Bridges

Barns

Ice on the Canal

Hive on Ice

Ride 'em

Snow Tonight

Hardware Butterfly

Sky 2014

                    

I'm the One

                            

Ornaments

                     

                                           

Presidential Pets. (Coolidge)

Calvin and Grace Coolidge literally had a zoo at the White House. Most famous and beloved was the white collie Rob Roy, purchased from Thomas and Olive shover, who owned Shomont White Collies. They also entertained and cared for:

• Peter Pan, terrier
• Paul Pry, an Airedale terrier that was originally named Laddie Buck
• Rob Roy, white collie, originally named Oshkosh
• Prudence Prim, another white collie
• Also popular was Calamity Jane, a Shetland sheepdog
• Tiny Tim, chow
• Blackberry, also a chow
• Ruby Rouch, brown collie
• Bessie, collie
• Boston Beans, bulldog
• King Kole, German shepherd
• Bessie, collie
• Palo Alto, bird dog
• Nip and Tuck, canaries
• Snowflake, also a white canary
• Old Bill, a thrush
• Enoch, goose
• Mockingbird belonging to Grace Coolidge
• Tiger, cat
• Blacky, another cat
• Rebecca and Horace, raccoons
• Ebenezer, donkey
• Smoky, bobcat
• Finally, given to them by dignitaries from other countries, there were also lion cubs (humorously named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau), a wallaby, a pygmy hippo named Billy, and a black bear!

Merry Christmas

December Sky

That's What It's All About

  

                                          

Lights at Grant & George

Nanny's Cyclamen

Life

     

                                             

my friends, the dogs

Babe Ruth

  St. Mary's was an unusual institution - part orphanage, part reform school, part private academy. The school was run by the Xaverian brothers, a Roman Catholic order whose members embraced piety and celibacy but not full priesthood, and the conditions were rigorously monastic.

 All the students had a history of behavioral problems, but the brothers attributed that to inadequacies of upbringing rather than any deficiency of character - a  decidedly enlightened view for the time. They believed that any boy treated with decency, encouragement and respect would grow into a model citizen, and they were nearly always right. Ninety-five percent of the Xaverian  boys went on to live normal, stable lives.

~ Bill Bryson, describing the institution where Babe Ruth spent part of his childhood

More foliage

Gee

Boulder Bridge, Rock Creek Park

Along Mountain Road, Northern Virgina

Halloween dress-up

Leaves - intro to fall

Pumpkin Time

flower within flower

Street Art

Actual Complaints to Thomas Cook Travel Agency

“It’s lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallarta to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during ‘siesta’ time — this should be banned.”

“The beach was too sandy. We had to clean everything when we returned to our room.”

“We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish.”

 

“They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax.”

“I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes.”

“My fiance and I requested twin-beds when we booked, but instead we were placed in a room with a king bed. We now hold you responsible and want to be re-reimbursed for the fact that I became pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked.”

kickboxing

At Hollabaugh Brothers...

Meditation

reds & grays