A poem for Spring; a poem for the end of the terrible weather...

Everything Is Going to Be All Right

How should I not be glad to contemplate

the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window

and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?

There will be dying, there will be dying,

but there is no need to go into that.

The poems flow from the hand unbidden

and the hidden source is the watchful heart.

The sun rises in spite of everything

and the far cities are beautiful and bright.

I lie here in a riot of sunlight

watching the day break and the clouds flying.

Everything is going to be all right.

~ Derek Mahon ~

(Collected Poems)

Web version: www.panhala.net/Archive/Everything_Is_Going_to_Be_All_Right.html

Wordless Wednesday

My photo of a photo of Grand Central Station, 1941

Ruby Tuesday

Our Ruby Tuesday photos this week are from City Island in the Bronx, NY

A RED clapboard house that sells hot dogs, pretzels and ices.

A RED door on the back of a rectory (priests' house attached to a parish). I don't kow what "ELENA" means.

Join us in posting for Ruby Tuesday. It's fun going around and visiting other players. Please only sign Mr. Linky if you have a post up.

Beautiful Blogger Award

Kathy of Blog Love gave me this wonderful award. Kathy, I really appreciate the award. You are a sweetheart!

The rules:

I am supposed to tell you 7 things about myself and then pass it on to 15 other Beautiful Bloggers.

1. I am a bleeding-heart liberal

2. I am aunt to a beautiful niece and 3 fantastic nephews

3. I am great-aunt to a 4 year old cutie-pie named Jarome

4. I'm a college adjunct professor

5. I'd like to call myself a photographer

6. I love blogging

7. I write poetry on occasion

And now I want to award a few people:

• Christine of Christine Cooks
  
• Judi of Judi's Mind of Matter
• Sherrie of A View of My Life
  
• Desert Songbird of The Ice Box
• Rita of Cash Jockey and the Old Salt
  

All of these bloggers have given me so much pleasure in the blogosphere. I thank them for that.

Thanks again, my dear friend Kathy!

Twilight: New Moon

I watched the second movie in the Twilight saga, "New Moon" last night. Netflix said I had a "very long wait" and then it appeared in my mail box yesterday.

The photo above is a new photo out for the "New Moon" picture. Need I say more?

Sheesh, that's sexy!!

Take This Tune

The challenge today from Jamie at Duward Discussion involves Mark Knopfler, a guitarist I've never heard of, but who impressed me greatly, in duet with Emmylou Harris, from their album, Real Live Roadrunning.

I found Knopfler and Eric Clpton in concert with Elton John doing "I don't Wanna Go On With You Like That." Incredible rock! They were performing for the Prince's Trust in 1988.

Whaddya think, Jamie?

Lyrics

I've always said that one's enough to love
Now I hear you're bragging one is not enough
Something tells me you're not satisfied
You got plans to make me one of four or five

I guess this kind of thing's just in your blood
But you won't catch me carving up my love
I ain't no puzzle piece that needs to fit
If it takes more than me let's call it quits

`Cause I don't wanna go on with you like that
Don't wanna be a feather in your cap
I just wanna tell you honey I ain't mad
But I don't wanna go on with you like that

It gets so hard sometimes to understand
This vicious circle's getting out of hand
Don't need an extra eye to see
That the fire spreads faster in a breeze
[ Lyrics provided by www.mp3lyrics.org ]

And I don't wanna go on with you like that
Don't wanna be a feather in your cap
I just wanna tell you honey I ain't mad
But I don't wanna go on with you like that
No I don't wanna go on with you like that
One more set of boots on your welcome mat
You'll just have to quit them if you want me back
`Cause I don't wanna go on with you like that

Oh if you wanna spread it around sister that's just fine
But I don't want no second hand feeding me lines
If you wanna hold someone in the middle of the night
Call out the guards, turn out the light

Shadow Shot Sunday

Tracy of Hey Harriet is the host of Shadow Shot Sunday. Tracy has been offline for a while. I hope she gets back online soon. Good luck, Tracy!

