Sedge

Another entry in my summer weed catalog:
Yellow nut sedge.
Triangular stems, feet in the marsh, nut-like fruit, a weed only when it's out of place, very invasive.

Looking for the message

Cheryl: After you've chosen one or more images to post and you're on the screen "Add an image from your computer", you see that orange box that says "Upload Image"? To the right of that is the statement of how much storage space you have used.

A sight to see

Oh WOW! Here's one show I'd really like to see. Looted treasure returned to Italy and on display in the Colosseum, tables full of ancient Greek, Roman and Etruscan objects.
Looted artifacts
More about the recovery

Blog questions

Whenever I upload a new post on my blog there is a message like this:

"You are currently using (number)MB (number %) of your 1024MB."

The percentage is creeping up. What happens when it reaches 100%? Is there any way to reduce the percentage? If I deleted some posts from my archive would the number go down? Is more than 1024MB allowed?

(I know I've posted this picture before, but I like it so much I thought I'd post it again. She's the goddess Flora from a seaside villa in ancient Stabia)

More old Berkeley Heights photos

Sledding down our driveway

after a blizzard/ice storm

Dick, Bev K, Herbie, Peppy

Off they go ... what a winter that was.

See how the cedars are bent over from the ice.

We had to cut them down.

1068 Mountain Ave., Berkeley Heights,

Winter of 1947-48 (or following year)

DeeDee Belin and our dog Tippy in the picnic grove about 1953

Nessie

In my search for old photographs I'm coming across old family knickknacks. This is Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, dating from sometime in the 1930s or perhaps earlier. On the reverse is stamped Thune 830S. Thune was/is a Norwegian silver company and I found the 830S explained on the site modernsilver.com:

Most European countries up until 1920s used 830s. Scandinavian countries used 830s silver like Denmark moved to using 925 silver in 1927 however even though a higher grade of silver was used by most jewellers in Scandinavia, they stuck to stamping there [sic] jewellery 830s as they did not have to pay a tariff to the assaying office for the change over to 925. So most Jewellery made by fine houses in Scandinavia will in fact be marked 830s but will have a standard silver of 925 ....

Goosey solution

I just learned what THEY did to the Canada Geese in Prospect Park. A pretty drastic solution to the overpopulation problem. Or is it? They are definitely a nuisance around here and in many places. Remember that airplane going into the Hudson in January 2009 ?

What do YOU think should be done to deal with this problem?

I like the idea of Shetland sheep dogs. They are so picturesque dashing over the landscape.

Here's an idea (killing two birds with one stone, so to speak): capture them and process them for their meat which could be frozen and given away at food pantries. Why not?

1950s photos

Biddie, Priscilla

1954 or 1955

1955 or 1956

Dick on the Gravely Tractor
1952

Just started playing with my new scanner.

Click on picture to enlarge.

Some views of Kykuit

Song of the Vowels by Jacques Lipchitz

Misty day, magical Hudson River

Which emperor? Doesn't say

At the Carriage Barn

Front veranda

View from the front door

No, you're not in Europe

View from back veranda

Sculpture everywhere

In May of 2009 I visited Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate on the Hudson River. I never posted any pictures before as I was overwhelmed by the place. The sculpture collection of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller situated as it is in the gracious natural setting was truly amazing.

When nothing's happening

Bring in the dinosaurs