My Posting Schedule

IMAGE CREDIT

If you follow this blog with any regularity,  dear reader, then most likely you know that for the past couple of years, my norm has been to publish an entry on a daily basis.

This posting 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 —  (pictured below), I will not be publishing so frequently.

VOLUMES ONE AND TWO

ADDENDUM FALL 2018: 

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.

Soon it will be Father's Day!

VOLUMES ONE AND TWO

Fifteen days from now it will be June 17th, which is Father's Day. Therefore, if you are fortunate enough to still have your father or grandfather, you might want to consider giving them a copy of either volume of the Words In Our Beak book series, which can be seen in the image atop this entry.

Of course anyone you know who is a father, be it a spouse, an offspring, a sibling, a neighbor, a colleague, or a friend, these books make the perfect gift to honor them on this occasion.

Should you decide to get either book (or both of them) in this series, and want to include a bookmark, I have designed one which can be seen (front and back respectively) in the next two photos.

"WIOB" BOOKMARK FRONT

"WIOB" BOOKMARK BACK

As of now, I'm offering to send anyone who purchases (or has already purchased) any version of the Words In Our Beak book series a complimentary bookmark.

"The time has flewn..."

I've shared this Dr. Seuss quote but it bears repeating, because after today, we only have twenty-nine days left until we reach the half-way mark for the half year eve for 2018.

Consider the turtles...

On September 20th 2017, when I took a  walk for pleasure in Central Park, (at someone's advice), I came across an array of animals including the turtles seen below.

Observing creatures puts me in a better frame of mind. However, Central Park was far from relaxing on that day. This is because there were a number of barricades and detours, due to an event that was set to occur in the coming days; however the turtles did not concern themselves with the chaos, their wisdom was not lost on me.

Clarifying a Quote Attributed to Sylvia Plath (Wednesday's Wisdom)

I'm using this episode of Wednesday's Wisdom as an opportunity to clarify the quotation which can be seen in the text based image posted above. Evidently the quote is associated with Sylvia Plath, a poet that I've written about in here on Blogger. If you'd like tp reference my posts about her, please click here and if you'd like to read what The Poetry Foundation has written about her, please click here.

As for the quote-based image, I first saw it on someone's Facebook Page. There was no commentary, only this image. Since I'm often plagued with self doubt, I was drawn to the quotation, but something about it didn't ring true in my perception of Sylvia Plath; so I turned to Goodreads and learned that this is not the full quote, which evidently is this:

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." 

According to Goodreads, the full quotation is from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. She died from suicide on February 11, 1963.

A Gray Catbird is on "the pink carpet!" Tuesday's Truths for Week Eighty-Six

As I stated in this past Sunday's post, I  recently encountered a Great Egret for the first time in my long life. This brought the number of new birds I've seen in this Year of the Bird up to ten. 

The other first time meeting of avian creatures that I've seen during this Year of the Bird, include (in alphabetical order) an American Coot, a Bufflehead Duck, a Great Blue Heron, a Northern Pintail, a Red-Bellied Woodpecker, a Red-Tailed Hawk, a Red-Winged Black Bird, a Ruddy Duck, and a couple of Wooden Ducks. 

And, now I've met my eleventh bird, who happens to be a Gray Catbird. My encounter with this bird type actually occurred shortly after I saw my first Great Egret, a little over three weeks ago, when I was in Central Park, This creature can be seen in the image atop this entry, he/she seems to be watching me as I watch him/her.