When I first got back from Israel, I was depressed. I had lost my world. I hadn’t realized good things were happening. I just needed to shake off the blues and look around. It turns out that misery can be… Read More ›
Blackstone Valley
REGRETS & HOPES – 2022 & BEYOND
Blogging Insights — New Format # 26 These last few years have been unusually regretful. I’m not big on looking back, holding grudges, or storing anger, but in one way or the other, between the crazies and their aluminum foil… Read More ›
PRETTY RED BIRD
Cardinals are always very pretty birds, both the girls and the boys, but of course the boys usually get all the attention. Male cardinals are really RED. Even their feet and beak are red — with just a black eye… Read More ›
ANOTHER RETURN OF THE GRACKLES
Captions: Garry Armstrong They never entirely left. For a while, there were only a couple of them hanging around. Sometimes, a mob of them would show up and I could see and hear them from anywhere in the house. Once,… Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASONS – DECEMBER 2021
The Changing Seasons, December 2021 Garry said it well: “As this miserable excuse for a year slinks away…” In any of the galleries, you can click on an image to enlarge it. I recognize that not everyone had the same year… Read More ›
QUIETLY CHRISTMAS
Christmas Eve was a lot of bustling and family and food and all that kind of stuff. Today, though, it’s quiet. Kaity and friend are off to his family and it’s just we four, including Owen’s friend Arthur. It seems… Read More ›
THE BEST SIDE
Garry says that everyone has a good (for photography) side and a not-so-good side. I think I got the good side of these insane grackles. These birds really are cuckoo wackadoodle. And, with those malevolent yellow eyes which, in some… Read More ›
OUR FIRST AMONG MANY CANNABIS SHOPS – APRIL 2019
A Flashback Friday on Saturday Caroline’s Cannabis Uxbridge Dispensary is a winner. We thought we were lucky when we got this single shop. Two years later, I can’t even count how many shops we have. All of them are located… Read More ›
WORLD SHARING AS YEAR’S END NEARS
SHARE YOUR WORLD 12-14-2021 Another year has passed. Years used to be a “time” with memorable events. It was enough time for work, family, vacations, weekend, holidays. We could fit life into a year and nobody thought anything of it. It… Read More ›
THE DAY SQUIRREL MET MR. TOAD
Some of you may remember that we have always kept a stone toad — like the toad in “Wind in the Willows” on the deck. He sat peaceably on the railing. He sat on that rail for almost 20 years…. Read More ›
THE WELL-MANNERED GRACKLE
When came home yesterday and there were no Grackles, I wondered if they had moved on or would be back. All day I watched. Sometimes in early afternoon I spotted a couple up in the oaks. Eventually, around 3 pm,… Read More ›
CASABLANCA IN MASSACHUSETTS
Remember how, in the movie (1942) “Casablanca,” to get to America you went to Casablanca in Morocco — and then you waited, and waited, and waited? I ordered a sweater. It was on sale. I bought it at the end… Read More ›
Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth 