A Seagull's Work Around to a Cooling Center

When the heat index is predicted to be dangerously high, New York City opens cooling centers in air-conditioned facilities to offer people relief from the heat, but since seagulls don't have access to such places, they have their own methods of getting relief from the heat, which is something I learned on a recent trip (this past Thursday) to Long Beach.

It's Book Lovers Day!

STAY UPDATE RE "WORDS IN OUR BEAK"

August 9 is Book Lovers Day, an unofficial holiday that encourages people to pick up a book (or two) and spend the day reading. ... If you are a book lover yourself, then treat yourself to some quality reading time.

Book Lovers Day is also known as National Book Lovers Day in the United States. Re this date, one web-page states this is a time to "honor all the bookworms and book lovers in your life."

And they go on to say, "If you are a book lover yourself, then treat yourself to some quality reading time."

On this day Cam, a prolific female cardinal (whose stories can be found in our current book series, Words In Our Beak) and I hope you will take this opportunity to spend time with her (and her friends) through volumes one and two her stories (volume three is being formatted) which mostly take place in my rooftop garden.

FALL 2018 ADDENDUM: 

Hardcover versions of Volume One, Two and Three can 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.  [The press release does note my Kindle version of the digital Words In Our Beak, but I withdrew it from Amazon a few years ago and at this time, I do not intend to make it live again.]

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.

Wednesday's Wisdom: "Summer-izing" Books!

Love this cartoon by Mark Parisi! And for Wednesday's Wisdom, I'd like to offer you a way to "summer-ize" (not summarize) your books, dear reader: Take them with you to the ocean to read during these hot summer days, but do so by putting them in my kaleidoscopic-themed totes that are available from Fine America (FAA).

Since, I'm on the subject of reading at the beach, please let me remind you that while both volumes of Cam's book series, Words In Our Beak ...

VOLUMES 1+2

... are great for reading there (or anywhere), part of volume two refers to Cam's (the female cardinal who narrates these stories) trip to Long Beach (on Long Island) where she and her children came upon the bird type known as American Oystercatchers.

Tuesday's Truths WK 88: My Update

A SIGNED COPY IN A BOOK STORE

A SIGNED COPY IN A BOOK STORE

It has been a little over two months (June 3 2018) since I announced (in an entry) some posting schedule changes related to this blog. At that time I informed readers "... this is just a heads up to let you know that in the coming week and until further notice (due to some medical issues and deadlines related to my Words In Our Beak book series), I will not be publishing so frequently."

As regular readers of this blog probably know, I have had a long running series within this blog called Tuesday's Truths, where I discussed interesting facts concerning fauna, flora and related topics.

I may return to this series after my work related to my books, as well as to my endeavors re my photographic pieces on Fine Art America, become less demanding.

But at the moment, my time needs to be devoted to these projects, so please allow me to use this "segment" (week eighty-eight) of my Tuesday's Truths series as a shout out to one of NYC's UWS bookstores, book culture On Columbus.

This shop is the first brick-'n-mortar store to carry volume one of my now two part series (with volume three in the process of being formatted) and I'm honored to say that one of their store managers asked me to autograph it. I did this yesterday and the store's seal can be seen in the images atop this entry.

I'm very hopeful that this will draw attention to Words In Our Beak, and so I ask you, dear reader to please stay tuned.

FALL 2018 ADDENDUM: 

Hardcover versions of Volume One, Two and Three can 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.  [The press release does note my Kindle version of the digital Words In Our Beak, but I withdrew it from Amazon a few years ago and at this time, I do not intend to make it live again.]

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.

A Remedy for Back to School Panic

Maybe if Sally had a back-to-school book bags with one of my kaleidoscopic designs (seen in the "group" image below), she wouldn't be as inclined to panic in the streets re the upcoming start of a new school year!

Remembering Ellen's birthdate...

READ ABOUT THIS BOOK

Normally on this day of August 3rd, I would be calling Ellen Rachel McConnell Blakeman to wish her a happy birthday. However, she died earlier this year and is missed very much by Cam and yours truly.

As some of you may know, volume two of the Words In Our Beak book series is dedicated to her.

I think of Ellen often, but especially today and my thoughts are also with her family (including her mother, her sister Martha, Douglas McConnell, Susan McConnell and Bennett Paul) as well as her friends, especially Loris Damerow, whom Ellen often spoke about whenever we discussed various topics.