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BAY VIEW The small store front café stood on the corner of Bridgeway and Princess Road. Sunlight streamed in through the large window glass, illuminating the otherwise sleeping room. To the side, there was a bar which ran the length of the room. Bronze stools, with burgundy, leather seats stood permanently bolted to...
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Picadillo This is very basic Cuban fare, served with white rice, fried plantains (maduros), with black beans being optional, but preferred. I make mine with cilantro, which most people do not use, and I add the dried plums and a touch of hot peppers. Also, I would probably add a bit more...
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Char’s Bumble Bee and Echinacea He was such a busy bee. Working very hard! I am so glad he let me photograph him.
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Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox, Babe! I love roadside attractions; I know that they are kitschy, but is that not why we so enjoy stopping at huge tepee’s or massive balls of twine? Big matters when it comes to these crazy View’s from the Road – and I have to say...
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The Hope of Sunshine and Warmth Though the calendar bid farewell to winter, Mother Earth seems determined to linger in her chilly, wet, windy mode, with snow flurries dotting the ground in May. I had not expected to find such gloomy weather on this trip; naked trees, dead grasses, and swollen rivers as...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Nuclear Energy by Henry Moore Nuclear Energy by sculptor Henry Moore sits on the exact spot, at the University of Chicago, where members of Manhattan Project, led by Enrico Fermi, on December 2,...
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Where Were You on 9-11? In a few short months, we shall mark the tenth anniversary of the Nine-Eleven attacks. I have previously shared my experience, http://thatisallfornow.com/?page_id=1491, now I would now like to hear yours. Where were you on Nine-Eleven? What do you remember about that day? How did you feel then, and how...
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Two Lives Lost I needed you yesterday. No, I feared that I would need you; and you would not be there. It reminded me of her, oddly, she was there yesterday; but she was not there the day I needed her. You have so much in common. No, that is my delusion speaking. Decades...
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Men of Faith “Even though Times Square Church was miles away from my Tennessee church — in more ways than geographically — I felt at home there, in my red velvet seat, sitting in the sometimes uncomfortable presence of God. I closed my eyes during “Amazing Grace,” heard people all around me singing in...
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The World War II Memorial Washington, D.C. This Memorial Day we stop to remember our Veteran’s with a look at the World War II Memorial, in Washington, D.C.; which we visited last year, on Veteran’s day, and which solemnly reminds us the men and women who sacrificed so much both on the front...
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