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Practicing “Shelter in Place/Stay at Home”. Being a care provider for two Octogenarians with serious health issues I have to play it safe for their sake as we get through this COVID-19 pandemic. That means, staying inside when not at work. (Social Services direct care providers are considered “essential workers”). Posting pics that I never processed. Looking at old pics often brings back sweet memories of yesterday. Stay safe everyone.
I recently asked one of my past students...an African American Male: male black past students. What is your definition of success today....his response is "To Still Be Alive"
This pained me deeply. It should not be this way.
On this day I honor a man who has always shown me that his family is his top priority. In spite of his present circumstances he still manages to always ask her first how she dong when he sees her. His strength continues to inspire and give me comfort when I am feeling down. He hasn't complained. His optimistic attitude keeps me encouraged. More and more I can see at age 89, his days are slowly coming to an end. He has led a good life and done well for his family.
I am so blessed he survived COVID-19. I am so thankful and grateful for the care and attention the nursing home provided during those difficult times. He has not complained through it all. We are fortunate to have resume in-person visits. I hug him a lil bit more tighter and give him extra kisses each visit.
Happy Father's Day Pop Pop. You are truly one in a million.
{Random Thought 6.20.21}
This design features a "cool" (I hope so anyway) fox in front of a pack of frisky beagles (they look a bit like foxhounds). I was inspired by my own obnoxious . . . uhh, I meant adorable . . . little beagle, Larry, Uno (the hugely popular, first-ever beagle to win Westminster Kennel Club's Best of Show Award), and by the old song "Leader of the Pack." I wanted to show Firefox 3 as the the leader in its field (get it?) I use a Wacom tablet for the silhouettes and my imagination for the sunglasses (I have never actually seen a fox wearing sunglasses). Look for the "3" created by the tail-end of the tail and the fox's shadow (there is a subtle flame effect around the lower part of the "3" too; I don't know if it will show up here, but it's there--I promise). I'm treating the template as if it represents a tiny tshirt. The graphic can be scaled to about 9" x 10".
This devious looking little 1:6th scale artist made black kitty belongs to Tiny Kitty and he to her.
He was made by a terrific woman who sold them on eBay. She would make 5 kitties a week and people would run over one another to be the highest bidder… cost was of no consequence.
I was very lucky to get him and the other members of the Cat Pack without selling a kidney.
For my Flickr groups…
In honor of my birthday month I am challenging myself to post all pics in B/W cuz I LOVE b/w photography. Happy Birthday to ME during COVID-19.
These tulips were taken in our garden at Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex last Spring.
If you would like to see the Shangri-Las performing "Leader of the Pack" Live at the old Brooklyn Fox in Brooklyn, NY in 1964, please visit
Soul Train Cruise. One of the most epic of the 10 cruises I have been on. A close second is the Blue World Travel All Black Cruise.
“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.” – James Baldwin
Abgesehen von der starken Botschaft, finde ich diese Ausstellung auch künstlerisch sehr anspruchsvoll - wer in Berlin ist, unbedingt noch hingehen (bis 16.08. auf dem Washingtonplatz vor dem Hauptbahnhof)
Part of a powerful exhibit titled "Are The Wolves Back?" in Berlin - a pack of bronze wolves stands for the neo-Nazis, nationalists and haters that terrorize German society so much more than the few wolf packs that are again roaming German woods (and are also controversial).
Rainer Opolka, the artist behind The Wolves Are Back says he wants to start a discussion. To him, we are getting way too used to racism and other ugly phenomenons we see in connection with the challenge of accomodating one million refugees in the country. “Many people see terrorism on TV and that makes them afraid,” says Opolka. “They don’t see the difference between the terrorists and the people who have escaped terrorism.”
Pandemic Self Care. Processing pics from the boneyard (my “vault” that stores pics I have taken, but never processed and/or posted).
Stay Safe and remember wearing a mask protects you from me and me from you. We are in this together.
