smiling at

peekaboo LILO grin tree
child happiness

open eyes ---this is what I look like because I believe in you!
little fist held ~ eagerness, anticipation, delight ~ a tension

I love to see her postures, undesigned

and actually looking like a caricature, or what would do to signal an emotion, make it large, like on stage.
delight really looks like that? interest really has you leaning forward. or looking up at an airplane, mouth shaped oooh ahh pursed circle.

The Hand That First Held Mine p83: She moves the rattle from side to side and the coloured beads ricochet around inside their clear globes. The effect on the baby is instantaneous and remarkable. His limbs stiffen, his eyes spring wide, his lips part in a perfect round O. It is as if he studied a manual on how to be a human being, with attention to the chaper, 'Demonstrating Surprise.'

sorter studied (Brer Rabbit). later, actually. designed. assumed, tried. stances, attitudes, postures.

A Mind At Peace opening page: His first order of business was to hire a nurse. Given that neither Ihsan's wife nor his mother ever stepped away from the sickbed, the children languished in ruin. The elderly servant could easily handle Ahmet but someone had to fully occupy his little sister Sabiha. More than anything she needed an interlocutor. As Mumtaz mused, he smiled inwardly at the various postures of his little niece.

yay Bumblebeeacres farms guineas

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hello.










oh hello.












where did that ice cream man go?











three pigs in a house, house party, house party.


Bumblebeeacres Texel Guinea Pigs

funny photos and captions "where is that ice cream man going???" & "house party" copyright ©2009 Bumblebeeacres

angora seuss

click to give @ The Animal Rescue Site - photostory 9-22-09: "Our little English Angora, Sid, was dumped at a local shelter. The vet shaved him down. Although I knew Angoras take a lot of work, it didn't matter. His home was with us. My husband was very ill at the time, but each time Sid came to visit him, my husband felt a whole lot better. He is growing out now, but our love for him is growing faster!" -Heather, San Diego, CA

whasa english angora? looks like a rabbit but is it a dr seuss haircut dog no it IS a rabbit ...

English AngoraRainbow of Colors Not all English Angora colors are seen here, there are many more. The bunnies shown below are colors that we have personally experienced ...
www.bumblebeeacres.com/EnglishAngoraRainbowofColors.htm

this Bumblebeeacres farm in Harvard, Illinois sounds wonderful ~ their breeding animals little dogs, Himalayan cats & kittens, fancy longhair bunnies and also guinea pigs, all who they are nice to. plus felt shop they have sheep & llamas, plus vegetables to market: Bumblebeeacres Farm CSA program: "We are offering pick-up on Saturdays or Tuesdays (box must be picked up by 11am, if not it will be offered to Market customers to avoid waste) at the Woodstock Farmers' Market, located on the beautiful historic Woodstock Square. This is a wonderful option as you will be able to shop at other farm booths that may have additional items that interest you."


n.b. above click to give photostory is as appeared on Animal Rescue Site frontpage. full story has title Bunnies make the best medicine and first sentences read: "Our little English Angora, Sid, was dumped at a local shelter with mats as big as his head. The vet shaved him down to reveal a tiny 2.9 lb bunny." so I would have known it was a bunny right off. did they edit just for length or to remove unpleasant thought of the terrible mats?

Lilo yellow duck onesy

remember the bull puppies: 5 July 2006

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bearzz

"just remember there's a bear there in the bunch with you. and it just don't get no better than a bear."



















...

BRIDGE (mandolin followed by dobro)


G          Em                         C
Some folks drive the bears out of the wilderness
F             C                G
Some to see a bear would pay a fee
G         Em               C
Me I just bear up to my bewildered best
F                   C                G
And some folks even seen the bear in me


G                Em                C
So meet a bear and take him on out to lunch with you
F                 C                    G
And even though your friends may stop and stare
G                           Em           C
Just remember that's a bear there in the bunch with you
F                           C             G
And they just don't come no better than a bear

*Philmont Song Book:
AIN'T NO BEARS IN ARKANSAS
By Steve Fromholz
G- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Em
Just remember there's a bear there, where?, over there in the

G                           Em           C
Just remember that's a bear there in the bunch with you
F                           C             G
And they just don't come no better than a bear


F                           C             G
No they just don't come no better than a bear
F                           C 
No they just don't come no better than
F                           C 
No they just don't come no better than
F                           C            G
No they just don't come no better that a bear

.

A 1998 performance of the terrific Steven Fromholz song, one of the great songs from Lyle`s showcase of Texas songwriters "Step Inside This House" released the same year. Band includes Sam Bush on mandolin and Mike Auldridge on dobro.

rdh with his friend Goose

happy morning:

"'sup. dis my ryan."

dunk. (o my lg.)

Laura: pouting because his new friend has to go back to chicago. boooo!

Ryan: The vignetting and vintage filter really set the mood here. Gus could not but bring out the long face for me.


fbk album - Ryan Does Gulfport

no more bedraggledness

home...

with my bittlest




near where the dogs are waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting!

Mommy, I'm going to sweep for a while

adorable charlotte

"you're a good kicker!" (several times, after I kick the soccer ball to her across the basement playroom. she's a good kicker too!)

"well sure I do." (after, eg, do you go to the pool a lot?)

