THE SONGS OF A NIGHTINGAIL

  My Mom and me posing on our brick front porch with brick walk & brick chimney wall.  Dad and me with the brick wall around the base of our bay window. I was 4 when I posed here on our brick walk with the brick porch and chimney behind me. The brick chimney, porch, and walk made a great posing place for my Mom in 1947. Maybe not so great a place for me to pose at age 10 in my Mom’s old bathing suit and high heels thinking I was hot stuff.  Good grief – look at that awful hairdo! My middle sis and me when I was 12 and she was 6 or 7.  Thank heaven my hair had grown out and Mom didn’t try to give me another permanent. My brother and middle sis playing ping-pong on our terrace with a low brick wall behind them. Mom and Dad posed in front of our brick chimney in 1967. My husband and youngest daughter caught by surprise in front of the raised brick hearth and wall he built for the woodstove in our Oakhurst house in 1978. Our daughters with Tigger, the cat, in front o...

  The biggest bird news currently, of course, is on Monday, June 2 nd , at 10:46 AM, Sunny, one of the young eagles we've been watching, ‘flew the coop’.  Luckily I saw the event take place. J   She just stood there a moment on a high branch, spread wings checking the wind, and then with a little hop, took off.  Ohhhh boy!  I wonder how much longer it will be before Gizmo takes that giant leap?  Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Sunny found her way back to the nest and hung out with her sister for the rest of the day and night. Meanwhile, Gizmo has been exercising her wings like crazy waiting for that moment when she felt ready to join her sister and parents in the air.  This morning (Saturday) she still looked a little hesitant but finally let go only to decide she maybe wasn't quite ready and tried to get back on her perch but slipped and fell, but according to the latest reports, she found her way safely to a nearby tree where she is resting from her first fl...