Brilliant Autumn Scenes Slideshow

View this HD slideshow highlighting some of my favorite autumn scenes You can stop on a slide by tapping your screen on the slide or moving your cursor onto the slide. A second tap away from the slide or moving your cursor away from the slide will continue the slideshow. Enjoy!     Etc. If […]

Colossal Colors Gallery – My Photo Galleries Tour Series

My Photo Galleries! Let’s Take a Tour. It’s been quite a while since I posted anything about the 11 photo galleries that reside on this blog. So, I decided to start a tour series to highlight each gallery over the next several weeks. This is the third post in the series. The first one was Exquisite Bird […]

Exquisite Beauty Underwater Gallery – My Photo Galleries Tour Series

My Photo Galleries! Let’s Take a Tour.Exquisite Beauty Underwater is next! It’s been quite a while since I posted anything about the 11 photo galleries that reside on this blog. So, I decided to start a tour series to highlight each gallery over the next several weeks. This is the second post in the series. The […]

Exquisite Bird Photos Gallery – My Photo Galleries Tour Series

My Photo Galleries! Let’s Take a Tour.Let’s start with Exquisite Bird Photos Gallery since it’s my most visited one. It’s been quite a while since I posted anything about the 11 photo galleries that reside on this blog. So, I decided to start a tour series to highlight each gallery over the next several weeks. After all, […]

Valentine’s Day – What you Probably Don’t Want to Know About It

History.com has posted both a video and a written history of Valentine’s Day. Both of these acknowledge the difficulty in establishing any certainty about what is termed the legend(s) of St. Valentine. In any event, I think I “learned” more about Valentine’s Day than I really wanted to know. My wife, Lynn, and I enjoy […]

The Jive Aces present: Bring Me Sunshine

  I just found this cute and lively video that captures the theme of my website – no more bad news here – only “good news tastefully presented”. Enjoy the next few minutes and then take a look over the past several posts and see if you can see the contrast between the evening TV […]

My Beautiful Butterfly Photo Gallery – Check It Out

Butterflies in Gorgeous HD – This Blog’s Eye Candy Here are a few samples from the full gallery of 80 high quality HD images. The gallery features a large size slide show. A single right click of any image will display a menu with a variety of copy, save and other options. Enjoy!   Click The link […]

Spectacular Birds-of-Paradise HD Videos – You Can’t Stop Watching!

The source is Cornell University’s Ornithology Lab in upstate New York, USA about a three hour drive from my summer home.

Take a look at their introduction to a project of study of the New Guinea Birds of Paradise.

Flowers of Israel Slideshow – Memories From Our Holy Land Tour

The Lebanon/Israel border is easy for a tourist to spot: Israel is green and Lebanon is brown! Israel is a land of green fields of flowers and vegetables all grown with a scarcity of water. In addition to food production, Israel has literally blossomed with flowers, flowering shrubs and vines and all kinds of beautiful […]

Underwater with Manu San Felix: Revealing the Sea’s Treasures – Nat Geo

                      “I have the feeling that what I am doing with my camera underwater is affecting               what we are doing to protect the oceans…and that is an incredible feeling!”                      […]

The Honeymooners – Classic TV

 IntroThe Honeymooners is surely classic TV. TV is such a vast subject to ponder that I want to focus on one piece – “Classic TV” – the hits of the past and what made them great in a series over the coming months. There are plenty of shows that could appear on a classics list but […]

Big Birds Video of VERY Big Birds

Very Big Birds of the World Top Ten Big Birds Living in the World is a fun and fascinating video. I probably would have guessed only 3 or 4 of them. See how many you can guess before you start the video. My grown children call me a compulsive birdwatcher but I’m no such thing! […]

Facebook Admits to Blocking Pro-Life Ads – Should This be Allowed?

Electronic Censorship I have been reading and hearing a lot about censorship by big tech companies like Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter and media companies using their market power to influence public opinion in obviously biased directions in the name of presenting “news”. Have you? Depending on who you listen to, there may or may not […]

Halloween Wrap Up

Intro Well, we have looked at the “facts” of the history of Halloween and made some “objective” comments on the history. All that remains is to say “So what. What does it mean for me?” It means different things for different people, of course, so I will be answering the question for myself.   Commercialization […]

“Pipe Dream” by Animusic – How Do They Do That?

Here is a second selection of animated music by Animusic. The first one I posted, Acoustic Curves, drew a very favorable response. As I looked into it, I found that the producer has a unique approach to syncing the music to the animation —actually they do the reverse, they sync the animation to the music. […]

International Snow Sculpture Championships at Breckenridge, Colorado

Breckenridge Snow Sculpture Competition HistoryIn the 1970s a couple of Realtors started organizing town folk to make sculpture out of one of Breckenridge’s most readily available resources – snow.  If you’ve followed the Breckenridge competition over the past 20-some years, you’ve probably heard of Carvin’ Marvin and the Snowflakes – Breckenridge Associates’ own Rob Neyland […]

Halloween Wrap Up

Intro Well, we have looked at the “facts” of the history of Halloween and made some “objective” comments on the history. All that remains is to say “So what. What does it mean for me?” It means different things for different people, of course, so I will be answering the question for myself.   Commercialization […]

Halloween – Part 2 -Comments on History

Intro As a writer looks over historical facts or what the historical writers believed to be facts, it is hard to be fully objective . Part of me wants to make purely “academic” observations and part of me wants to try to interpret what I have read through the lens of my experience and my […]

Who Invented Halloween? Part 1- The History

The History of Halloween I have had mixed feelings about blogging about Halloween. In one sense, Halloween in the U. S. today is simply a commercialized holiday pretty devoid of the traditions, both pagan and Christian, that were at its origin many centuries ago in Europe.  As such, the interest in blogging about it might […]

An Autumn Image to Brighten Your Day October 8

I said a few days ago that in autumn images the reds were my favorite leaf color, and they are. BUT, if anything could change my mind, this photo of oranges would be the one – at least that’s what I think after scanning a few hundred autumn images to find the ones in this […]

The Nicholas Brothers – “The greatest dance number ever filmed.” – Fred Astaire

Silent Monks Singing Hallelujah for Christmas

  This Silent Monks performance of the Hallelujah Chorus was originally presented in 2008 by the  South Kitsap High School Vocal Music Christmas Concert – The Silent Monks – G.F. Handel, Hallelujah Chorus – Port Orchard, WA. The video has over 19 million YouTube views! The concept has been duplicated by other groups since that […]

Nightly News According to Kids – a VERY FUNNY YouTube Video

Nightly News According to Kids Apparently, these two charming kids, excuse me, Nightly News reporters have a tech savvy uncle who filmed and edited this unprompted and unscripted (how many 3-4 year olds can read???) newscast. I found this video on GodVine.com but it originated on YouTube. GodVine has a variety of videos covering a […]

Planetary Panoramas – 360 Degree Night-Sky Time-Lapse Video

  Intro I found a fascinating time-lapse video recently which I will show you in a minute. The video and the time-lapse photography are the products of Vincent Brady, a young man who studied photography in college and then innovated the equipment to produce the spectacular effects you will see. Vincent also has a friend, […]