Of course, whether you want to snack with the Downy Woodpecker might depend on how much you like meal worms mixed with beef suit and sunflower seeds for dinner. If that’s not your idea of a tasty treat, maybe you… Read More ›
Marilyn Armstrong
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
CMMC – March Close Up or Macro Cee’s Midweek Madness is seeking closeups or macros. I’m not sure which these are, but they are about as tight as I can go and still see what we are looking at. So there’s… Read More ›
BRIGHT RED FINCHES BUT ARE THEY PURPLE?
I think they are purple, but if they are house finches, they are the most awesomely scarlet House Finch I’ve ever seen. They are brilliantly red. I think that means they are purple. Meanwhile, here are a few pictures. The… Read More ›
CAN IT BE A FADED ROSE FROM DAYS GONE BY?
A Photo a Week Challenge: Faded Can it be a faded rose from days gone by? No, but faded fuchsia and orchids. Sorry about the absence of roses.
SHARING MY WORLD: OUCH!
Is every piece of truth worth telling? (Credit to the magnificent Cyranny for this one) This is one of those things that annoys me when I see it as part of a story plot. Goofus (male/female) has an affair. It is brief… Read More ›
ANTI-VAXXERS KEEP YOUR DISTANCE
I wanted to publish this exchange because it’s a good example of why I dislike anti-vaxxers. They have beliefs based on out-of-context data and a lack of scientific and factual testing. Their “opinions” don’t merely endanger them, their family and… Read More ›
IT’S SPRING TOMORROW: THE CHANGING SEASONS, FEBRUARY 2021
The Changing Seasons, February 2021 Astronomical spring begins (here) March 20th but meteorological spring starts tomorrow. I’m not sure what the difference is, but I will take spring any way I can get it. I will also get my first vaccination… Read More ›
THE LAST PICTURE ON THE LAST CARD IN FEBRUARY 2021
Last on the Card February 2021 It turned out that this final card had not only the pictures I took yesterday, but stragglers from pictures I took in Providence in January. So, the last picture on this card dates from the… Read More ›
FOTD – WILDFLOWERS
FOTD – March 1 – Wildflowers One of the really nice parts of living rurally are the wildflowers. As long as you don’t need nice neat rows, wildflowers are as decorative as any cultivar. And many of them are a… Read More ›
GARRY IS VACCINATED AND I’M NEXT!
Today we drove 54 miles each way to Dartmouth High School. It was raining hard for most of the trip. As we approached Providence (Rhode Island)(before re-entering Massachusetts), traffic got very heavy which made no sense at all. I mean… Read More ›
FROM PRIMROSE TO LITTLE BLUE FLOWERS
FOTD – Feb 28 – Those Little Blue Flowers I’ve had these flowers growing in my garden since we moved here and I never knew what they were. A few years ago, someone said “Oh, those are primroses!” Well, a… Read More ›
ALMOST EVERYTHING IS BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX
CBWC: Bigger than a Bread Box Almost everything I can think of is bigger than a breadbox except for some of my birds. I have a breadbox. It’s one of the smaller items in my kitchen.
