April's ALSO National Kite Flying Month! (Tuesday's Truths Week 80)

It's already the third Tuesday in April, and so for this week's Tuesday's Truths, I'm calling on the figurine featured in the image atop this entry to help me remind peeps that the month of April is National Kite Month. It is also known to be National Gardening and Lawn Month (which I wrote about in a prior entry here on Blogger) as well as being known to be National Poetry Month (which I also discussed in a previous posting here on Blogger).

In any event, according to a web-page, "Every year in April Kite enthusiasts across North America celebrate the history and the future of the world’s favorite pastime by letting their kites fly.  It is a month to celebrate the joy and happiness that comes from letting out the line, letting your kite catch the wind, and letting that kite soar high into the sky."

Of course if you are like Charlie Brown, your joy and happiness can turn into frustration, as evidenced in the Peanuts comic strip (which was evidently published on April 12, 1956) that is posted directly below.

No Friggatriskaidekaphobia for Monte Orange Tulips! (Just like the H.F. Young Clematis!)

OTHER TULIP TYPES ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME ONE

OTHER TUILP TYPES ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME ONE

Today is Friday the Thirteenth and a cool fact worth remembering, is that when any month begins on a Sunday, the thirteenth of that month will fall on a Friday. It is a date that can occur up to three times a year (at maximum), which is the case for this calendar year of 2018. It is now our second Friday the Thirteenth.

This past January is was when 2018's first Friday the Thirteenth occurred; and the third and the last one, will be in July. The fact that Friday the Thirteenth can occur up to three times a year, may have been how the rumor that "bad things happen in threes" got started — that is if one fears this date.

Many people truly fear it! Their apprehension has been labeled Friggatriskaidekaphobia.

But what if one is born on Friday the 13th? Does this mean he/she is destined to a life of bad luck?

I have heard an array of answers to that question, and my favorite answer is, “aren’t you lucky just to be born?” 

Be that as it may, it has been my observation that when it comes to varieties of flowers, they do not tend to suffer from Friggatriskaidekaphobia, for they are willing to wake up from their long winter's nap on Friday the Thirteenth!

My first mention of this was in a 2011 blog post where I discussed the numerous and humongous H.F.Young Clematis flowers which opened up on a Friday the Thirteenth in May.

I thought of those H.F. flowers this morning, when I saw a Monte Orange Tulip in the process of waking up from her "winterized womb," and I have featured my discovery in the images atop this entry, where a wrapped "box" full of this particular tulip type can be seen. (The Monte Orange whom I saw rising from her sleep, is indicated by a circle that I've affixed to the second image.)

A few hours after I took pictures of this Monte Orange Tulip, who seem to have disregarded any negative associations with Friday the Thirteenth, embraced the sunshine, as seen in the following set of photographs.

OTHER TULIP TYPES ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME ONE

OTHER TULIP TYPES ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME ONE

OTHER TULIP TYPES ARE FEATURED IN VOLUME ONE

I'm excited to see the fearless tulips pop up today!

Monday's Memo: April's Also N'tl Poetry Month (ETC)

This past Tuesday, April 3rd 2018, as part of my Tuesday's Truths series, (published here on Blogger) I mentioned in my post that April is National Gardening and Lawn Month.

Today, I'm adding a memo to that entry by reminding you that April is also National Poetry Month. In honor of this fact, I've put an image of Wendell Berry's poem, THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS, atop this posting. I learned of this the poem through Chris Deatherage, the man who designed my website, patriciayoungquist.com. Additionally, as many of you know, Chris also has created other materials for me (including business cards and press releases).

Moreover, he edited and formatted volumes one and two of the Words In Our Beak series (which are pictured below).

VOLUMES ONE AND TWO

A fact worth mentioning during this National Poetry month is that in volume one of this book series there are references to poems, including ones by ones by Joyce Kilmer and Longfellow, poets which I've discussed in prior entries here on Blogger.

April is N'tl Lawn & Gardening Month (Tuesday's Truths WK 78)

VOLUMES ONE AND TWO

Welcome to my seventy-eighth "segment" of my Tuesday's Truths series which happens to coincide with the first Tuesday in the month of April. In the United States of America, this month is considered to be National Gardening and Lawn Month.

A gardening related web-page states "Every April communities, organizations, and individuals nationwide celebrate gardening during National Garden Month. Gardeners know, and research confirms, that nurturing plants is good for us: attitudes toward health and nutrition improve, kids perform better at school, and community spirit grows. Join the celebration and help to make America a greener, healthier, more livable place!"

Gardeners are not the only ones who improve the quality of their lives by spending time in their garden. Wild birds, such as Cam the cardinal who visits my rooftop garden also know the benefits of "hanging out" in a garden. 

She shares many of the benefits re spending time in a garden throughout both volumes of her book series, Words In Our Beak. (their covers can be seen in the image atop this entry). 

Volume two is relatively new to the market, and while it is a book that people will enjoy at anytime, I think that National Lawn and Garden Month is a perfect time to read it.

This is because (as the press release* states) in volume two, "... Cam relates how structural renovations and two major weather storms bring change to the urban garden ecosystem she calls home and how those changes affect both the plantings that give it life and the birds who visit it." 

PRESS RELEASE VOLUME TWO

*This press release was created by Chris Deatherage. As you may recall (from previous posts), he is the one that formatted and edited both versions of Words In Our Beak. And you may also recall that Chris designed my web-site patriciayoungquist.com. He has updated the site with great information re the book series and I highly recommend that you take a look at it.

ADDENDUM FALL 2018: 

The digital versions of Volume One within the Words In Our Beak book series that are mentioned in this entry may only remain available for a limited time, but hardcover versions of Volume One, Two and Three can now be found wherever books are sold.

MY BOOK SERIES

Please click here to go to my blog post that provides details as to where you can get these books. Additionally, I have rendered some images from these books into other formats and they are available via Fine Art America (FAA). Some of my other photographs (Black & White Collection, Kaleidoscopic Images and the famous Mandarin duck who visited NYC) can also be found on my FAA pages.

ADDENDUM SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 2021:

When the third volume of the hard-cover version of Words In Our Beak was released, I withdrew from promoting my former versions of Words In Our Beak. 

The very first one is an iBook and went into Apple's book store in 2015.

This was followed by an ePub version...

... that is available on Amazon and was also published in 2015.

Subsequently, Words In Our Beak's digital versions were published as a soft-cover book (with slight variations) by MagCloud in 2017.

Its press release can be read by clicking here.  

Now with the release of BIRD TALES....

... I've been advised to make mention of my early versions of volume one of Words In Our Beak, they do vary ever so slightly in content from the hard-cover version of volume one.

As of this addendum, I do not intend to create digital or soft-cover versions of Words In Our Beak Volume Two or Words In Our Beak Volume Three.