In 2007

I've decided I have to raise my level of importance in the world in 2007. I've noted that the really important people of this earth have one word names:

Gandhi
Cher
Bono
Jewel
Pele
Beyonce
Sting

So, it's time I have one. My top ten choices:

Glide
Boogity
Sizzle
Trace
Foment
Pliny
Turd
Smote
Bub
Highway

Heading East to Glenville

White House in Season

At the White House Gate

Window Cleaning on Pennsylvania Avenue

Movin' Out

Buona Salute

My good friend, Tim, swears by this Cioppino recipe:

Cioppino
(San Francisco Style Seafood Stew)

2 tsp. oil
½ cup chopped onion
2-3 cloves garlic, minced
1 sweet red or green pepper, chopped
¼ cup chopped parsley
16 oz. can tomatoes, boken up
½ cup reds wine
1 cup clam juice, fish stock, or chicken broth
1 cup water
¼ tsp. basil
¼ tsp. oregano
1/8-1/4 tsp. black pepper
2 doz. clams or mussels
1 lb. firm fish, cut in bite size chunks (monkfish, swordfish, or gouper)
1 lobster, cut in 8 pieces (optional)

Saute onion, garlic and pepper in oil. Add remaining ingredients except seafood. Simmer 45 minutes. Add seafood and continue cooking until clams or mussels open.

Serves 4

Sunset Last Sunday

Bethesda, Maryland

The Bethesda Metro Center

Bethesda takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church which was build in 1820 and which took its name from the Aramaic words "Beth Hesda," meaning "house of mercy."

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Some of the people who live there:

Maury Povich and Connie Chung, TV Personalties

John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

Thomas Friedman, NY Times Columnist

John Roberts, Chief Justice, Supreme Court

William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist

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I live and work in the Bethesda area, but I've never seen any of these people. I once thought I saw Wolf Blitzer on the bike path, but it turned out to be Arnold Stillman, a car salesman.

A Friendly Face

Old Time Candy

Winter Morning

Search Engine Plus

Use your search engine in other ways:

As a dictionary: Just type “define:” and then the word to get a definition.

As a calculator: Enter the expression you want solved in the search window, then hit return.

As a computer problem solver: If you’re getting a error message on your computer that you don’t understand, type it into the search engine and chances are you’ll find others with the same problem.

My Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather

Turkey Day

Early Radio, Hanover, PA

WHVR

Broadcasting in the late 1940s from the Trust Building on Center Square in Hanover, Pennsylvania, WHVR's first announcers were Mack Edwards, Ed John, Ned Rutledge, and Chuck Zink.

Mack Edwards and Chuck Zink went on to jobs in television -- Edwards in Baltimore and Zink in Miami. Besides his announcing duties, Ed John (‘the fella with the two first names”) also owned a pet shop in Hanover. Ned Rutledge stayed with WHVR for over 50 years.

I listened religiously to Chuck Zinc who had an evening show called Pot Luck With Chuck. He played the songs of the day and had some running patter with a little dummy whose name escapes me. I could never understand the concept of a dummy on the radio. I remember Zinc heading a March of Dimes drive for polio. People would call in and pledge money to the drive and a member of the Happy Ramblers Motorcycle Club would pick it up.

On Saturday mornings, WHVR broadcast from the Victory restaurant on Broadway, sponsored by Utz Potato Chips. Edwards and later Rutledge would interview patrons and always make a big to do over someone celebrating a birthday.

On Saturday evening at 7:00, the Reverend Ralph Rudisill presided during a remote broadcast from The Gospel Tabernacle, a local church in Hanover. Rudisill was "fire and brimstone" kind of a pastor with a Pennsylvania Dutch accent who whipped his flock into a frenzy - “Come down through the roof, Lord," he shouted, "we’ll pay for the shingles!!” Wish I had a recording of one of those broadcasts; they were unbelieveable.

Country music in the morning: Hank Snow, Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, Lefty Frisell.

In the late afternoon, I came home from school and listened to Sky King and the Green Hornet on a Mutual Broadcasting System feed.

And on Sunday evening, the family would listen to Jack Benny, Amos and Andy, and Phil Harris on the old FADA radio in the living room.

