Last night, we watched "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", a movie made in the 1960s. Linus insists that the Great Pumpkin will arise out of the pumpkin patch and bring toys to all good kids. While he and Sally are waiting around in the pumpkin patch, the other kids are having a fun Halloween …
Continue reading How things have changed: Pumpkin carving then, and now.
It turns out that one of my favorite Subjects for picture-taking is my black cat, Kikyo. She follows me everywhere around the house, so I can take her picture in all sorts of situations. However, isn't it true that it is very tricky to photograph a black cat (see what I did there? Happy Halloween!)? …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #121-Focus on the Subject
I think the new theme makes my blog easier on the eyes, and allows more post excerpts in the same space. My old theme color scheme really didn't allow for BOLD text to be easily distinguished from normal-this one is way better! Read on, and let me know what you think in the comments. Thanks!
This afternoon, in Washington DC, Judge Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the newest Justice on the Supreme Court. In the vote in the Senate, all of the DemocRat members acted like little babies, throwing a temper tantrum. The majority of them refused to be in the room for the vote, and the ones who …
I'm not a professional photographer, and I've never been to exotic foreign lands. But I am an amateur bird-watcher, starting in my own backyard. I am often to be found in our kitchen, peering out the sliding glass door, watching to see who shows up at our two bird-feeders (one seed feeder and a suet-feeder). …
I just took these two photos in my back yard. Both cedar trees are in the next yard over. I was fascinated by the sunlight inside the trees. Some of the inner branches are illuminated, when the outer branches are not.
He needs them right now. The story over at Fox News is pretty comprehensive. I have been a Rush listener only since 2001, but I can't imagine life without him on the radio. I have been a RushBabe since they were invented. I felt like I had been sucker-punched when I found out that he …
Continue reading Please keep my Hero, Rush Limbaugh, in your prayers.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/10/02/support-our-american-heroes-by-rush-limbaugh/ This Video by my Hero, Rush Limbaugh, celebrates our First Responders, Police and Firefighters, who have been denigrated, shot at, murdered in cold blood, by the New Thugs of American Society. This has to stop. Please share this video with all your friends and neighbors, on all your Social Media, today. Do it Now. …
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First of all, a favorite scene from the animated movie The Secret of Kells. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32DM5tNeHBA Next, an interesting explanation, and translation of an Old Irish Poem, about a boy and his cat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9YijEdOIsM Enjoy! The animated movie is captivating, and should be in everyone's home library. Loved by adults and children alike.
This past week, I was invited by the Curtis Institute of Music, one of the world's premier music conservatories, to watch a movie about the people who make bows used by string-instrument players. Specifically, the movie profiled bow makers who live right in my neck of the woods (the Pacific Northwest), in and around Port …
Continue reading What I learned from watching the movie The Bowmakers, by Ward Serrill
