Getting Rusty

Rusty? Not me. I have found at time the creative mindset is difficult to keep on track. At times I wish I could do something to jump start my imagination. Some days it's just too easy to be content. A rolling stone, they say, gathers no moss. But sometimes that stone needs a push to get rolling again. This spring has been terrible for me taking time to take pictures. The pollen hit me and held me to a point I was content inside. I think that it has finally passed and maybe I can get off my duff and try to get the creative juices flowing again. It's just not like me to not have a bundle of posey pictures by this time of year. Sunday I got out on a drizzle shortened birdwalk along the Big Spring. Hopefully that's just what I needed to get moving. Let's see where it takes me.

A Fool and His Money...

If you read my comments section you will have seen that my Saturday post had a question about a homemade helicopter. Well, Merisi form Vienna, Austria, this is what a fool looks like in a homemade helicopter. Everyone, please excuse the picture quality, I didn't plan on posting these pictures but sometime they need to be used as evidence. These two buzzed around the township park from an hour or so last Friday. The Shippensburg Airport is actually not that far away, less than a mile, I assume that is where they came from.

11 hundred

Yes, today is post number one thousand one hundred but these thing are just a minor blip on the radar screen this week. Finally got out for a short bird walk this morning. A light misty drizzle kept it short. I did see some of the usual characters. The red winged blackbirds are back, the Canada geese are nesting, the muskrats are fattening up, the cardinals are building nests and the Muscovy ducks are claiming territory. I don't know if there is a flock of them nearby or if this is the same rogue drake I saw further downstream last spring.

Sun Dogs in the Spring

Waiting around for soccer practice to end I found myself looking for something to take pictures of. Anything. There's a para-glider heading like he's gonna pass by the moon. Yeah, my luck he never gets close. How about the idiot in the homemade helicopter. Still too far away. Hey, wait a minute, there's a sun dog! I don't think I've every noticed one except in the winter. Maybe it's still cold enough in the upper stratosphere to have some ice crystals hanging out to reflect the sun. Who cares. Get the camera.

Brooks in York

Brooks Robinson, the Hall of Fame third baseman from the Baltimore Orioles started his professional baseball career in York, Pa. Brooks started playing for the Orioles minor league team, the York White Roses, in 1955. Won the American League MVP in 1966, the All Star Game MVP in 1966, the World Series in 1966 and 1970, was the World Series MVP in 1970, was a 15 time All Star, won 16 consecutive season Gold Gloves, retired in 1977 and was a first ballot Hall of Fame inductee in 1983. What more could you ask for? Brooks, the Human Vacuum Cleaner, was honored when baseball returned to York and they named the entry way at Sovereign Bank Stadium the Brooks Robinson Plaza.

The Horse, the Tree and SkyWatch

Welcome to my SkyWatch. I saw this scene while driving along the foot of the mountain. Of course, I stopped, turned around and drove back for a picture or two. Spring, as you can see, is busting at the seams. This was actually taken about a week and a half ago. Since then some of these trees have reached near full bloom. And, thank God, the pollen count is starting to drop. I honestly don't think I could have taken much more. Now I can go out and take some new pictures besides my required Track and Soccer.

Emil Talamini Real Estate (PG 142)

The latest Painted Gentleman here at the Outskirts of Suburbia comes to us straight out of the Big Apple. Emil Talamini Real Estate at 450 Sixth Avenue, phone number Algonquin 4-1817. This building is near the intersection of the Avenues of the Americas 6 Avenue and West 10th Street. I took this one last February from the driver's seat. (I have since found this one on the Fading Ads website)