songbird's crazy world

I posted earlier about our visit to Long Island’s North Fork, and the sunclock at  Orient Beach State Park . Stand on the tile corresponding to the current month, and your shadow will point to the correct time.

  Blueberry Hill Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love to  answer the questions, however, and here is today's questions! Saturday 9: Blueberry Hill (1956) Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it  here . This month Saturday 9 will be tasty, featuring songs with food in the title. 1) Fats Domino sings about a hill named for blueberries. According to the Old Farmers Almanac, blueberries can grow just about anywhere in North America, as long as they have plenty of direct sunlight. Do you have a garden?  I have a backyard,  buy it’s just grass and weeds. 2) Blueberries are low in calories and rich in fi...

 It’s too darn hot, Shadow says. But Duchess somehow stays cool.

 Connecticut River view. From last week’s trip.

I took a screen shot of the Ducks’ social media Tuesday night: It’s the night where  Hatikvah  is sung before the national anthem.   The team wears special jerseys, which are later auctioned off.  It’s also fireworks night, which means a show after the game, but also red rockets during the national anthem, a small display during the 7th inning stretch, and a brief burst every time a player from the home team hits a home run (we saw that more than once!) It was a really important game for the Ducks.  The start of a six game home stand against York Revolution. The Ducks started the night in 2nd place, 4.5 games behind York. And if you recall what I said in June about the  cretins from York , I bought a special shirt to wear to the game. The Hebrew reads “V’ahavta l’reiacha kamocha”.  Leviticus 19:18. Quoted in Mark 12:31. You’ll find similar thoughts in the Quran, in Buddhist and Hindu teachings… No one really mentioned the shirt, but I felt good wearing...

 Solar eclipse this afternoon — here in NY we’ll have a mere 10% totality, hardly noticeable.  Total eclipse will be over Iceland.   And the Perseus meteor shower peaks tonight. On a new moon, so no light interference.