The Changing Seasons, March 2022 Well, this has certainly been another highly changeable weather month for New England. Warm, cold, even colder, summertime, hail, rain, and finally, flowers budding and waiting for just a few days of warm, sunny weather… Read More ›
FOWC with Fandango — Drawn Normally, I do a lot of drawing, but right now, my right wrist and I have a deal whereby I leave it to rest and it doesn’t try to fall off my arm. Painful body parts… Read More ›
I didn’t want to do it. I don’t like setting up new computers because not only is it a lot of work, but it takes weeks before it feels like “home.” My preference is that everything I buy should last… Read More ›
Yesterday, the bluebirds showed up. Not one or two of them, but at least half a dozen of them including some of the girls. They are a few shades lighter than the boys — more like a slate blue with… Read More ›
SHARE YOUR WORLD 3-29-2022 It’s the end of March and in theory, it’s spring. Pity no one mentioned it to our weather. We’re having another below freezing night, so everyone’s flowering trees will be dying before morning. That’s the way it… Read More ›
NO! That never happens. The two birds hate each other. And yet today, it happened. I did the best photography I could given that the lens was very long and it was hard to get the entire picture of both… Read More ›
FOTD – March 29 – Sweet Violet My mother loved the smell of violets, but I never saw a violet until we moved here. They grow wild here and most people consider them weeds. I love them. In May the entire… Read More ›
I was Jewish when I married Garry in a Lutheran Church. I was fine with that. Garry was fine and both ministers — we had two — were also fine with it. Oddly enough, my entire family was happy that… Read More ›
They are babies. You can tell because when you look at the photographs closely, you can actually see the baby feathers poking up on their heads and usually on their breasts, too. They grow from babyhood to adult in just… Read More ›
CMMC – March Alphabet Letter D at the beginning or end of a word My right hand and I have an agreement. I won’t do anything to strain it and it won’t keep going numb or, alternatively, throbbing. I can’t draw…. Read More ›
FOTD – March 27 – Orchid Buds Two out of my three orchids are full of buds. One is about a month ahead of the other, but with a little bit of luck, it will mean the flowering will seem… Read More ›
Last night, I went to get a couple of rolls of toilet paper for my bathroom. It was all chewed up. There were pieces of it all over the closet. Which meant… Mice. We’ve been pretty much mouse-free for the… Read More ›
Regrets, part 1, by Rich Paschall “Youth is the most beautiful thing in this world—and what a pity that it has to be wasted on children!” You are likely familiar with the above saying or some variation thereof, often attributed… Read More ›
Really, this whole graveyard sequence started with that little Scottish poem: From ghoulies and ghosties. And long-leggedy beasties. And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! I don’t know about any of you, but I have always… Read More ›
FLASHBACK FRIDAY ON A SATURDAY So the bartender says “What is this? Some kind of joke?” The answer is, yes and no. It’s not a joke. It’s reality. In so far as reality has become a bigger and bigger joke… Read More ›
Garry feels I’m getting very thematic and he’s right. It isn’t accidental. I’ve been conjuring images from our cemetery. Not every drawing is brilliant, but they are definitely a series. My favorite character is Death in Terry Pratchett’s wonderful, brilliant,… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 