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Sunday, September 16, 2012

SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY 2: Anything goes in New York's Union Square Park....


This actor group is posing for a photographer who, when asked, said they were planning an entry for the Reality Show!  The shadowy location added to the scene...
                         



Wednesday, September 12, 2012

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY: A SIDE WALK DELIGHT....





THIS WAS A ONE-OF-KIND FIND, YESTERDAY,  IN ONE OF THE MANY SIDE WALK GARDENS CULTIVATED BY NYC RESIDENTS WHO ARE LUCKY TO HAVE TREES ON THEIR STREETS.    









Saturday, September 8, 2012

Thursday, September 6, 2012

SKY WATCH FRIDAY: HOORAY AND UP SHE RISES...

WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE DRUNKEN SAILOR?



EARLYE IN THE MORNING - 6.29 am 6.9.12



(ONLY THIS SAILOR WAS NOT DRUNKEN - JUST TIRED!)







Monday, September 3, 2012

"ONCE UPON A TIME....." A WW2 Memory:






      "We are at war...."  Remembering September 3, 1939, the day war broke out announced over the radio by King George V1:  I was 7 at the time, living in Wallington, Surrey, a quiet suburban neighborhood, an hour's train ride to London.  We were gathered around the radio listening to the King's sobering call to citizens of Britain and the Commonwealth in the fight for "... justice and peace against bondage and fear", that Hitler was already fermenting.   In 1941 gas masks were issued in the belief that poisoned bombs would be dropped.  We were trained in school in their use and, while wearing them, a children's story was begun, "Once upon a time...."
Thanks to the *BBC archives* this memorable clip reflects, with gentle calm, the process of preparing for such an horrendous event.    


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