Barbara's Log

2009

June 50
May 72
April 20
March 47
January 61

2008

June 20
May 20
April 42
March 68
February
January
George M. Pullman (March 3, 1831 - October 19, 1897) ...
Mar 4th
My new favorite snack — Mandarins.
Mar 4th
(via tatar)
Mar 3rd
Mar 2nd
Mar 2nd
Mar 2nd
Mar 2nd
Mar 2nd

Snow Day!!!

Mar 2nd
“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they...”
— The Kite Runner (via krishanu)
Mar 1st

When a caterpillar sees a butterfly....

(via thebackdoor)
Mar 1st
Warch Watch
Dog Dreams (via theduty) (Click on picture twice to view.)
Mar 1st
Mar 1st
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people...”
— Rita Mae Brown
Mar 1st
Sandro Botticelli (March 1, 1445 - May 17, 1510)
Mar 1st
Wood-sorrel Sleeping
Mar 1st
Wood-sorrel Awake
Feb 28th
Milton Caniff (February 28, 1907 - April 3, 1988)
Feb 28th
Feb 27th
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great...”
— John Steinbeck (February 27,...
Feb 27th
“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love....”
— Victor Hugo (February 26,...
Feb 27th
Feb 27th
Ouch.
Feb 26th
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841 - December 3,...
Feb 26th
Feb 26th
Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 - September 29, 1910)
Feb 25th
Feb 25th
Before … (Yes, that’s you David!  Age 1)
Feb 25th
… and after.
Feb 25th
“Happiness is just excitement that has found a settling down...”
— E.L. Konigsburg (via...
Feb 24th
via dailybunny:
Feb 22nd
Weather Site
Feb 21st
I came across this old photo of Kevin when he was just...
Feb 21st
“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I...”
— Diane Ackerman
Feb 20th
Feb 20th
Feb 20th
Feb 20th
Sweet Dreams …
Feb 18th
touch-me-nots artist Bonnie Bews
Feb 18th
Feb 18th
Ice on the Hudson. Taken from the Amtrak train near...
Feb 18th
Feb 16th
Feb 16th
Warch Watch
The White Stripes  via mansions:
Feb 16th
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
— David Viscott
Feb 15th

Happiness

“If we want to know what happiness is we must seek it, not as if it were a pot of gold at the end of...
Feb 15th
Happy Valentine’s Day. Late Lunch at the Fairway...
Feb 15th
Feb 14th
Look closely.  This is not a photograph — it is a...
Feb 14th
Feb 14th
Feb 14th
As roosters go, Pasta the Rooster was exceptional.  Born in...
Feb 13th
Early 1970’s newspaper clipping of Captain Beefheart...
Feb 13th
via Annie
Feb 13th

Teach.

Feb 13th
Oh, the things kids come up with!
Feb 13th
Sharing my love for chickens with Emily at our indoor...
Feb 13th
Swinging Rory.
Feb 13th
I flap around a lot when I teach.
Feb 13th
What is a worm casting?  Worm poop!  a.k.a. Soil.
Feb 13th
… and feathers can be used for?  Feather dusters!
Feb 13th
Feb 10th
Back in the Spring of 1983, I bravely bought a piece of land...
Feb 10th
Feb 10th
Yahoo Might Buy Tumblr, New York's Cutest...
Feb 9th
via jeremyk My friend’s advice to me —...
Feb 9th
Feb 9th

The Legend of the Moon Festival

Originally named the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Moon Festival is one of the most important holidays...
Feb 9th
I love this room!
Feb 8th
“I decided, very early on, just to accept life...”
— Audrey Hepburn (via...
Feb 8th
Saturday morning’s walk to the Hudson River Pier was...
Feb 8th
Alfred Hitchcock was a stickler for detail in his films, and...
Feb 7th
science: Next stop Jurassic Park? For the first time...
Feb 7th
Feb 5th
Feb 5th

Listen With Your Heart

You are going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right...
Feb 5th
Feb 5th
Feb 5th
In my 1940’s vintage dress
Feb 3rd
DID YOU KNOW the dandelion was named for its leaves?  In...
Feb 1st
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know...
Feb 1st
Feb 1st