James Brubaker

BTW – There are two ways to view past posts: scroll to bottom and click on previous posts. The other way is to click on a post title in the left column (the menu).

Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. A series of  Black-capped Chickadees. Black-capped Chickadees breed  across the northern USA and Canada.  A similar bird the Carolina Chickadee breeds in the southern US. They are supposed to breed south to central Florida but I have never seen one in Florida.  Chickadees readily come to bird feeders and stay around all year. They are not migratory but do irrupt southward on occasion. Dave

10 26 2022 Dave Cesari

10 26 2022 Dave Cesari

10 26 2022 Dave Cesari

10 26 2022 Dave Cesari

10 26 2022 Dave Cesari

10 26 2022 Dave Cesari             Jim’s Comment=I see a  Chickadee in action –  almost surreal art – I love it!

I stood on my driveway and held the camera over my head for this shot.  Haha.

I enjoy practicing with my new drone – Really a camera with very long arms. This is my home on the lake from a birds flight view.

As you swing through life,  add some action time each day.

Dave has done so much for this blog.  I am working to get a better clickable menu in place (In the left side bar here or maybe in the menu on your cell phone).  Let me know what you think.

Dave’s photos are outstanding and his messages regarding the habits of the birds in our life gives us insights we only find here on this blog.  The improved menu should help you go back over time to see his postings of the past.

He also points out about the decline in bird population.  Audubon’s websites are a place to read about the details of the decline and what you can do about it.

For this posting Dave wrote: Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. This is my latest set up. Worked on it today. A nice day here 66 degrees F. Blue Jays, a Chickadee and a White breasted Nuthatch.  Dave

10 16 2022 Dave Cesari

10 16 2022 Dave Cesari

10 16 2022 Dave Cesari

10 16 2022 Dave Cesari

10 16 2022 Dave Cesari

10 16 2022 Dave Cesari

As you swing through life enjoy your photos on a rainy afternoon and jump on the computer and enjoy the photos posted by your photographer friends!

Dave wrote:  Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. A Red-throated Loon. This bird is an adult just starting it’s molt into winter or non-breeding plumage. In winter plumage they are basically black and white.  Red-throated Loons breed in the high Arctic. They winter off the Coast of the Atlantic Ocean. They can also be found on the Great Lakes in winter. I have seen them on Lake Ontario in winter.  It is quite unusual to have one in the Rome, NY area. This bird was on the Barge Canal about 3 miles from our house. It was fun to see and photograph it in mostly breeding plumage as we have never seen that before. Dave

09 01 2022 Dave Cesari

09 01 2022 Dave Cesari

I want move your eyes from this quite unusual Loon in the Rome, NY area to a rather usual animal in our TGO Florida.  But even if this guy isa  common site in and around the lake behind our house he/she is always fun to see and photograph.

That smile suggest he/she is looking for a friendly dog or squirrel to share lunch with. I used the 3x lens on my iPhone and a little photoshop to get this close to his lunch table.

09 01 2022 Hidden Lakes

As you swing through life, do as Dave says – grab your camera and have fun shooting the Loon in your area – even if you have to substitute that Loon with and Alligator, have fun with your camera!

Dave Wrote:  Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. A train and the RR tracks behind our property. See I can shoot something besides birds. Very slow here not much moving yet. aves

08 23 2022 Dave Cesari

08 23 2022 Dave Cesari

08 23 2022 Dave Cesari

08 23 2022 Dave Cesari

I wrote:  You do not know how wonderful Dave’s photos were for me?  They triggered memories.  One of the first times I got off the homestead farm I grew up on, was when I was sent to first grade in a one-room school house, at age six, in  a little coal mining town in the hills of southern Pennsylvania.

Think I cried for the whole  first month.   Then, I found the coal trains going right along the school play yard – Rather than play ball with kids I did not know, I would sit by the tracks and watch the trains roll by – wave at the engineers. I think it was the start of my years of travel lust.  That joy of travel never ended – all because of those trains!

I think that must be me on the bank – right next the that smoke belching traveling machine!

Dave has trains in his back yard – Here in TGO we have friendly deer – I counted nearly 20, near the Rally Lot, one evening when I was out on my bike!  A good promo for TGO – The Great Outdoors.

As you swing through life – Do something new – Dave did and triggered in me a fun memory. Of course Mom and Dad forced me to do something new – go to first grade!

Dave wrote:  Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. An immature male Yellowthroat. Yellowthroats are members of the warbler family. Also Cardinals male and female at my feeder set up. This is the slow time for bird photography. Hopefully it will improve as fall gets closer.   Dave

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08-18-2022-Dave-Cesari

08-18-2022-Dave-Cesari

08-18-2022-Dave-Cesari

08-18-2022-Dave-Cesari

In my last posting here I spoke of PhotoShop and recording memories – another subject I enjoy thinking about is politicians – not as candidates but as a person working their way through a career as we all did in our 20’s through some future year (Our working years).  I like to read about how they studied, practiced, and worked at being successful as as person in a career.  Well, Thomas and John have always been fun to read about and that reading made me jump onto PhotoShop just for fun:

Political debate in 1800 when things were slow – John and Thomas – Thomas won!

I was thinking about the speed of technological change and how it impacts me even before my eyes are fully open at my breakfast hot coffee.

Every morning on TV, the politicians are fighting it out for the mid-term’s – often miss-using events that happened overnight. But think about how it was 200 years ago before TV, cell phones, internet, and even before postal service. How many days dit it take to transport a letter from Virginia to Massachusetts – and who would transport that letter? Politicians had to fight with old information – but they did fight just like today.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826. 

Adams was 90, and Jefferson was 83— They had been rivals, indeed enemies, for some time; Jefferson had defeated Adams in the presidential election of 1800. But they had repaired their differences and had pursued active letter writing with each other years before their deaths. 

On that final day, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Adams died at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, and Jefferson died at his home in Monticello, Virginia. 

John Adams whispered his last words: “Thomas Jefferson survives.” But he was wrong – Jefferson had died at Monticello a few hours earlier.

John Adams spoke without complete information! But in those days politicians had an excuse – Information flow was slow – it took days to move information from Monticello to Quincy.  When John was on his death bed he could not wait that long to see if Tom was really surviving, so he spoke with what he assumed was correct!

As you swing through life, join me and study the politician as a person – it is fun – later on you can worry about his/her political position – if you see it as fun.