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  • December 16, 2023 – Dave and the Brown Creeper that showed up & Me and my abstract art of the lake in the rain!

    December 16, 2023 – Dave and the Brown Creeper that showed up & Me and my abstract art of the lake in the rain!

    Dave Wrote:  Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. We had some snow yesterday and our feeders were very active. We had a Brown Creeper show up at the feeders. Creepers are a small woodland bird. They do not feed on seeds so I guess it was after suet that  I have put out. Here ar some pictures of the Brown Creeper. Dave

    12 16 2023 Dave Cesari
    12 16 2023 Dave Cesari
    12 16 2023 Dave Cesari
    12 16 2023 Dave Cesari

    I WROTE: Today,I was testing various settings with my old Coolpix 510. On the left is a photo (at x42, aperture prioity f5.5, 1/13 sec, iso800) shot across the lake behind my house in the rain downpour. On the right is an abstract photo art I made using the photo on the left. That project was one of my rainy day enjoyments!

    JEB 12 26 2023
    AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – and it rains on your parade – enjoy the change of pace – grab the digital pen or the graphite pen and enjoy an hour
  • December 14, 2023 – I am about done showing you the GAP – But……….

    Islands create social engagement. A.  All whom an Islander meets knows their name. B. God’s landscape and water are shared by all. C. Since there are a limited variety of things to do, Islanders share a lot of experiences. D. God’s weather controls the activities of everyone. Three photos: 1.Together experience making hay for the horses. 2. A borrowed driveway scrapping blade in exchange for doing the scrapper’s owner’s driveway. 3. Bad weather sends every home from the GAP.

    Bad weather setting in Drummond
    Sharing experience -Drummond
    Sharing tools and chores – Drummond
    AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – You determine your own social engagement – Whether in a city with many people or on a small Island with few people it can help you age well
  • December 13, 2023 – A book undone!

    Using the photo on the left, I painted the book cover on the right. I wanted show how you can use a photograph, as a base, for a story.  In this case the story is: Did the Four Winds get traded for the West Wright Potter before the Potter (or the author) sailed off into the GAP’s sunset?  Keep coming back – the end of the book has not been written yet. 

    A book without end – Yet
    AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Snap more photos, tell more stories – better yet – Live a life full of stories!
  • December 12, 2023 – Sailing (selling) the good Life – Plus Dave’s Swan photos posted yesterday.

    Jim wrote:   You can’t buy happiness but you can buy a boat.  I had a number of “bay boats”, canoes, kayaks, sunfish, windsurfers.  I can’t help but rub it into my family with a photo like this when I am boating  in my open outboard, padding my canoe, or boating through the Gap at night in my Four Winns inboard/outboard.  Actually, I used this photo to entice them to come visit and spend a week with me. I feel this photo belongs in a magazine sailing (selling) the good life idea.

    Summer 2019.

    Dave wrote:  Hi  Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog.  Tundra Swans. They breed in the high Arctic and migrate thru NY state in the late fall. They stop on the larger lakes in NY on their way to the Chesapeak Bay area where they winter. Dave

    12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI
    12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI
    12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI
    12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI

     

    AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – Snap some photos that will help you sell the message that you want family to visit you!

     

     

  • December 11, 2023 – No freighter this time – just the Gap as a background. Then look at Dave’s photos from yersterday.

    I wroter:Here is another Gap photo – and an other life of me photo. In another life and another Island, as an ordained minister, I performed many weddings, most performed in the church with small to moderate sized parties. Some were performed outside overlooking the Atlantic Ocean with a wedding party of a hundred. So, years later, a small informal wedding on Whitney Bay, overlooking the Gap, caught my attention. In order to not disturb them, I peeked around my bushes to take the interesting snapshot, showing the Gap in the background. One more Gap photo was added to my photo library.

    A wedding on Whitney Bay overlooking the Gap. July 2021
    Me performing a wedding – Block Island. Around 1990.

    Dave wrote:  Hi  Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog.  Tundra Swans. They breed in the high Arctic and migrate thru NY state in the late fall. They stop on the larger lakes in NY on their way to the Chesapeak Bay area where they winter. Dave

    12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI
    12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI
    12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI
    12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI

     

    AS I SWING THROUGH LIFE – My goal at the weddings I performed was to make that their most special day. – To make someone’s day special is a good idea!
  • december 10, 2023 – Dave Tundra Swan and 2 of my 100’s of Gap photos (at sunset)

    december 10, 2023 – Dave Tundra Swan and 2 of my 100’s of Gap photos (at sunset)

    Jim wrote: When the Swans arrived on Drummond Island – it was one of those things that someone saw them and shouted “The swans are back” and eveyone ran to look out toward the gap to see them swim by.  When a swan flies, it exhibits incredible smooth strength in it’s wings – really it’s whole body is a thing of graceful strength with it’s neck outstreatched  to the front and it’s feet outstreatched to the back.  Check it out on Dave’s photo below.

    Dave wrote:  Hi  Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog.  Tundra Swans. They breed in the high Arctic and migrate thru NY state in the late fall. They stop on the larger lakes in NY on their way to the Chesapeak Bay area where they winter. Dave

    12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI
    12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI
    12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI
    12 10 2023 DAVE CESARI

    Now My Gap:

    Yesterday I showed this morning photo.
    July 2023 Jim Brubaker
    Early evening
    Later evening
    AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – keep that phone camera ever ready – you may want to take a snapshot of something in the parking lot of Publix’s to share with us because it made you smile.

     

  • December 9, 2023 – A beautiful summer view:

    “I am ‘rephotographer‘ because I have at least 100 photos of Great Lake Freighters in the gap. This is a 1,000 footer heading for the Soo Locks and into the Lake that holds the Edmund Fitzgerald. I am aiming for the nine ten and I bet I see her there.” (That last sentence is Island language)

    July 2023 Jim Brubaker
    AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE – with the phone camera you may become a rephotographer and that ain’t bad!
  • December 7,2023 – Another Photo Story of the past about the future.

    Ponies are slow compared to planes. Yesterday I wrote about the youth experiencing the responsibilities of flying RC airplanes. I predicted the experience would help him prepare to manage a fast changing world. This 80 year box camera photo shows me experiencing one of the responsibilities of owning farm animals. Farm responsibilities were a strong part of the experience of youth in those rural homes. I believe it helped us have a positive impact on those we touched throughout the slower changing future of 1944.

    12 07 2023
    AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE -know that the future will happen.
  • December 6, 2023 – My primarty goal is to see the future!

    This photo story is about the 30 year future. Wish I could see it. Folks, from the generation of this young man in red, will be managing our world. Amazing, he is already a certified Radio Controlled pilot. Those beside him could be a retired fighter pilot and a commercial airline pilot. Their planes are connected to satellites, giving the pilot information, and in some instances doing safety moves for him. Soon he will communicate his take-off plans and the run-way will be his. The senior pilots respond knowing the young man is in control of the run-way air space at that time. This experience is building technical and social skills as well as confidence to help his generation manage our word, when cities will need to handle 100’s of millions, colonies on planets will need support, planes, trains, and automobiles will all be pilotless, and things we never thought of will need solutions.

    JEB – 12 06 2023
    AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE -Appreciate activities and organizations that help prepare our youth to manage our future world.
  • December 5, 2023 – Seeing art each day:

    Our “The Great Outdoors” community is blessed with an array of weather conditions that produce special clouds for the base of creative photo art .

    The sky over TGO 2023
    AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE -Look up and all is well with the world.