Ate Owner's Tax Return
Originally uploaded by caprimulgiformes
Found this smiling doggy on Flickr and couldn't resist posting it! I like the caption, too! lol!
Uploaded by caprimulgiformes on 24 Apr 08, 10.07AM EDT.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Ate Owner's Tax Return
Ate Owner's Tax Return
Originally uploaded by caprimulgiformes
Thursday, July 29, 2010
So you think you've got a lot of snow? You should have been around during the winter of '48
So you think you've got a lot of snow? You should have been around during the winter of '48
Originally uploaded by Romair
didn't take this shot, but I vividly remember that winter of 1948. There was so much snow, you didn't dig a path from your front door, you dug a tunnel. This shot was taken with a Kodak Brownie box camera by my wife's brother, Lem, on their farm in the Berkshire Hills in Western Massachusetts. This being a family poultry farm with 10,000 chickens that absolutely had to be fed and watered and the eggs picked, even this amount of snow couldn't halt operations.
Here's an e-mail I got from Lem re the above:
Rog,
I recall that shot vey well. I don't know how you got that photo. Those were the good old days when winters were hard and long and the men were strong and hardy.
You probaly know that the winter of 1943-44 was one where the drifts came over the telephone wires and blocked us from getting out for a week without electric power until a state diesel snowthrower came to unblock the corks on West road directly north and south of our house.. That was so scary that the following year when Ed was born (Feb '45), Ma went to the hospital a week early because of the fear of being socked in again. Ask Mairi what she remembers about this.
Thanks for the memories.
Lem
I've put together a set called Our Life Story depicting our life together over the past half century and containing over 150 images and descriptions which, for the most part, are in chronological order. Check it out and tell me what you think of it. Here's a sample page of a loose leaf book I've put together using the images and descriptions included in this set.
Uploaded by Romair on 5 Jan 10, 11.43AM EDT.
This is what snow used to look like where we live now!! We're lucky if we get a couple of feet of snow in any winter lately! Global warming. Now that's what I call SNOW!!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Spice Bush Swallowtail on Phlox
Spice Bush Swallowtail on Phlox
Originally uploaded by JacquiT
A side view of the Spice Bush Butterfly. My power was out yesterday but will catch up as soon as I can!!! (c) JacquiT All rights reserved
Uploaded by JacquiT on 27 Jul 10, 3.42PM
I saw this and it took my breath away. This was on Flickr and I couldn't get over how beautiful it was! I miss seeing butterflies like this up here. We don't have any of the bigger ones for some strange reason. It didn't used to be that way here! There used to be the bigger butterflies, I can't figure out what's keeping them away from here!
Monday, July 26, 2010
A sheep's eye view
A sheep's eye view
Originally uploaded by Patricia Speck
Taken today from the moor in Brecon Beacons National Park.
Uploaded by Patricia Speck on 26 Jul 10, 4.40PM EDT.
This is from one of my contacts on Flickr. I couldn't get over how beautiful the scenery is and the sheep lying there overlooking it!! Looks like something out of the Bible!
Friday, July 16, 2010
Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher???
Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher???
Originally uploaded by anslatadams
Here is another bird riled up by the kitty, I think it's a Blue/Grey gnatcatcher, but not sure! That cat was so laid back he/she didn't pay any attention to the birds! lol
American Robin
American Robin
Originally uploaded by anslatadams
This was one of the birds riled up by the kitty! Thanks to the kitty I was able to really get a fairly good shot of the birds as they weren't going anywhere, they were too busy fussing! lol
Sweet kitty at my doctor's office!
Sweet kitty at my doctor's office!
Originally uploaded by anslatadams
He/she looks healthy, too! I think it belongs to the horse farm behind the doctor's office. All the birds were upset that this kitty was there and were making quite a fuss! LOL! I was able to get a few good shots of the birds, too!
Another view from the horse farm in Williamstown, MA showing part of the Taconic Mountain Range.
Another view from the horse farm in Williamstown, MA showing part of the Taconic Mountain Range.
Originally uploaded by anslatadams
A beautiful view with the Taconic Mountains in the distance! Looking west towards NY State.
Uploaded by anslatadams on 12 Jul 10, 5.19PM EDT.
