A Day In The Life

People, Places, Nature, LIFE!

07/28/2019
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Bird of the Day (BOTD)

I’m joining in on Granny Shot It’s  Bird of the Day (BOTD) challenge. How could I not?

I would like to introduce you to a very special Cardinal. He appeared in my yard at the beginning of July with his lady friend. Something looked odd about him, and when I looked at the photos I took I saw he had no feathers on his head. Bald. I immediately emailed my friend Don Torino, who is the President of our local Audubon Society, sending him a photo and asking why this male Cardinal looked like this. He told me he fell victim to feather mites, which ate all the feathers from his head. He said they will eventually grow back. I nearly fainted hearing this. Apparently it did not seem to bother his lady friend at all. I could hear his call near my yard and would respond back with a whistle and throw some food from my kitchen window. Well, he now appears everyday, a few times sometimes, calling out from a low branch in a tree outside my window, and then flying down to the patio outside my window for a morsel. He is not afraid at all. He brings his lady friend sometimes and feeds her first, then comes back for more for himself. This week I heard his call while I was upstairs in the bedroom, and returned his whistle. I looked out the bedroom window to see him fly to the roof and then hop over to my window. I was astonished. I will admit I am getting a bit attached to him. I have not gone so far as to name him…yet. Suggestions?

I see you looking at me…

 

07/28/2019
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Song Lyric Sunday: Movie Time

Let the River Run from way back in 1989 came to mind when I saw the prompt. It is  Carly Simon`s stirring theme song for the movie ”Working Girl,” It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1989. The movie starred Melanie Griffith,  (review courtesy of IMDB) who unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her boss is Sigourney Weaver, a yuppie type whose outward appearance to the world hides a wicked and larcenous propensity for exploiting the ideas of her employees. While Weaver is incapacitated, Griffith is compelled by circumstances to pose as her boss. Her inborn business acumen and common sense enable Griffith to rise to the top of New York’s financial circles, and along the way she wins the love of executive (Harrison Ford). Things threaten to take a sorry turn when Weaver returns, but it is she who suffers from the consequences of her own past duplicity. Working Girl was Melanie Griffith’s breakthrough film.

Although the hymn like ”Let the River Run,” is not the kind of song one would associate with the movie`s upwardly mobile Wall Street types, Simon said it was inspired by the movie’s shooting script. ”The opening sequence was so grand with its images of the Hudson River, the Statue of Liberty and the gleaming steel buildings that it seemed to call up a Walt Whitman feel,” Simon said.

I have seen the movie more than once. Enjoying it many years later and seeing the big hair and shoulder pads of that era.

Movie Time

07/27/2019
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A Photo a Week Challenge: Unexpected

I passed this woman as I was walking along the beach this week, and something about her stance made me want to capture her in a photo. Her expression, the way she was standing hand on hip. I snapped the photo and then as I always do, take a second just in case. It wasn’t until I uploaded the photos to my computer that I saw what I captured in the second photo. Quite unexpected.

Unexpected

07/23/2019
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Blue Squares in July

Becky’s theme for July squares is Blue

On Sunday the day was a scorcher, the temperature was 100 degrees with a real feel of 112. My husband and I headed to the Newark Museum, right in our home state of New Jersey. This beautiful glass was on display and I thought it perfect for July square blues.

07/17/2019
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Blue Squares in July

Becky’s theme for July squares is Blue

I happened to walk past one of the windows in my kitchen yesterday, when I saw a butterfly land on a tree. I usually keep my camera on the kitchen table, handy for moments like this. I snapped a few pics as it stayed put, and when it did move on it stayed within eye shot. I looked it up assuming it was a Swallowtail, but found it did not match the photos. Searching farther (yay for the internet!) I found it was a Red-spotted Purple Butterfly. I messaged my friend who is the President of our local Audubon Society chapter, and he confirmed the ID. I felt this butterfly’s beautiful blue markings qualified him for today’s blue square.

07/14/2019
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Blue Squares in July

Becky’s theme for July squares is Blue.

Friends in blue,chasing the blues away.

These are two friends of mine. The woman was in a car accident in her 20’s leaving her with Aphasia, the loss of ability to sometimes understand or express speech, caused by a brain injury. The young man suffered a stroke in his 40’s. I met them when I volunteered at a wonderful Center for people with aphasia. Their friendship, camaraderie and positive attitudes were an inspiration to me everyday.

07/09/2019
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Blue Squares in July

Becky’s theme for July squares is Blue

It was drizzly yesterday morning, which put a damper on my intentions to go to the beach with a friend. I switched gears, and decided we could still go, we just wouldn’t spend the day actually sitting on the beach, instead we could check out the shops in the town of Asbury Park and go to the boardwalk. There is a mural along the boardwalk that I love, part of the Wooden Walls project where artists were invited to paint murals along the boardwalk http://woodenwallsproject.com/

The artist always says to take a photo in front of his mural when visiting, and send it to him on Instagram. So I did. The blue hair is my blue for today,and the stripes in my dress.

I love the faces of the women in the mural painted by Jeffrey Fulvimari. Here he is talking about his art.

Blue

 

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