James Brubaker

While researching  birds, I found this in a dictionary:

Birds help keep ecosystems in balance by eating pests, pollinating plants, and dispersing seeds. They also scavenge carcasses and garbage, which reduces the spread of disease:

The waiting line is a social opportunity for humans. Wonder if birds socialize while waiting?

Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog.   A Northern Shrike appeared in our yard a few days ago. We get Shrikes in some winters. Haven’t seen one in a few years. The Northern Shrike is a northern bird that comes south in some winters. Shrikes are a predatory song bird that prey on insects, mice and smaller birds. Florida gets the Migrant Shrike but that is a completely different species.   Dave

Dave Cesari 12 10 2024

Dave Cesari 12 10 2024

Dave Cesari 12 10 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE: -enjoy the birds you see evey time you open your eyes outside!

Dave wrote:Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. A Fox Sparrow at my feeder set up. We get Fox Sparrows as they pass thru on migration in the spring and fall. We  are always glad to see them when they show up.  Dave

11 04 2024 Dave Cesari

11 04 2024 Dave Cesari

11 04 2024 Dave Cesari

I WROTE:  I created this photo-art piece to praise New Jersey.  New Jersey’s “Loantaka Preserve”, pictured here, emulates, for thousands of people within 30 miles of   Manhattan, what my family uniquely experienced while camping in far off Newfoundland 60 years ago.  NJ has done a great job at maintaining natural areas for its residents during this time of extreme housing development.

JEB 11 04 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE: Look for ways to help the developers desing better living environments for their residents.

David wrote:  Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. A Ring-necked Pheasant that showed up in our yard one day last week.  Plus a shot of a Chickadee at our feeder set up. I  have shot many Chickadees but they  are hard  to resist.    Dave

10 24 2024 David Cesari

10 24 2024 David Cesari

10 24 2024 David Cesari

I wrote: This morning I dreamt of a wildlife drama outside my summer office. Thanks Heather for that beautiful office window.

JEB 10 24 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE: the view out your window can reduce your need for a travel brochure – and your window view is there every morning, day, and night.

I often worked in Basingstoke, UK near Stonehenge. Some say it is symbolic art representing “peace and unity” when Neolithic people were experiencing cultural unification 4,000 years ago.  I could go there, after a hard day at work, and feel the quiet, spiritual symbolism of Stonehenge.  Our arch does not have the same depth of ethereal connection but I made this photo-painting to remind us to appreciate it’s symbolic call to “home” after we have been gone for the summer, on a cruise, or to Publix.

JEB 10 21 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE: Identify something or someone that gives your mind a symbolic message.

At the end of my 8 mile bike ride I cam upon this sign. The rest is history!

JEB 10 18 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE: bike or hike every day – just so you can find that Ice Cream Plaza in your life.

DAVE WROTE:  Hi Jim, A cold rainy day here in the Rome area. Temperature only 40 degrees F. A small flock of Robins moved thru. Bathing and fighting in a puddle.

10 14 2024 Dace Cesari

10 14 2024 Dace Cesari

10 14 2024 Dace Cesari

10 14 2024 Dace Cesari

10 14 2024 Dace Cesari

I WROTE:  The world on top the northern Allegheny Mountains, where I was born and raised, are the most beautiful memories in my mind. I painted one such memory of the country lane thru the Brubaker farm that is in my mind.

JEB 10 14 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE: Enjoy those seasons and/or the memories of them.

Dave Wrote:  Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. These were all taken at my feeder set  up. A male and female Towhee, a Red-bellied Woodpecker and a Grackle. We are starting to get some colder weather here in upstate NY.  Temperature was 40 degree F. for the last two mornings at 7.00 AM.  Dave

08 12 2024 Dave Cesari

08 12 2024 Dave Cesari

08 12 2024 Dave Cesari

08 12 2024 Dave Cesari

08 12 2024 Dave Cesari

TV, Internet, &  iPhone filled my mind with images of Milton things – I  made a paintingof many of them .

10 12 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE: Enjoy days that are different but be glad to return to normal

Can’t go out but I can play on computer – I pray that we will all be safe during this nature’s happening. I made this abtract  while waiting for Milton to come and exit.  It represents “Hurricane  spookiness”.

JEB 10 09 2024 “Hurricane Spookiness”

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE: Prepare for whatever spooky hurricanes are headed your way!

My starter’s for this digital painting:  I hung the feeders and often photographed them at my daughter’s in New Jersey.  Gloria photographed the red in the lower corneer from inside a her car at a NYC car wash.

JEB 10 07 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE: turn to what ever your indoor hobby is when the weather turns foul.

Yesterday, I was at an important meeting in the Morristown Village Green.

JEB 10 03 2024

AS YOU SWING THROUGH LIFE: Remember, social media photos might be fun to see BUT I believe all have been modified a little -maybe just automatically AI’ed by the camera!