Another view of the horse farm with the white horse
Another view of the horse farm with the white horse
Originally uploaded by anslatadams
I took this photo when I was in Williamstown last week. It's so beautiful over there and I love this horsefarm! That particular day, it was breezy and cool, a nice front had come through, but unfortunately that day only lasted once, then the heatwave came back in earnest!!
apollo-11-launch-supersonic.jpg (JPEG Image, 516x387 pixels)
apollo-11-launch-supersonic.jpg (JPEG Image, 516x387 pixels) What a beautiful photo of an historic day, never to be forgotten by me!! I was in our childhood home in the living room watching it with my mother! I made an audio tape of it that I have to this day although
it's not very clear anymore, sounds muffled, not sure why! You can hear Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra talking! I had
to laugh when Walter Cronkite said, "The building's shaking!!!" I imagine it was! Today marks 41 years since that day, I can't believe it's been 41 years! It just seems like yesterday!! Where has time gone???!!
it's not very clear anymore, sounds muffled, not sure why! You can hear Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra talking! I had
to laugh when Walter Cronkite said, "The building's shaking!!!" I imagine it was! Today marks 41 years since that day, I can't believe it's been 41 years! It just seems like yesterday!! Where has time gone???!!
File:Apollo 11 Launch2.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
File:Apollo 11 Launch2.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 41 years ago we watched in awe as that beautiful Saturn V Rocket shook the earth and thundered into the
heavens!!! "The building's shaking" shouted Walter Crokite. I will never forget this as long as I live, what a wonderful time to live in America!! Man on the way to the moon. When will we go back there, I echo this from my favorite Astronaut James Lovell! What a wonderful time to be an American! God bless America, and may we never lose this wonderful vision!!
heavens!!! "The building's shaking" shouted Walter Crokite. I will never forget this as long as I live, what a wonderful time to live in America!! Man on the way to the moon. When will we go back there, I echo this from my favorite Astronaut James Lovell! What a wonderful time to be an American! God bless America, and may we never lose this wonderful vision!!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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Monday, July 12, 2010
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Memories of my old home town, Augusta, GA in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Those were fantastic days! My sister was a teenager in the late 1950s in Augusta, (actually in 1959 she was 10 and I was 5) and me being 5 years younger, I would tag along with her on some dates ( I think my mother made her do it, lol!!).
I remember the Butts Memorial bridge over the Augusta canal where you would beg your parents to gun the car engine as you went over it for a second of weightlessness! lol I loved that bridge when I was a kid and then later for its gorgeous decorations. It was dedicated to (I think his title was General) Archibald Butts, who died on the Titanic. We went to Allen park to watch the baseball games and crossed that footbridge over the Augusta Canal, and the Pepsi Cola plant was across the canal from the baseball field. I think back then our team was called the Augusta Lions??? Not sure. Lot of history in Augusta and still is. Have you seen Augusta, in the last 20 years or so?? It's really coming into its own. Trees shade Broad street and the River Walk is soooo beautiful! with all the gorgeous fountains and the restored Cotton Exchange building! If you haven't gone in last 20 years, you should go for a short visit like at Christmas, they have it soooo beautiful at Christmas with a giant Christmas tree on top of the River Walk. Mayor DeVaney was the last mayor I remember before we moved up here and he really did a fantastic job with restoring downtown Augusta! Unfortunately I heard he was killed in a car accident just a few years ago and he was still so young. Awful! Oh yes! Do you remember the #1 drive in on highway one I think that's where WBBQ used to be!! I remember going with my sister and her "social" dance partner there to get a milkshake and you could go up there and fill out a request card for a song you wanted to hear them play! Oh yes, Augusta was a fantastic town in the 1950s and early 60s for kids. You had Woolworths, Kresses, H.L. Green's, all those neat stores that we all liked along with Sears, JC Penney, JB Whites, (a big fave among teens), Cullums, (too expensive for us, lol,) Florshiem shoes, lets see, oh yea and the S&S cafeteria!! I LOVED that place!! and the food was soooo yummy! My parents would take us there for awhile almost every Sunday after church! Since I was about 5 years old in 1959, that would have made my sister 10 years old then. I loved going to Woolworths, and Kresses and H.L. Greens because they had the neatest things there for kids!! Including those fun photo booths where you could make the silliest faces and then laugh at them later!! The wonderful 5 & 10 cent stores! Many wonderful memories of those places! Don't forget beautiful Lombard's Pond on Highway 25. Where every kid went on a hot summer day for a day of a lot of swimming and fun! Oh I miss those places, but we can always return to them in our minds! I remember when Tobacco Road and Windsor Springs road were just and intersection of two-two lane blacktops and nothing but woods out there, it was considered way out in "the sticks". It was where every parent took their teenager to practice driving since there wasn't hardly any traffic out there at all. Not so now! lol. Too bad urban sprawl has ruined all these wonderful places. Like my daddy (God rest his soul) always said: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" In other words, if it's nice the way it is, just leave it that way, darn it!! Oh well, that part of Augusta, Georgia will live on in the memories and photos of the baby boomers that lived in Augusta, Georgia in the 1950s, 1960s, and the early 1970s. It was still a very nice place to live in Richmond County back then!!
It was fun walking down memory lane with you!!
