Just because it made me laugh … Get Smart (TV Series 1965–1970) – IMDb Bumbling Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 for CONTROL, with a great deal of help from his competent partner Agent 99, battles the forces of KAOS – Starring Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Edward Platt. Related… Read More ›
Month: October 2012
Dark sky in the morning
– It’s windy. The oak trees are bending like saplings. The wind must be strong higher up. It doesn’t seem like much on the ground, but a hundred or so feet upward, the oak trees are dancing to Mother Nature‘s… Read More ›
WHERE DO THE SWANS GO?
When the wind blows, when the rain falls, when the snow piles up, where do the swans go? Do they shiver in nests beneath tall trees? Do they hide under one another’s’ broad white wings? When the lake freezes over, how do… Read More ›
Ten useful things I’ve learned about blogging
I started this blog in February 2012, but it wasn’t until the end of May that I started to write regularly. Before that, I posted erratically and rarely. In September, I tossed off a very short post about Criminal Minds… Read More ›
She’s On Her Way
By the time we got to Walmart, there wasn’t any bottled drinking water left except for the expensive stuff that always tastes to me like polluted water. Yuk. So we bought one large trash can (plastic, with wheels, Rubber Maid),… Read More ›
Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign – Encounter From Hell
– “The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps” – Martin Luther –
Serendipity – The Swans Are Back
So today, I took serendipitous photographs of swans on an unnamed pond on the road whose name I don’t know. The road runs between Uxbridge, through Northbridge and Whitinsville, past the old mill and the High School through Webster. I’ve never… Read More ›
How Come They Don’t Simply Open the Windows? A Film Maven’s Dialogue
Earlier today, my husband the movie maven wrote me and a few of his old TV pals. He had a question, perhaps one that has long needed answering. Given the cost and scarcity of panes of glass in Ye Olde… Read More ›
Young Swans
These are from last year. I don’t know which of them I’ve published, but I think just one or two maybe and a while ago at that. These are immature mute swans. They will be white at maturity. These are… Read More ›
Abstractions and Imagery
Many of these are on water, some not, but all are natural pictures and not doctored. These are images taken along the river, by quiet pools, waterfalls, and marshland. Some are almost abstract, others remind me of Japanese block prints… Read More ›