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Upstate New York, Lake Champlain at Fort Saint Frederic 16  April 2024 It was a beautiful Spring day. I had WAGS (West Addison General Store)  potato egg salad, Gold Peak Sweet Tea, and some Utz ripple potato chips.   ..read more

Park at Asnieres in Spring 1887 Vincent Van Gogh 1853 ~ 1890 oil on canvas ~ wikiart.org In the spring, what I look forward to is seeing...the first robin, the first daffodil, flowering trees, sunshine, and sandals on my feet. For painting, as a child I loved the subject of spring the most. The joyful feeling of so many colorful flowers out of winter's white was magic to me.  If you can get out and about, then consider taking pictures of the flowers and trees of spring.  Paint your favorite image of spring ..read more

Baked Kale Chips & Garlic Powder The first time making baked kale chips with garlic powder is probably my last. They are a fun texture to eat. They are not a fun flavor. Note, that my sense of smell and taste has been greatly limited since the covid booster in 2022. Sadly, I was able to taste the kale chips. I had to shovel them in, chew, and chase with spring water in order to tolerate them. I didn't use any oil, just wash and bake on low. I might use them crushed up to add to another veggie or salad.    ..read more

What happens more often than not, is that when I'm ready to go out and about, so is the rain. Earlier, the sun was shinning. Then the clouds became thick, low and darker like the solar eclipse as totality nears. There is no way I'm going back and forth packing up donations and transfer station drop offs in the pouring rain. Minutes later, the room brightens. I see a sliver of blue sky in the southwest. I hear no rain. This is how it will be for a few days as a massive storm system plumps up Earth in the Spring. Ah, more blue sky appears. Too late, I don't feel like packing up and ..read more

This is a very interesting documentary. There is good information about trees, and the forests. Enjoy ..read more

From The Poetical Works of Eliza Cook, Song of the Seagull, last stanza We hold our course o'er the deep or the land, O'er the swelling tide or weed-grown strand; We are safe and joyous when mad waves roll, We sport o'er the whirlpool, the rock, and the shoal;-- Away on the winds we plume our wings, And soar the freest of all free things Oh! the sea-gull leads a merry life In the glassy calm or tempest strife.   Eliza Cook In 1980, I bought an old book that was to be the first of a collection of poetry books by women poets. Alas, I didn't find the old obscure books of poetry to ..read more

The solar eclipse from here in northwestern Vermont was a magical event. The total dark part didn't last long enough. I used a glasses' filter over an old cell phone lens. The photograph is of the eclipse about half way through. None of the other photos show the Moon or any part of the phases. Did you have a chance to see the eclipse? Solar Eclipse over Vermont during the dark totality ..read more

The rarely used top shelf can have some surprises. Clearing out things, I emptied my dish collection in the bottom cabinet. I didn't bother with the top hanging cabinets until I decided to rearrange things. A beverage center is a must for me. I don't know why, but it makes me feel organized, spiffy, relaxed. With all I need right there, there's no turning around to see dishes in the sink or have reason to go hunting for something or other. Moving things, I found more dishes to donate on the top shelf. So a packing them up I go for a thrift store drop off next week. Do you have a beverage cent ..read more

Near Whitehouse, New Jersey this morning at 10:23 UTC, a 4.7 magnitued Earthquake, 7.0 km, NNE at 4.7 km in depth. Earthquake 4.8 It was so weird to feel and see movement, I sent in a report to the United States Geological Society (USGS). Then I checked their earthquake make to see a red dot! There actually was an earthquake at the time I felt it.  via GIPHY On Earth, there are humans that are sensitive to Earth's geomagnetic field. We have sensations and/or experience physical symptoms when there is tectonic plate movement of some sort. The experience is similar to what birds and anim ..read more