Maxine on Saturday

Maxine's Will

I, MAXINE , being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means. Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of pinhead politicians who couldn’t pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it, or lawyers / doctors interested in simply running up the bills. If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to ask for at least one of the following:

Glass of wine or a Bloody Mary
chocolate
Margarita
chocolate
Martini
Cold Beer
chocolate
Chicken fried steak
cream gravy
chocolate
Mexican food
chocolate
French fries
chocolate
Pizza
chocolate
ice cream
cup of tea
chocolate
Chocolate
Sex
Chocolate...

PULL THE PLUG!




Come join us for MAXINE ON SATURDAY! Sign Mr. Linky and leave a comment.

5 on Friday

I've been taken by Alice in Wonderland: the latest Alice starring Clare Danes and Johnny Depp. Here's the link for the soundtrack from the Tim Burton Alice.

Looking at the Sky on Friday

A dramatic sky late in late afternoon.

Tisha of Crazy Working Mom is the host of LATSOF. Go over and visit.

Yard Art on Thursday

Jeanie lives down the block from me and recently put these adorable raccoons in her yard. When I was photographing them she came out and we started up a conversation. I now have a new friend and a new source of Yard Art... :)

Yikes I forgot Mr. Linky. Oh well, next week...

Wordless Wednesday

"What the...?"

Hershey’s Better Basket Blog Hop

Thom tagged me with the Hershey’s Better Basket Blog Hop. Thanks so much, Thom!

HERSHEY’S BETTER BASKET BLOG HOP RULES

* Copy and paste these rules to your blog post.
* Create a blog post giving a virtual Easter Basket to another blogger – you can give as many Virtual Baskets as you want.
* Link back to person who gave you an Easter Basket.
* Let each person you are giving a Virtual Easter Basket know you have given them a Basket.
* Leave your link at BetterBasket.info/BlogHop comment section. You can also find the official rules of this Better Basket Blog Hop, and more information about Better Basket with Hershey’s there.
* Hershey’s is donating $10 per each blog participating to the Better Basket Blog Hop to Children’s Miracle Network (up to total of $5,000 by blog posts written by April 4th, 2010).
* Please note that only one blog post by each blog url will count towards the donation.

I am tagging the following:

Kathy @ This Crazy Adventure I Call Life

Travis @ Trav's Thoughts

Jamie @ Duward Discussion

Ruby Tuesday

For today's Ruby Tuesday we have a photo that announces Spring! My little ornamental pear tree is about to burst forth.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow
to keep an appointment with a beech-tree,
or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
~ Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

'nuf said.

You know what to do!

House passes health care reform

The House just passed the health reform bill with a vote of 219-212. 

Click here to find out how your Representative voted.

For the first time in history, a comprehensive health care bill has passed both Houses of Congress. The bill will give health care to 32 million Americans and save over 30,000 lives per year. And it will regulate the insurance companies so they can no longer deny care for pre-existing conditions, charge you more if you're sick, put limits on your benefits, or increase rates with impunity.

Also for the first time, Members of Congress will have the choice of the same health care plans as millions of Americans.

Take This Tune - Elvis

Jamie posted a wonderful post for Take This Tune this week.  Go to her blog and find Alanna Myles singing "Black Velvet," a song about the phenomenon of Elvis Presley. 

Elvis defined my childhood and his comeback performance in 1968, dressed in black leather, was, in my opinion, the most incredible performance of his short life. Below he sings "Are You Lonesome Tonight:"

Lyrics:

Are you lonesome tonight,
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray to a brighter sunny day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?

I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
You know someone said that the worlds a stage
And each must play a part.
Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart.
Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance
You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange
And why I'll never know.
Honey, you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you.
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than go on living without you.
Now the stage is bare and Im standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you wont come back to me
Then make them bring the curtain down.

Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?

Shadow Shot Sunday

Go on over to Hey Harriet for other Shadow Shots on this Spring Sunday!

Here's my young pear tree ready to burst into bloom on this lovely Spring day! 

Maxine on Saturday

Maxine has something to say about Easter this week...

c john wagner
Hallmark, Inc.

I looked for a Passover Maxine but had no success...

But here's a Passover cartoon I found that I just had to post:



Ha!