Pandemic Self Care. Processing pics from the boneyard (my “vault” that stores pics I have taken, but never processed and/or posted). Stay safe everyone.
Friday September 19th 2008
Get on at The Jewel, 1.13pm.
Bus is almost full and the floor at the back is sticky with something spilt. An old man in a leather jacket in front studies his Asda receipt. A girl to the left talking into her phone saying "Up Magdalene way? Where we used to go to the karate?" and then "I'm gonna come home and get a Cup-a-Soup and a bath". An advert for the Territorial Army on the panel above the window. Past a nursery where a little boy watches from inside as men rake the garden. Onto Portobello High Street, the driver stops and shouts down that the bus will terminate at Hardengreen Tesco, it's running forty-five minutes late. A blind man with dark glasses gets on and people stand up to help him. Sleigh Drive and Marionville Road. TO LET signs and downhill past an overgrown front garden and the driver shouts something again and a woman gets off and says "Thanks driver, just keep taking the Valium and you'll be okay". Leith Walk is at a complete standstill. Swathes of torn up tarmac and metal fencing like barricades. Eventually to the top, a cyclist in the blindspot. And it's no better here. The driver says he's never seen the city in such a mess as today. A jewellers shop, gold necklaces strung up like smiles. Finally fast, towards the hospital, red berries scattered on some of the trees, a breeze blows the pages. And then past a house where the nameplate on the door says A. HOPE. A dog shits and it's owner stands watching it holding a plastic bag ready. Powerlines mirror the edges of flat, densely packed clouds. At Sheriffhall the driver gets off to phone the depot and leaves me alone on the bus, the indicator ticking. Then returns and says he'll take me to Rosewell, says he "Cannae fuckin' believe it!". It starts to rain, spitting feebly. A field of brown cows. Into Dalkeith, where a hairdresser adjusts the position of a girl's head. And others get on, a man walks up to back and says "What a mess", surveying the rubbish strewn over the floor. He scratches at the inside of his arm, near the elbow. In Poltonhall, a horse and rider on the road, trotting, dappled grey. And a view across the fields to other houses.
A boat covered in tarpaulin.
I can only imagine how much training it took to get Weasel (yeah, that's the dog's name) to sit still on his dog-sized motorcycle.
Leader of The Pack is the third annual motorcycle pledge ride benefiting the Atlanta Humane Society. For more information about the Atlanta Humane Society, visit www.atlantahumane.org/.
Cobb County Police motorcycles, after doing their "ballet" into the parking lot.
Leader of The Pack is the third annual motorcycle pledge ride benefiting the Atlanta Humane Society. For more information about the Atlanta Humane Society, visit www.atlantahumane.org.
(see also jbwhelchel's similar photo here!)
Happy Father's Day. In Memory of my dad.
me holding my father's hand. taken one month after my mom passed away. that day he must have remembered she had passed because he told me he wished he had told her more often how much he loved her and what a good wife she was. I took this picture to remind myself of what a wonderful day it was for me to hear him speaking so deeply of the love he had for her. {Random Thought 6.15.25}
some more shots of one of the big boys, here he is surrounded by his harem, keeping a careful watch over them
PLEASE NO GROUP INVITES OR AWARDS WITH FLASHY BADGES
Practicing “Shelter in Place” . Being a care provider for two Octogenarians with serious health issues I have to play it safe for their sake as we get through this COVID-19 pandemic. Staying inside when not at work. Posting pics that I never processed. Looking at old pics often times bring back sweet memories of yesterday. Stay safe everyone.
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” —
.....and this is EXACTLY what this young man has done. He stays ready and when opportunities have presented themselves he was REaDy.
Oh joy, up and out early into the forest; lots of herding behaviour going on. Mothers with foals looked on with the same puzzled and delighted faces as I must have been sporting. I had to work hard to get ahead of this gang of what I believe to be all girls; their behaviour was eliciting varied responses from other creatures as they covered a considerable amount of ground.