Today, for "C" day in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, it's going to be a busy blog post for me. I participate in a skywatching meme each Friday, and I'm also doing the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.
First, watching the sky for Yogi's Skywatch Friday, I am featuring some Clouds I saw from my front porch on March 31, just before a severe thunderstorm hit.
We were on the fringes of the storm, but we still got pea sized hail. Fortunately, nothing seemed damaged and Clouds qualify for "C" day in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.
Next, on the way to the Boston, Massachusetts cruise port in July, 2024, I saw this beautiful urban art:
Downtown Boston, Massachusetts, July 2024. , I'd love to know who created this.
These are hard to see so I turned one into a high contrast black and white photo.
Sailboats in the harbor.
Finally, a Commemoration I do each year on my blog. On April 3rd of each year, I Commemorate a mass shooting at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York.
On April 3, 2009, a troubled 41 year old immigrant walked into a building housing the American Civic Association on the edge of downtown Binghamton. He shot the receptionist (she survived) and entered an adult classroom for immigrants. Seconds later, 14 people, including the shooter (by suicide), were dead.
Most of the victims were, themselves, immigrants.
This post of April 10, 2009 was my first blog post.
I will not forget, and neither will the
people of Binghamton. There has been so much mindless violence since that date, and it's hard, thinking of all the families who have suffered.
Here is a commemoration event held in 2025.
It seems like nothing has changed except the number of dead and injured over the years, hasn't it?
I wish I didn't have to blog about it during a Blogging from A to Z Challenge whose theme is Beauty in our Land.
I will leave you with one more spot of beauty - Madame Alexander's Dolls, a tribute to one of the dead. Sadly, the museum I blogged about no longer exists, but the memory lives on.
Tomorrow, a happier D post.
I love the urban art!
ReplyDeleteGood skies.
ReplyDeleteNice post. Boston is a great city.
ReplyDelete...we have been "enjoying" a rainy week.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad that we have to reflect on past atrocities, but it is necessary, if we are to develop into a kinder, better society.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos and I loved the cloud pictures you shared! So lovely stopping by your blog, after what feels like ages, Alana! I too posted for SkywatchFriday today along with my post for 'C 'on A-Z. Looking forward to your posts from D-Z now. :)
ReplyDeleteThe sky looks dark and serious, glad the hail wasn't too mean. Boston is a great city. The shooting is horribly sad, as they all are :(
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, the violence still happens. If only we could commemorate these tragedies as things that belong to the past and the past alone.
ReplyDeleteThe cloud pictures are so nice.
ReplyDeleteWe have cloudy skies this week.
ReplyDeleteWorth a Thousand Words
Beautiful sky/clouds photos and lovely commemoration ~
ReplyDeleteHugs ^_^
Nice clouds, and that deer is marvelous!
ReplyDeletegreat photos!
ReplyDeletei agree its terrible how violence seems to be a growing epidemic with each passing year.
It's been cloudy here most of the day.
ReplyDeleteI love your cruise harbor photos including the fancy horse sculpture and the sailboats.
ReplyDeleteThat shooting and the commemorations. Such shootings have become way too commonplace. The day I moved to Edmond, Oklahoma in August, 1986 from Dallas is the day that a postal worker in the post office shot and killed a bunch of his coworkers. I didn't get my mail for a week but I sure wasn't going to complain about it.
And then the Oklahoma City Bombing years later that killed 168 people. Done by a guy who was butthurt over our gun laws.
The storm clouds rolling in mix well with the rainy day I am having today (and the rest of this week). Beautiful pictures.
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