Ramblin' with AM

Welcome! I hope I bring a spot of calm and happiness into these uncertain times. I blog about my photography adventures, flowers, gardening, the importance of chocolate in a well lived life, or anything else on my mind.

Sunday, February 3, 2019

Healthy Super Bowl!

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For those of my readers not in the United States, a brief explanation.  Super Bowl Sunday (today) is the final, championship game of ou...
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Saturday, February 2, 2019

Local Saturday - The Frozen Groundhog

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Today is Groundhog Day in the United States, where we pull a groundhog out of the ground to predict the weather.   It's purely scientif...
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Friday, February 1, 2019

Mega Snow Squall #SkywatchFriday

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We skywatchers usually watch the sky to witness sunrises, sunsets, beautiful cloud formations, and so forth. We don't usually want to ...
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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Within the Vortex

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On this last day of the Ultimate Blog Challenge, I keep a promise I make to my blog readers, some of whom live in places that never see sno...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Snowday

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Snow days have never been so musical. A Michigan school superintendent and a high school principal teamed up to sing an announcement that...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Palm in a Box

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We were looking around in a landmark farm stand in Florida earlier this month when my spouse noticed it. "It" was a small palm s...
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Monday, January 28, 2019

Cold Music - #MusicMovesMe #blogboost

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It's Monday and guess what time it is?  Yes, it is time for another #MusicMovesMe. Who are the #MusicMovesMe bloggers? We are bloggers...
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Sunday, January 27, 2019

Parakeet Curtains

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The hospice is a small place, tucked into a neighborhood in a city in Pennsylvania.  Outside the house it must be lovely in the summer, but ...
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Saturday, January 26, 2019

Local Saturday - Living Wormholes

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Taken January 2013 She is what some call a human wormhole.   And I hope she'll forgive me for saying so, because she knows I love ...
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Friday, January 25, 2019

Palm Beach County Sunset #SkywatchFriday #blogboost

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I've said it more than once - January sunsets are some of the best. We have nice ones near Binghamton, New York, where I work, but Flo...
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Thursday, January 24, 2019

The Road #ThursdayTreeLove #blogboost

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My readers in warm climes will love today's post.  We who live in the Northeast United States will not. Thanks to my guest photographe...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Mona Lavender - Wordless Wednesday

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In the northeast United States, covered in snow and shivering in bitter temperatures, what we need now is a picture of a flower. This is...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

It's All About the Spam Comments

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Nowadays, when I get on my blog in the morning, the first thing I see is comments - comments of encouragement and love. Here are some from...
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Monday, January 21, 2019

Standing in the Shadows - #MusicMovesMe #blogboost

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It's Monday and time for another Music Moves Me. Who are the #MusicMovesMe bloggers? We are bloggers who blog about music each Monday...
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Sunday, January 20, 2019

A Technology Mystery

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Have you ever heard of a wire recorder? I have a little family mystery I've never been able to solve, and I'm curious to know i...
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Saturday, January 19, 2019

The Art of Keeping in Touch

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A blog post I recently read reminded me of a blog post from 2012, which I repeat today with a little updating. I had recently visited Bro...
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Friday, January 18, 2019

Brooklyn Moods #SkywatchFriday #blogboost

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Brooklyn, New York, is part of New York City.  It's a part that was once neglected by tourists, but more and more are finding that Br...
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Thursday, January 17, 2019

The Lessons of MLK and Mudcat Grant

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It is sobering to realize that January 15, 2019 would have been the 90th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Of course, he was never allo...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2019

The Great Molasses Flood

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It wasn't a joke.  It wasn't sweet.  And when I first heard about it several years ago, it was hard to believe. On January 15, 191...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day January 2019

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Welcome to the 15th of January.  It's time for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. Where I live in upstate New York, winter couldn't make u...
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From the housing projects of New York City to rural Arkansas to upstate New York, I've traveled a long and winding road. Learning more daily about writing, photography, and the importance of chocolate in a well-lived life.
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