Wonderful memories of a unique time in broadcasting!

Moon Over the Longarm

Nancy

Hangin' On

The leaves of the Ginkgo remain on the tree until late in the season and then can all fall rapidly in a single or a few days and even in 1 or 2 hours!

Autumn in the Wahington D.C. Area

The Biggest Billygoat Gruff

Victory from the Jaws of Defeat

Redskins 22 - Cowboys 19

Less then twenty seconds left in the game...the Cowboys line up for an easy game-winning field goal...I turn to my friend and say 'that's the game'....but NO...the Redskins block the field goal and return the ball into Cowboys territory where the Skins set up for a field goal and, miracle of miracles, they MAKE it! The game changes on a dime and emotions change on a dime too which made the victory seem more intense and much more satisfying.

Renfrew Park

The farmhouse and barn in Renfrew Park, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

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Formerly the property of a Pennsylvania German tanner, the once self-sustaining farmstead now is 107 acres of parkland with fifty acres designated as a wilderness/wildlife preserve.

Partial Limericks

…To do what, and with which, and to whom.

…And lightening shot out of his ass!

…And finished her off in mid-air.

…T'was Roger the Lodger by god!

…But his balls hung out and he lost 'em.

…and her tits on a hill in Brazil!

Pole Steeple

Pole Steeple Cliffs sit 526 feet above some picturesque lakes near the mid-point of the Appalachian Trail in Pine Grove Furnace State Park, PA. The rugged quartzite cliffs are estimated to be at least 300 million years old.

boo

Proof Positive There Is a God

Sure, the earth, the stars, the infinite universe, hardshelled crabs, popcorn, but Lordy, Lordy, this is what I'm talkin' about...

Nikes on a Wire

Why You Should Never Kiss Your Cat on the Lips

Mark Twain

~ "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

~ "Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

~ "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

~ "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

~ "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

~ "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

~ "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."

~ "I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough."

~ "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

~ "Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."

Bethesda Row Arts Festival

Your Civic Duty

Friends

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years trying to get other people interested in you."

~ Dale Carnegie


"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends"

~ Japanese Proverb


"It's the friends that call you up at 4:00 a.m. that matter."

~ Marlene Dietrich

Boathouse, Key Bridge, Georgetown

Fall

Despite its signal that winter is soon to come, the fall foliage is always a treat for the eyes.

As autumn approaches, the amount of available sunlight decreases. This signals the tree that winter is approaching and that it is time to begin the process of shedding its leaves. As a result, the production of chlorophyll ceases and breaks down. Because of this, the green color of the leaf disappears allowing the other pigments to show off their hues.

A maple leaf loses its chlorophyll and other pigments become visible.

Blue in Brick

MO

Some town names in Missouri:

Neck
Torch
Climax Springs
Conception Junction
Joy
Romance
Useful
Peculiar
Ink
Lupus
Chloride
Cooter
Advance
Half Way
Fairplay
Pumpkin Center
Nonesuch
and
Gerald

The C&O Canal at Great Falls

The Mormon Temple

The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints

Kensington, Maryland

Photo Exhibit

Jim Brandenburg Prairie Photo Exhibit

The Great Eraser

U.S. Capitol

Sunset, Last Night

The Battle of Antietam

The bloodiest single day battle in American history.

Antietam resulted in nine times as many Americans killed or wounded (23,000 soldiers) than on June 6, 1944--D-day, the so-called "longest day" of World War II. More soldiers were killed and wounded at the Battle of Antietam than the deaths of all Americans in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Spanish-American War combined.

The Bloody Lane of the Sunken Road (between the two parallel "snake" fences) as seen from the Observation Tower. Nearly four hours of fighting between the armies resulted in over 5,000 casualties.

Politics 101

Personally, I never care for fiction or storybooks. What I like to read about are facts and statistics of any kind....facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful...Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

~Mark Twain

The Return of Frisbee the Cat

A House Within A House

When the owners of as 1930s wooden cottage in Frankfurt, Germany wanted to replace their home with a larger one, the German firm of Meixner Schluter Wendt Architects suggested instead building a new house around the original.

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