the chartreuse sparrow.....

as the sun sets

and the sparrow roosts in the curve of an 0

sing out...

...if you need a cocktail

Jan's pouring!

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Bocce Mafia

the last weekend of September means…

Little Italy Days in Bloomfield

while tunes of Radio Italia play in the background...

Bocce is serious business

And oh my…

the aroma of Italian food is divine

Do you know how hard it is to take

photos while eating a cannoli???

L b.

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Hidden in Hydrangeas

George: Mary... [picks up Mary's robe, which is lying

on the ground] Okay, I give up. Where are you?

 

Mary: Over here in the hydrangea bushes.

It’s a Wonderful Life

Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed

1946

H.

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arrrgh...talk like a pirate day.....

September 19th...every year

International Talk Like A Pirate Day

St. Augustine FL 2011

the point of the holiday…

from the post... arrgh defined

there is no point!

silliness is the holiday’s best selling point

from the post...gunpowder, rum and tattoos

originating in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers

aka Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket

from the post...step into.....

The day gained notoriety when Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist Dave Barry

published a Sept. 8, 2002 column about the

fun, and great potential for such a holiday.

need help generating your own pirate name…

try the iTunes app a.k.a.

a.k.a. dubbed me Jolly Swordfish

arrrgh, what be your pirate name?

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aging bikers.....

Sprocket...

a profiled wheel with teeth that mesh with a chain

commonly found in bicycles

HAAMBA

Hartwood Acres Ageless Mountain Bikers Association

They’ve packed their sprockets and gears...

and flown to England for some

gear-shifting-sprocket-riding-adventures.

HAAMBA-sprocketed-logo designed as the host gift for the

estate where they will park their aging gears

your sprockets in gear?

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Royal Leeks.....

mysteriously mixed in with my pocket

change of quarters and dimes...

was a British pound

bearing the symbol of a leek in a coronet

one of the symbols of Wales

edge inscription: PLEIDIOL WYF I'M GWLAD

"True am I to my country"

makes you think twice before

chopping some royal leeks up for soup...

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skullduggery...redefined.....

I have driven by this sign a gazillion times

and it always makes me do a double take

free dirt

free graveyard dirt!

For my garden?

...gives new meaning to pushing up daisies

Free graveyard dirt…

redefines skullduggery, doesn’t it?

I’ll go back soon and pay my respects to this

newly-departed-unknown-soul,

and say thanks for a bit of skullduggery.

 you been up to any skullduggery lately?

maple syrup and waffles.....

the color grades of maple syrup through the sap run

pure maple syrup so fresh, the bottles were still warm

Paul Bunyan’s Pure Maple Syrup is produced by the Enos family in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands

30 to 40 gallons of sap = one gallon of Pure Maple Syrup

Pure Maple Syrup can be stored

in the freezer as it will not freeze

our bottle never made it to the freezer…..

waffles or pancakes? waffles or pancakes?

 

  

Waffles!

M.  E.

Molly Enos, owner

 

 

Watch for Molly on the Today Show this fall!

waffles or pancakes for you?

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then and now.....

then…

...now

perspective

thread and ink

thread: perspective

ink: Perspective Drawing of Men, 1866

        via Karen at The Graphics Fairy

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