It’s National Wine Day – No Whining Please

Today’s the day to celebrate the grape! Nectar of the gods, fruit of the vine, delightful, delectable and divine is WINE. I grew up in an Italian household so drinking red wine with meals was de riguer and when I was married the first time, we drank red table wine every night with our dinner.  [...]

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How Old Is The Lead In Your Pencil?

Did you ever see an old pencil?  Well of course you did… you could tell it was old because it had advertising on it and and the phone number was DIamond 436-6871.  Diamond?? Yes kids, telephone exchanges used to be designated by words.  Usually just the first two letters or sometimes three letters of the [...]

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Raptor Rapture

That’s right, you read it correctly!  Magnificent birds belong to the  Raptor classification and we are lucky enough to see some of them up close and personal.  Murray attended the RaptorFest in NYC which is produced by Hawk Creek Wildlife Inc.  Urbanites get to see all sorts of fascinating winged creatures.  And so do we, [...]

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10 Signs Summer Is over

                            THURSDAY’S TOP TEN Summer is waning just like the new moon!  Oh and you can tell; there are signs everywhere! How depressing! I sometimes think I want to live in “An Endless Summer”. Labor Day weekend is here, the traditional end of the summer vacation and just like robins are the harbingers of Spring, [...]

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Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words-Thursday’s Top 10

Last week, I published 10 A words and am thinking I’ll just cruise through the alphabet.  So stick around and check back, hopefully I’ll get back to keeping this list thing going for Thursdays.  Pretty funny since it’s now 12:29am Sunday morning. Baggywrinkle  – a frayed out rope used on ship rigging to prevent chafing. [...]

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Come FLY With Me!

Photos courtesy of Murray Head Have you EVER seen such amazing photographs of a fly?  These macro shots of insects are so revealing and intimate and I am in awe of all their little parts – NOW IF they would just stay outside and not come into my house, I would really appreciate it and [...]

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Collections on Steroids – Thursday’s Top Ten

I’m a collector, my husband is a collector and so you can only envision the stuff in our home. Or can you?  A while ago I did a blog post about my Flamingo collection which I refer to as kitschy.  See link:  http://pbenjay.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/florida-kitsch-is-cool/.  Oh the collections we have!!! Just to name a few;  There are [...]

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La Vie en Rose – A Look Here and There

I always maintain that La Vie en Rose is in work in progress but perhaps this confection of a cottage is almost done since we both swear we certainly can’t add or put another thing into the house.   Murray was here on Sunday, he opted to come even though the weather was bad and he [...]

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GIRL SCOUT COOKIES – They’re BAaacckkkk !!!

Why oh why did I ever bring those cookies home?  I know why I bought them, I mean really whoever says, “No, I don’t want to buy your cookies”, “Now scram!”  Okay so I bought not one but three boxes (no accounting for lack of self-discipline).  Then I brought them home from the office last [...]

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Art is Where You Find It – The CITY CANVAS

Many of you know that in my FAB FOTO FRIDAY segment, I have a few ongoing series such as RED,  FACES , Art Is Where You Find It and a couple others.  These photos were taken in Lower Manhattan and through the eye of the artist shooting them, an every day cityscape becomes a piece [...]

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