Holes to Heaven

Thanks to the great Jack Johnson for that so appropriate song title...

Connecticut Holes to Heaven

Discovered (way too) early last Thursday morning...

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As a bonus, here's a little video of

Hanna's Havoc in Connecticut

(would have been perfect - for this post at least -

had she been a Hurrricane. Glad she wasn't, tho!)

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xoabb

P. S. I'm postin' early so I can GO TO BED!

Happiness to you all!

P. P. S. (8 am Wed.) Just changed post date to Wed.

(To be consistent - it's the OCD/AR side of me rearing its head.)

Busy Bee...

Work is never done when your a buzzing bumblebee...

Achoo! 

Bless You! 

Photo from the Missouri creek bottom.

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xoabb

expect anything!

What's Your Focus?

Do you focus on what's close at hand?

Or what's far away?

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Either way, focus on something.

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xoabb

expect anything!

Sunday Serenity

Honor the Sacred

Honor the Earth, our Mother

Honor the Elders

Honor all with whom we

Share the Earth -

Four-legged, two-legged

Winged ones

Swimmers, crawlers

Walk in balance and peace.

~Native American Elder

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xoabb

expect anything!

You Lookin' at Me???

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xoabb

expect anything!

P.S. Inspired by Country Girl Kate!

Sky Watch Friday

Join us!

In black and white...

and color...

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xoabb

expect anything!

The Flight ~Path~ Home

On our flight home from Columbia, GB and I flew into Westchester County Airport. It's fairly close to where we live, but I never thought we'd loop around our area of the northeast during our descent. Guess what? We did!

(click on photo to enlarge)

I was sorting through my many (try thousands of) photos, editing the better ones, trashing the worser (that's a word - my word) ones when, lo and behold, I came across the above photo. Never in a million years did I expect to find what I did, (once I bothered to really look). It was a perfect aerial photo of the area I live in!

That's I-95 cutting a path across the photo, and just to its left, (until it branches off on the other side of the river) is the Amtrak/Metro North rail line. The golf course in the foreground is Long Shore; the one on the far side of the river is Shorehaven Golf Club. Our home is somewhere on the far side of the river between the golf course and railroad tracks. Considering where we live, isn't it amazing we have an ~infestation~ of deer, a worrisome number of coyote, and a bothersome amount of wild turkey, never mind our plethora of squirrels and rabbits?

You know, I really must write a note and request USAir pay more attention to the condition of their jet windows! Dirty windows certainly affect the quality of photos taken!

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xoabb

expect anything!

Godson

Godson...(aka Nature Boy)

As my brother wrote: "When this kind of thing is going on,

it is inevitable that he'll end up in the pond.

Sure enough, he was fully submerged about 10 minutes later."

Thanks, little bro, for letting me share your photo...

tho I didn't even ask...uh-oh...

Godson Dodgie with a small ringneck snake he found on our

first walk to the valley below our folks MO home.

Photo courtesy of my brother, also Dodgie's dad, Bill. Thanks!

Wading in the creek - and staying dry - isn't as easy as it looks!

(And this one is my photo.)

This one's easy! G is for Godson, (aka Nature Boy). Dodgie is my Godson, and to this day I am so honored to have had that title bestowed upon me. While we were all in Missouri, we went on several hikes to the creek bottom down the hill from our folk's home. Needless to say, it's beautiful there and there's always something new to experience. On our first foray, Dodgie found a ring-neck snake which his father captured beautifully, as you can see. Our second trip wasn't quite as dry. We hit the rock slabs of the creek bed and off came Dodgie's shoes. Despite numerous warnings from his dad (my brother, Bill) that the immersed rocks were mighty slick, Dodgie just knew wading was something he had to do. And, no, Dad, I won't get wet! That lasted all of two steps into the water. You can see the results in the second photo.

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xoabb

expect anything!

We Didn't Start the Fire...

But GB sure did...

Because of the above activity,

we have had the fire department at our home.

Twice.

(click on comic to make larger.)

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xoabb

expect anything!

Flawed Beauty

Here's to a fun-filled Labor Day Monday!

The summer's been wonderful - short - but wonderful. 

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xoabb

expect anything!