Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

These .two Happy Dogs rekindle their joyous friendship, while their owner- puppeteers pretend to manage the situation

At certain times in a particular light, would-be solid substances begin to dance.   They are creating shadow ripples in the space-time continuum.

 When times get tough, the best thing to do is take out your magnifying glass... Twigs Against Fifth Avenue

Late winter meets early spring in Central Park near 96th Street

What responsibilities fall upon these sturdy limbs Nourishing the fragile, hibernating twigs Buoying up a traveling winter squirrel. Hard trunks: rough, bent, creased and full of rings, with spring hanging in the balance.

Winter Garden: alive with beauty, minted in texture.

It was an odd sort of feeling in the air that day, A crackle and a nip and so-you-say, Then all of a sudden there appeared at my right, A prison-like building, and try as I might,  I could not recall seeing that building before, With its fires and its bars and the black double door. The lights began to flicker on and off—it was a code! I was certain it was beckoning to me, so I slowed-- It was then I heard the creaking and I saw the eye-like brass-- The double door cracked open and revealed a rasping mass— It began to slink and slither out the bottom of the crack; I was pinned to the sidewalk, afraid to turn my back! I covered my eyes, and when I opened them the mass Had disappeared completely and the brass was just brass! The door was closing quickly, but something seemed screwy-- A form was on the landing that was furry, black and mewy. Well I guess you know by now it was a messy little cat, It turned around to look at me and then it just sat! Nevertheless, the other day I went b