It’s been cold, and windy, and snowy, and rainy. The snow in the yard is covered in ice. My phone reminded me that two years ago I had some greenery poking its way out of the earth. I want Spring!

It’s been cold, and windy, and snowy, and rainy. The snow in the yard is covered in ice. My phone reminded me that two years ago I had some greenery poking its way out of the earth. I want Spring!


I can’t be at Disneyworld but I can have a Mickey Ice Cream Bar!
Cats and Dogs living together…

A bike from the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Today’s photo is of a cake I baked for a family party this weekend. Because it’s so very cold and snowy here right now I decided to add a little bit of springtime to the cake by using greens in the decorations.

I’m a little late today, the moon tonight.

Today’s Monday Photo is also a past photo, a snowy photo from a past snowy day.

I’ll be posting a photo every Monday in 2019. Today is the first. It may be a new photo or one I’ve taken before. Today is a rainy, gray, cold,


Early on a beautiful Sunday morning 77 years ago, the world changed.
At 7:55 a.m local. December 7, 1941 the attack begins.

Pearl Harbor Attack
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor to remove what it saw as a threat to the empire’s southern expansion. The Pearl Harbor attack hurt us badly, but it also hardened our resolve and brought us fully into WWII.
Snopes has some photos that were purported to be found in an old Brownie camera years after the attack. The story was untrue, but the photos are archival and genuine.
The U.S. Navy has a Pearl Harbor site with more photos.
Chris at A Large Regular has linked to this National Geographic Pearl Harbor site in the past. It has a multimedia timeline, survivor stories, kid’s section, and more.