A Day In The Life

People, Places, Nature, LIFE!

12/15/2020
DailyMusings

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RDP Tuesday: Mask

My friend makes masks for her family and me, so I will send her a pic when I am wearing one of the ones she has made for me. Here are some of them. And this is life as we know it now… in school, out of school…. Mask

12/09/2020
DailyMusings

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Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Bus Riding

I commuted to my job in New York City for close to 30 years. When I began working there I walked to the bus stop a block away, boarding the bus around 7:30am with the hopes of arriving by 8:30 or 8:45 and then walking from the bus station to my office which took 15 […]

11/26/2020
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Gratitude in Six Words from Readers of the N Y Times

The NY Times invited readers to send in six words describing what made them thankful in 2020. It’s a form of writing — the six-word memoir — popularized by the author Larry Smith. Some of the responses were published in the Thanksgiving edition of the Times today, and I wanted to share some of the […]

11/09/2020
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Bird Weekly: Shorebirds

As most of you know my favorite place is the beach, and with that comes watching the gulls and other shore birds. Here are some of them. Laughing Gull Sanderlings running at warp speed! They keep pace with the ebb and flow of each wave. Oyster Catcher Herring Gull Shore Birds

11/02/2020
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Last Photo for October 2020

Here we are again getting set for seeing the last photo from your cameras SD card or the last photo from your phone on the 31st October. The rules are simple: 1. Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on your phone for the 30th October. 2. No editing – who […]

10/25/2020
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Bird Weekly: In Your Garden or Yard

We are invited this week to share the birds that visit our backyards and gardens. Here are some of my visitors throughout the year. These photos were all taken in the trees in my yard. Carolina Wren Catbird Grackle above a Blue Jay Starling with Juvenile Starling Male Cardinal in the snow White Throated Sparrow […]

10/19/2020
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Bird Weekly: Owls

Walking with a friend along a local trail, she told me to look up in a tree, she thought there was a hawk. I zoomed in with my camera, and lo and behold, that was no hawk, but an owl. An exciting moment for us both! Owl

10/09/2020
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A Photo a Week Challenge: The Road Not Taken

This week we are invited to share a forgotten road or path. Nancy included the poem by Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, which always reminds me of my father. I can picture sitting next to him as an early teen, him reading the poem to me. When he came to the last lines, Two […]

10/08/2020
DailyMusings

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Weekly Smile Part 2 Thank You

I just want to thank all those who commented on my post offering help with the WordPress Editor. I received so many suggestions of what to do and how to do things, it really made me smile. Many offered their own frustrations validating my own feelings and making me feel less crazy. Most of us […]

10/07/2020
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Life’s A Beach-Weekly Smile

Finally…. went to the beach. Spent a beautiful day taking in the sights in a new town we had never visited before. Seabright, New Jersey. A little strip of land along the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by water on both sides. It  is located on the barrier peninsula that separates the Atlantic Ocean from the Navesink […]

10/06/2020
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An Exercise in Frustration

UPDATE: I FOUND IT!!! I am on my last nerve as it is, and now WordPress has sent me over the edge. It just took me literally double the time to write a post- inserting photos. I didn’t even write because by the time I got all my photos in, everything disappeared and I couldn’t […]