This evening I counted 104 lightning-bug flashes in the back yard. There is a quiet joy in standing on the deck in the summer twilight, counting fireflies and contemplating sink holes.
About Me
QUOTE FOR THESE DAYS
John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
This Old House
This old face
This Old Face, Too
Minus a Few Decades ___________________
Interesting Movies Viewed 2012-16
- WINDS ACROSS THE EVERGLADES (1958)***, Christopher Plummer, Burl Ives
- DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990) *****, Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Rodney Grant, Tantoo Cardinal, Wes Studi, Maury Chaykin
- JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961), Spencer Tracy, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland, William Shatner
- TORTILLA FLAT (1942)****, Spencer Tracy, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Hedy Lamarr
- HAMLET (1948)*****, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
- CABIN IN THE SKY (1943)****, Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne
- HOUSE OF STRANGERS (1949)****, Edward G. Robinson, Richard Conte, Susan Hayward
- THE LOST CHILD (2000 Hallmark TV movie)****
- JULIA****, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave
- THE SCAPEGOAT (2012)****
- MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN (1969)***, Ted Eccles
- FIRE IN THE SKY (1993)***
Music Links
- B. Raitt Feels Like Home
- Harris and Duvall remastered
- Vienna Woods waltz
- Red Wing
- Mozart concerto
- Chapman/Pavarotti
- Beethoven Pathetique 2nd M.
- Carter Family/Little Moses
- Holy City/Irish
- How Great Thou Art
- Night on Bald Mountain
- A Musical Joke
- A Musical joke explained
- Amazing Grace
- Are ye right there, Michael?
- Blue Christmas
- Bohemian Girl/Norman
- Christmas In Killarney
- Come Back, Paddy Reilly
- Danny Boy/natural
- Dr. Hook
- Fantasie Impromptu C# minor
- Going Home/Dvorak
- Good King Winceslas
- Green Green Grass of Home
- Just the black notes
- Lord Randall, my son
- Liszt/Brendel
- Little Darlin'
- Little Green Apples
- Only our rivers run free
- P. Dawson "Mandalay"
- Please Come To Boston
- Puff the Magic Dragon pp+m
- The Fields of Athenry
- The Isle of Innisfree
- Waltzing Matilda
Books Read in 2016 - Total of 30 listed
- Best Not Previously Read: Revelation: A Search for Faith in a Violent Religious World, By Dennis Covington*****
My Reading in 2015***** (Total of 7 Listed)
- Best of 2015 Not Previously Read: DEAD WAKE, by Eric Larson***
My Reading In 2014 (Total of 26 listed.)
- Best of 2014 Not Previously Read: Although I gave it only 3 stars, it's the one I want to read again. THE SHINING SHINING PATH, by Carroll Dale Short
My Reading In 2013***** (Total of 20 Listed)
- Best Of 2013 Not Previously Read: OXFORD & BYRON, by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes****
My Reading in 2012***** (Total of 22 listed)
- Best of 2012 (not previously read): Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne*****
My Reading In 2011***** (total of 33 listed)
- Best of 2011, not previously read:
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin*****
My Reading in 2010***** (total of 62 listed)
- Best of 2010 (not previously read):
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee*****
One Of My Favorite Books
The Black Cauldron, by Lloyd Alexander****
One Of My Favorite Flowers
A rose is...
One Of My Favorite Movies
"Misery"
Family Quilts Blog
Bear and Geese
My Art and Photos
Pompeiia
Susan's UFO Bust
UFO Button
More Blogs
NaNoWriMo
Betty Lou novel 2007
Awards
(August, 2007)
All Time Favorite Movies
- A Beautiful Mind 2001
- A Few Good Men 1992
- A Man For All Seasons 1966
- A Room With a View 1986
- Advise and Consent 1962
- All the King's Men 1949
- Amadeus 1984
- Anne of the Thousand Days 1969
- Barbarosa 1982
- Becket 1964
- Beetlejuice 1988
- Buffalo Girls 1995
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969
- Casablanca 1942
- Cleopatra 1963
- Contact 1997
- Dances With Wolves 1990
- Dirty Dancing 1987
- Doctor Zhivago 1965
- Gaslight 1944
- Ghost 1990
- Ghosts Of Mississippi 1996
- Gone With the Wind 1939
- Julia 1977
- Julius Caesar 1953
- King Solomon's Mines 1950
- Legends Of the Fall 1995
- Les Miserables 1998
- Lincoln 2012
- Mercury Rising 1998
- Michael 1996
- Misery 1990
- My Fair Lady 1964
- No Time For Sergeants 1958
- Out Of Africa 1985
- Schindler's List 1993
- Seabiscuit 2003
- Searching For Bobby Fischer 1993
- Sense and Sensibility 1995
- Sergeant York 1941
- Seven Years In Tibet 1997
- Star Wars 1977
- Superman 1978
- Swamp Water 1941
- The Big Country 1958
- The Crucible 1996
- The Dead Zone 1983
- The Education of Little Tree 1997
- The Ghost and the Darkness 1996
- The Godfather 1972
- The Haunting of Hill House
- The Juror 1996
- The Last Emperor 1987
- The Manchurian Candidate 1962
- The Pelican Brief 1993
- The Red House 1947
- The Robe 1953
- The Shadow 1994
- The Shawshank Redemption 1994
- The Sixth Sense 1999
- The Sound of Music 1965
- The Sting 1973
- The Thirteenth Warrior 1999
- The Uninvited 1944
- The Young Lions 1958
- Thunderheart 1992
- Titanic 1997
- To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
- True Grit 1969
Blog Archive
Reading in 2009*****
- Total of 37 listed.
- Best of 2009 (not previously read): Tess of the D'Urbervilles*****, by Thomas Hardy
Reading in 2008 *****
- Total of 45 listed
- Best of 2008 (not previously read): Down the Garden Path, by Beverley Nichols**** Although I rated others higher, this is the one I'm gladdest that I read. I will read it again.
Reading in 2007 *****(Beginning 6/14/07)
- Total of 38 listed.
- Best of 2007 (of books not previously read): The Dollmaker, by Harriette Arnow***** 2008 comment: This book should be known as an American classic. Probably, the depressive nature, the general unhappiness of it, is the reason it is not more popular.
Favorites (subject to change)
- BOOKS: A Tale of Two Cities; The Pathfinder; The Brothers Karamazov; Wuthering Heights; China Court; The Once and Future King; The Education of Little Tree; Kim
- FLOWERS: Roses, Forget-Me-Not, Spirea (Bridal Wreath), Lily of the Valley
- POETS: Robert Browning, G.M. Hopkins, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken
- MOVIES: The Uninvited; Titanic (1997); My Fair Lady; Dr. Zhivago; Julius Caesar (1953); Sense and Sensibility (1995); Misery; Contact (1997), The Dead Zone; The Big Country; The Last Emperor, Legends Of the Fall, The Education of Little Tree
- MUSIC: Mozart, Elvis
- COLORS: Aqua, Violet, Orange
3 comments:
Until I moved to Indiana, I had never seen a firefly. I had always been wanting to see them since I read the Dr. Seuss book Summer. Now, I always look for them. While I don't see them in huge quantities since I moved to an apartment, I still do see some. I think they are the most amazing night lights!
Hope you are doing well.
Hugs and love 💖
Thanks for posting, Deb. I have just about abandoned Facebook, so please keep checking this blog now and then. I love you!
There are times Facebook gives me a headache! Too much politics and drama!
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