Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

I love a mixed up weed, and here's a beauty!  Who knows what it is? Comments are working again; blogger is working again!

What if there was one sunset left? I know, it’s a cliché of a question, but What it there was one sunset left? Would I have the courage to see the beauty, To watch the final sun move inch by relentless inch, Darkening, sinking, disappearing into an immovable horizon? Could I bear to love that simple act of kindness, That I’d seen ten thousand times before? What if I knew for certain?

Of the many known genera of the North American Slinky, one of the rarest is  the Tree Bed Watering Slinky shown below at work on East 94th Street..

A careful grant-supported study of local joggers by a well respected New York Anthro-photographer has at last  documented the ritual courtship and mating dance of the New York jogger.  Astonishingly, the investigator has captured and photographed the early  phases of this ritual. Ritual Phase I   Ritual Phase II

All Me: The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert a  ducatmedia.com documentary film by Vivian Ducat We'll keep you informed about this new documentary on the incredible artist Winfred Rembert Winfred Rembert, June 23, 2011. ©Linda Jo Calloway Inside Cat Odom's Cafe, 2005:  Dye on carved and tooled leather. Image from Adelson Galleries, 7 April - 30 June, 2010 Chain Gang - The Ditch:   Winfred Rembert 2005. Dye on carved and tooled leather. Image from Adelson Galleries , 7 April - 30 June, 2010 Payoff Time:  Winfred Rembert 2007.  Dye on carved and tooled leather. Image from Adelson Galleries   7 April - 30 June, 2010

The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Nicholas, at 15 East 97th Street

Maia's flower and fan shop, 1143 Park Avenue

Unleashing hidden joys Clouds with curled edges, Blimps, balloons, hawkers, soda cans and Ice. Swinging, searching, back and forth. Nothing celestial at all.  

Have you ever found yourself  up against a Brick Wall?  Have you run into a Brick Wall lately? Well, try to sit back, relax and enjoy the view!

This incredible photo captures our Magic Tree in the actual act of generating magic!!  Look how she shimmers; look how she appears to float above the bridle path!  Look how she showers magical power unbound by earthly space and time.  Watch carefully in the next few days for magic in your life and those around you.

Church of the Heavenly Rest Reflected in puddle across from Fifth Avenue & 90th

Why can’t I move in a new direction? What agonizing hatreds hold me back?  What whirring mental drill pins me into yesterday? Stealing time, I gather up those dead sheaves of might-have-beens. It’s not too late to burn those tired yesterdays.  Throw out the broken novel, and the tired loves, Cast off the scuffed up ribbons in your mind, Slink away from sad, horrific possibilities.  Worm back into the lattice work of life; Lose track of the exit signs! The world is new with a limitless sky. It’s time for a piece of a different pie.   N is for New

In this bustling city it is tricky to find a nice place to wait before crossing the sidewalk.  Here, a set of yellows rest quietly under a guard of iron arches.

Happy Flower in search of a bee sneaks through the confining fence. Happy Flower

Summer Victorian Wallpaper growinig near the Engineer's Gate into Central Park

So the grass is greener, who cares anyway? I wanted a taste of the new mown hay. I wanted that yellow green  straw as well With a horse and a loft, a particular smell. When summer rolls in with its rutting bouquet I remember the boy and his quiet way.

Help, help!!  I'm falling!  I'm Falling!  I'm falling into a Whirling Vortex!  Tended plants are on all sides!!  There is no gum on the sidewalk!  I cannot get a

Sometimes it's best to stay close to home... 95th between 5th and Madison

Wouldn't you know it?  Now, everybody wants to learn!!