Category: Cluttered Closet

Photo of a Eastern gray squirrel

Brodie brings a golden history nugget: Immigrant squirrel sponsored by Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin loved Eastern gray squirrels…loved them so much that during his diplomatic services (1770) in England he sent word to his wife Deborah to send some of the gray creatures across the pond to him.  He would then give them as gifts.

Portrait of founding fathers with Benjamin Franklin as the focal point along with George Washington
Portrait of founding fathers with Benjamin Franklin, representing Pennsylvania, as the focal point along with George Washington

Mungo was the treasured gray who met a rather viscous death…so loved was the furry gray that Mr. Franklin wrote a special elegy.

Golden squirrel love and paws up!

19th century --- President James K. Polk, (1795-1849). An illustrated half-length portrait from a daguerrotype by Matthew Brady. Undated illustration. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

Brodie unearths Polk being dug up yet again?

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Gotta golden tell you that the 11th President of the United States, James Polk…keeps moving around…his remains have been exhumed three times and still…there is another possibility of relocating him yet again.

R.I.GoldenP.  President Polk.

Golden Brodie History Nugget

 

 

Unclose photo of the center of a tulip

The Natural World Haiku: Heart of the tulip

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Nature Symmetry
Symbolic of perfect love
A spring brevity

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/9/17

Photo by PamelaWLucas 4/9/17

Blue snap sweet peas

Haiku: Sweet pea

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Plant early don’t wait
cool weather brings the blossoms
Fragrant and sturdy

Sweet peas and tendrils
Sweet peas and tendrils

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/7/17

Photos by Pixby

How to grow sweet peas from seeds.

Red-orange columbine showing yellow seeds

Haiku: Wild Columbine

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Wind blows tiny seeds

color spreading near and far

luring bumblebees

Bumble bee nectaring on a columbine
Bumble bee nectaring on a columbine

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/5/17

Photos by Pixby

Cherry blossoms frame the Washington Monument

Haiku: Soft blossoms embrace monuments

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Delicate pink stay
Cherry softens hard granite
Wind takes your presence

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/4/17

Inspiring and contributing photo by Fe Caces 4/17

First fruits on a Russian olive

Haiku: Russian Olive

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Invasive beauty

Bearing olive like red fruits

A Sweet fragrance

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 4/3/17

Photo by PamelaWLucas 4/3/17

Russian Olives are not native to the United States.  They interfere in natures balance with their fast growing, water demanding presence.  Lovely and fragrant, plant these olives in contained places and away from wooded areas.

Pink camellia blooms in Heathsville, VA

Haiku: Southern warmth

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Oh camellia

copious tender blossoms

linger in soft shade

Haiku by PamelaWLucas 3/31/17

Inspiring and contributing photo by Diane Bridges Wilson in Heathsville, Virginia 3/17

 

Honeybees working their hive

Uncomplicated thoughts: Colony Collapse

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Buying plants treated with neoniconoids (commonly used pesticides) can cause colony collapse…killing bees or changing their behavior.  Protect the honeybees…beware of neoniconoids when buying plants and seeds.

Help save the honeybees…it’s not complicated to make a difference.