1935. hitchcock moment

a black cawing crow

perched in a maze of branches

a hitchcock moment 🦊❤️

Who cannot be reminded of Alfred Hitchcock when they see a crow?  🦊❤️

1934. walter lantz’s masterpiece

 

in a web of wood

pileated woodpecker

woody woodpecker? 🦊❤️

I was walking in the morning  quiet when a heard a distant “knock-knock-knock”. It didn’t take long to locate a big, beautiful Pileated Woodpecker vigorously plowing its beak into a tree. Walter Lantz, famous American animator artist got the idea for his Woody Woodpecker from seeing a woodpecker on his honeymoon.  Woody’s catch phrase is  “Guess Who? - ha ha ha ha ha “. The rest is history.  🦊❤️

1933. put me in coach…

all decked out in green

“put me in coach i’m ready…

for my end zone dance!!” 🦊❤️

Yulan is all decked out in her Philadelphia Eagles Christmas gifts in anticipation of today’s game.  She’s working hard on her post TD victory dance.  🦊❤️

1932. winter train watching

a crisp winter night

perfect for watching the trains

kicking up the snow 🦊❤️

Our regular Saturday night routine is to get Chinese takeout and watch the live remote rail camera capturing mainly CSX trains rolling through Deshler Ohio. Tonight was especially fun as the camera captured two young train watchers in the snow watching a long freight train rolling through the snow. It brought back good childhood memories. 🦊❤️

1931. a gallon a day keep nosebleeds away

 

when the heat goes on

distilled water is my friend

“nosebleeds stay away” 🦊❤️

When cold weather cranks up and my heater stays on more than I like, the air becomes really dry and my nosebleeds start to crop up. Consequently I find myself driving from store to store to buy quantities of distilled water to use in my two humidifiers.  Some days I feel like a gold prospector.  🦊❤️

1930. what day is it anyway?

 

today is thursday

but it feels like a sunday

it is new years day 🦊❤️

I sat looking out of the window as we ate a lazy dinner after over eating at our friend’s home on New Year’s Eve. The sun was getting ready to set. My thoughts were consumed with sorting out what day it was.  It felt like a Sunday. But it couldn’t be a Sunday because football wasn’t on the television. Football wasn’t on the TV because we don’t have cable. Then it dawned on me that tomorrow is Friday so today must be Thursday. I remembered that New Year’s Eve was on Wednesday evening this year. I brilliantly deduced that today must be Thursday despite feeling like Sunday. Happy New Year!!🦊❤️

1929. year’s end

 

this year’s at its end

and so is the art show that 

once hung on these walls 🦊❤️

The year 2025 is in its last hours of being.  What a year it has been. My marriage to Yulan is by far the highpoint of the year. Close behind was my art exhibit “Remembering Tommy” the beloved cat that we helped take care of as he lived in Wissahickon Park. His life was a long and rich one and he touched many lives. I was grateful to have honored him by my art depicting moments with him in his home in the woods. His three month show has ended… his memory lives on. 🦊❤️