A Birthday

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DIANNE !

You'd better watch your step! That guest blogger of yours might be looking to usurp your place in the blogging world!

Straight No Chaser

I hope that a lot of you got to watch and listen to Straight No Chaser on PBS last Wednesday night. (or yesterday afternoon on another PBS channel. - I'm lucky enough to get three of them on Dish Network.) This ten man a capella group is just plain fun. I hadn't heard them before.

For those who don't know them, their group formed when they were in college more than ten years ago, and after they got together again years later - well, the rest is history.

The last section of their concert on PBS was devoted to Christmas songs. I have to admit, I get pretty sick of carols on radio and TV in December. Like so much these days, they are just over-done. But these guys are different. They did the Carol of the Bells so beautifully! But the clincher was their final song - Twelve Days of Christmas, in their own version. Funny!

I went to YouTube this morning, and found several versions they have done of this song over the years. I liked this one.

Shadow Shot Sunday

That time of the week again! Tracy is hosting Shadow Shot Sunday. Go to visit her blog, Hey Harriet, to see what people from around the world have found in the shadows.

Sitting in my living room one afternoon, I notice a single ray of sun lighting a glass bowl. Taking a note from my friend Sylvia's lovely shadow shots each week, I became curious how other colored glass would look in the same beam of light. This was the result.

Sky Watch Friday

The wonderful team of Klaus, Sandy, Fishing Guy, Wren, Louise and Sylvia is doing a great job for us, and has once again brought us Sky Watch Friday, so please follow the link, and view gorgeous skies from all over the world.

I watched another quiet sunset about a week ago from my deck. And then spied a pretty little crescent moon up there too

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Think Green Thursday

On Thursdays here in Blogland, we start Thinking Green, and Michelle hosts our meme for us.

Today my post will be short and sweet. I just want to remind everyone who finds themselves on the shore or a pier, sailing or in a fishing boat, do NOT be tempted to dispose of even the smallest piece of trash - not even a bottle cap or a cigarette - by tossing it into the water. Sea birds and other animals will injest it, and it can be fatal to them.


This is a photo of Makana. She is an albatross who lives at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. "Makana" means "gift" in Hawaiian, and the staff does consider her a gift. She was found injured, and could not be returned to the wild, so she is a permanent resident of the aquarium. She is one of the lucky ones. Her photo and the one following are from the Sea Notes blog.


This second photo is of a plastic tube containing all the contents of the stomach of just one albatross, found dead. I believe that is enough said.

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Meantime, if you'd like to view a great video on the great white shark (a desperately endangered species), as it appeared on TV, visit this link to the Monterey Bay Aquarium blog, Sea Notes, and read their post of November 23rd, titled White Peacock.

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