioned it on a previous post, I’ve been trying to figure out if I get aggravated when challenges show up late. The answer is yes, but that’s because I’m sure it’s either my crappy… Read More ›
BALING THE HAY IN UPSTATE NEW YORK All of these were taken near Cooperstown in upstate New York. We had gone to the Baseball Hall of Fame as part of what used to be our annual anniversary vacation. It was… Read More ›
A Photo a Week Challenge: Reflection Sometimes, the reflections in the water is so sharp, it looks more “real” than the non-reflection above it. But always, because we live by rivers and ponds that are not fast flowing, reflections double the… Read More ›
I am named after an aunt I never met. In my style of Jewish family, you don’t name babies after living people. Only after those who have passed. This is not true in all Jewish families. It depends on where… Read More ›
FOTD – July 25 – FLOWER BOXES AND A BUMBLE BEE Owen decided we needed flower boxes. The bird feeders are living where the flowers used to live. I used to grow fuchsia, but after we cut down one of the… Read More ›
SUM-SUM-SUMMERTIME Dark green boughs heavy with leaves means deep summer in the valley. We are a wonderland of trees. We had two sunny days, but today, it rained. Tomorrow they are promising more sun. Here’s hoping they got it right…. Read More ›
How many friends does a grown up actually need? It’s interesting that this subject has come up now since Garry and I had a long talk about this just the other day. We had turned down an invitation to a… Read More ›
Advice To And From A Tree “Stand strong,” said the tree. “Come what may. In all the seasons, through storm and wind, rain and blizzard, stand strong. Be there for the creatures that live in your branches, that nest in your… Read More ›
No silencing Linda Ronstadt, Rich Paschall All through the 1970s, you could not leave your transistor radio on for long without hearing the distinctive voice of Linda Ronstadt. She emerged from her early time with The Stone Poneys from the… Read More ›
We’ve been seeing a lot of woodpeckers. Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Flickers, Hairy and Downy woodpeckers. You’d think there would be plenty of bugs for them in the trees, but they want seeds too. I don’t know if the seeds are dessert… Read More ›
Dateline: Uxbridge, Massachusetts It was an ordinary day in southern New England. Late summer and at least it wasn’t raining as it had for most of the summer. The leaves were pondering the possibility of changing color with hints of yellow… Read More ›
Autumn Foliage – Coming up next! Most of these were taken by Garry last October. Or maybe he took the pictures that made it to “square.” Lockdown notwithstanding, it was an amazing fall with some of the best color I’ve… Read More ›
FOTD – July 24 – HEDGE ROSES The roses bloomed bigtime this year despite the rain. But if we’d had just a little bit of sunshine in June or July, it would have been much better. These are the roses from… Read More ›
It’s a good day for looking back. When I wrote this in 2015, it was five years since Tinker and Griffin, our two PBGV (French rabbit hounds) had died. Since then, Bonnie who was a young dog then is gone,… Read More ›
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