I remember the Butts Memorial bridge over the Augusta canal where you would beg your parents to gun the car engine as you went over it for a second of weightlessness! lol I loved that bridge when I was a kid and then later for its gorgeous decorations. It was dedicated to (I think his title was General) Archibald Butts, who died on the Titanic. We went to Allen park to watch the baseball games and crossed that footbridge over the Augusta Canal, and the Pepsi Cola plant was across the canal from the baseball field. I think back then our team was called the Augusta Lions??? Not sure. Lot of history in Augusta and still is. Have you seen Augusta, in the last 20 years or so?? It's really coming into its own. Trees shade Broad street and the River Walk is soooo beautiful! with all the gorgeous fountains and the restored Cotton Exchange building! If you haven't gone in last 20 years, you should go for a short visit like at Christmas, they have it soooo beautiful at Christmas with a giant Christmas tree on top of the River Walk. Mayor DeVaney was the last mayor I remember before we moved up here and he really did a fantastic job with restoring downtown Augusta! Unfortunately I heard he was killed in a car accident just a few years ago and he was still so young. Awful! Oh yes! Do you remember the #1 drive in on highway one I think that's where WBBQ used to be!! I remember going with my sister and her "social" dance partner there to get a milkshake and you could go up there and fill out a request card for a song you wanted to hear them play! Oh yes, Augusta was a fantastic town in the 1950s and early 60s for kids. You had Woolworths, Kresses, H.L. Green's, all those neat stores that we all liked along with Sears, JC Penney, JB Whites, (a big fave among teens), Cullums, (too expensive for us, lol,) Florshiem shoes, lets see, oh yea and the S&S cafeteria!! I LOVED that place!! and the food was soooo yummy! My parents would take us there for awhile almost every Sunday after church! Since I was about 5 years old in 1959, that would have made my sister 10 years old then. I loved going to Woolworths, and Kresses and H.L. Greens because they had the neatest things there for kids!! Including those fun photo booths where you could make the silliest faces and then laugh at them later!! The wonderful 5 & 10 cent stores! Many wonderful memories of those places! Don't forget beautiful Lombard's Pond on Highway 25. Where every kid went on a hot summer day for a day of a lot of swimming and fun! Oh I miss those places, but we can always return to them in our minds! I remember when Tobacco Road and Windsor Springs road were just and intersection of two-two lane blacktops and nothing but woods out there, it was considered way out in "the sticks". It was where every parent took their teenager to practice driving since there wasn't hardly any traffic out there at all. Not so now! lol. Too bad urban sprawl has ruined all these wonderful places. Like my daddy (God rest his soul) always said: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" In other words, if it's nice the way it is, just leave it that way, darn it!! Oh well, that part of Augusta, Georgia will live on in the memories and photos of the baby boomers that lived in Augusta, Georgia in the 1950s, 1960s, and the early 1970s. It was still a very nice place to live in Richmond County back then!!
It was fun walking down memory lane with you!!
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Hands Across the Sand, Cedar Key, FL
Hands Across the Sand, Cedar Key, FL
Originally uploaded by Greenpeace USA 2010
Over one hundred people gather to join hands in Cedar Key, Florida on June 26, 2010 as part of Hands Across the Sand, an international event founded by Floridian David Rauschkolb, to oppose offshore oil drilling and champion clean energy and renewables. Greenpeace was a co-sponsor of the event. Photo by Bruce Proctor
Tell Congress: No drilling, no coal, clean energy now!
For the latest blogs, videos, & info on the BP oil blowout and spill check this page regularly: www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/gulf-oil-spill
Uploaded by Greenpeace USA 2010 on 26 Jun 10, 3.22PM EDT.
OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (still being typed)
OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the power of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to ABOLISH it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness,Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,pursuing invariably the same object, evidence a design to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these states. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained, and when so suspended, he has has utterly neglected to attend to them...................................................................................................................................
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the power of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to ABOLISH it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness,Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,pursuing invariably the same object, evidence a design to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these states. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained, and when so suspended, he has has utterly neglected to attend to them...................................................................................................................................
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
white and orange kittens
white and orange kittens
Originally uploaded by meejoebee
we are available for adoption at the Oakville and Milton Humane Society in Oakville, Ontario, Canada
www.oakvillemiltonhumane.ca
Please adopt from your local animal shelter. Recycled pets are the best!
Uploaded by meejoebee on 2 Jul 10, 8.20PM EDT.
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About Me
- anslatadams
- I can be very social, but then a recluse. I like my privacy when I'm working in my flower garden. I like to meditate there with God and the birds and the flowers. I love animals, all God's creatures and I can't stand people that abuse them! I strongly urge anyone that wants a pet to adopt from your local animal shelter. There are many loving animals that are at shelters waiting for a loving home. You can find me most of the time on Flickr where I have a photostream!
