The Pondness Monster?

I saw something odd sticking up out of the water at the other end of the pond and so I grabbed my handy dandy camera and pushed the zoom to it’s fullest.  With my wonderful eyesight (blind) I still couldn’t tell what it was in the viewer so I snapped a photo..
Is this a Lochness [...]

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The Woman in White

The Woman in White by Wilke Collins
Paperback: 672 pages Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics (April 25, 2005) ISBN-10: 1593082800
 
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The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins. , One of the greatest mystery thrillers ever written, Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White was a phenomenal bestseller in the 1860s, achieving even greater success [...]

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Pshaw.. Fall.. yeah, right.

Before dawn I heard my blinds being bounced around… when I took a closer look this is what I found…  can we say there was some anxiouty going on? heh…

So.. I’ve been searching for signs of Fall here in southern Florida… so far… this is it!

Some acorns on a LiveOak Tree.    I guess [...]

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Mailbox Monday..

The guilt of spending money is getting to me..
Normally, seeing a box from Amazon at my door always made me smile.
Not anymore.  Or at least…not for long.  I kinda smile as I open it and see what’s there.. but I hide them on the shelves quickly so I try to forget I spent money.
This [...]

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Empty at the Pond..

The Pond has been deadly quiet.. almost no once has come around.. but I did get one silhouette of the small heron early morning…

And then I saw the turtle on land and close by!

One of the Moorhen chicks had to check him out..

I looked across the pond and saw [...]

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Dogs and Cats..

My girlfriend took me out the other day…
I had a moment of weakness..
(actually, that could happen a lot!.. but I do fight it ..most of the time)
We were in Walmart and I found this really squishy, soft and silky pound puppy.  Ok, well it isn’t a pound puppy (anyone out there remember pound puppies?).  [...]

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Michael Scott

I am about to give a shameless plug for an author who’s books I am enjoying very much.. his name is Michael Scott.
Michael is the author of the Nicholas Flamel series of books, The Alchemyst, the Magician and recently out, the Sorceress, and next May The Necromancer is coming to America, from his beloved Ireland, [...]

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Sometimes It’s Just a Memory.

OLDER THAN DIRT
Someone asked the other day, ‘What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?’
‘We didn’t have fast food when I was growing up,’ I informed him. ‘All the food was slow.‘
‘C’mon, seriously. Where did you eat?’
‘It was a place called ‘at home,” I explained. ! ‘Mum cooked every day and when [...]

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Another Morning at the Pond

The first two shots were from the other day and taken “across the pond”… where the turtles have decided it is their sunning spot..

The photo’s don’t come out great when zoomed to the max.. down below they were “making a dash for the pond”. (and for turtles they are pretty darn fast!… gotta love [...]

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Shadow of the Wind

 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Paperback: 487 pages Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Later Printing edition (January 25, 2005) ISBN-10: 0143034901
 
 
From Publishers Weekly The time is the 1950s; the place, Barcelona. Daniel Sempere, the son of a widowed bookstore owner, is 10 when he discovers a novel, The Shadow of the Wind, by [...]

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