"of course I have to clean up now." (doing dishes after making tea at toy kitchen unit.)



Upstairs from the playroom, in the kitchen, her mom is telling me about her favorite frog with a blanket body. I turn to see her carefully coming up the stairs, one step at a time, slow, forward, holding the frog...






*video* "baby boo-ok"



Mommy, I love this mailbox -

to me:
Will you leave this mailbox here?
(Totally, it's all yours now.)
Thank you -

Will you leave this book here?
(Sure, I'm giving it to you.)
Thank you -

Will you leave this frame here?
(Absolutely.) ... (told her that was her mommy in the photo, along with me, and also Jen & Dimit) My mommy?!

(then looking at the red mailbox & the tiny blue German dictionary, absorbed again, then looks up)
Will you leave this here?
(yes.)
Will you leave *this* here?
(yes.)

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Tuesday morning ~ midday June 16th ~ visited S's pretty home (like Forest Glen to me, small brick, tree shade, backyard view up hills with stairs built in)

Lilo ! .. "lit-tle arms" ..

wiggle wiggle wiggle "lit-tle arms" .. "we're gonna put on some cream. and then we're gonna put on a di-aper!"

old room - and, love-you-thinking-of-you

View from a Pasadena window

(not ours ~ sent in to asllvn)




Pasadena, Maryland, 7.30 am.

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For an interactive gallery of Dish readers' window views across the world, click here.

[via Ty Murray: Famous for... being married to Jewel? Bull! - TWoP Forums]
Jewel on Ty's Blog: What an Exciting Night PBR Blog: What an exciting show last night!:
Here are some pics of Ty with a couple children from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. They were so cute and Ty even danced with one of them. She was a dancing dynamo!


PBR blog - posts by Ty Murray (77)

az- The Truro Bear and Other Adventures -by Mary Oliver

There’s a bear in the Truro woods.
People have seen it - three or four,
or two, or one. I think
of the thickness of the serious woods
around the dark bowls of the Truro ponds;
I think of the blueberry fields, the blackberry tangles,
the cranberry bogs. And the sky
with its new moon, its familiar star-trails,
burns down like a brand-new heaver,
while everywhere I look on the scratchy hillsides
shadows seem to grow shoulders. Surely
a beast might be clever, be lucky, move quietly
through the woods for years, learning to stay away
from roads and houses. Common sense mutters:
it can’t be true, it must be somebody’s
runaway dog. But the seed
has been planted, and when has happiness ever
required much evidence to begin
its leaf-green breathing?

nice. skimming thr, not m engaged by these poems as poems. phrases & line breaks jar as obvious, not like thought thinking thr. I do like this one though, happily as it gives poem to the picture of the bear on the cover that I like.
fine: happiness breathes leaf-green.

and what she writes is nice. the series re her dog Percy is sweet. he does not like when she reads, no, he wouldn't. and #10 in the series: I ask Percy how I should live my life. Love, love, love. and hurry as fast as you can (why hurry? bcs fun to run?) along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then trust.
good: love, love, love. be in the world. then go to sleep, give up, trust.

Kermit the Hermit

Kermit the Hermit - .billpeet.net
In Monterey Bay There's a jumble of rock

Stacked up like a castle across from a dock.

The king of this castle, an old crab called Kermit,

Lived all by himself in a cave like a hermit.

Kermit the Hermit - Wkp
One day, when Kermit attempts to gain another unnecessary thing, he is almost buried by a dog, but is saved by a poor boy. Kermit is grateful and wants to thank the boy, but cannot think of a way to do so until he finds a chest of gold. As he stores the gold pieces in his cave, he slowly gives up one thing at a time, until he has all the gold and no more possessions in his cave. With the help of the pelican, Kermit drops coins down the boy's chimney. The boy's family becomes rich and Kermit learns the value of sharing.

"Hi, scary man!"

oh-

pic & caption from Long Live Locke.: S5Ep8 - LaFleur

the hello gaze, baby seeing *you*

Completely 'Lost': Hmm...
{Dr. Chang's baby in 5.1 opening scene ~ resemblance to Miles Straume}
shotgun willie got all of his family there



oh- I love the hello gaze, the baby seeing *you*


5 May adding closeup, source Long Live Locke.: S5Ep14 - The Variable

animal heroes

maro to patandmanoli , ecassimatis , mcassimatis

3:09pm

Click to Give @ The Animal Rescue Site

Mom, have you been remembering to go here everyday & click? I recommend making it a bookmark!! in your bookmark toolbar, so you see it.
and every day I have been getting to read about Animal Heroes, as below. it's awesome. lots of dogs & cats who helped their people notice a situation and avert catastrophe. I've liked every story! I wonder if the stories are saved somewhere. as far as I know so far, each story appears here for a day or less and then disappears from the internet...
and I guess the stories are about to end ~ "winner announced March 2nd" so that's tomorrow!
maybe when they announce the winner they will also show me a link to a page where all the stories are.

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To: customerservice@theanimalrescuesite.com

Hi,

I've really enjoyed your Animal Heroes contest, all the stories. I am looking but have not found a page where I can read all the entries. Is there such a page? an archive? Or could there be? I found the Rescued Animals Stories, but not the Animal Heroes ones. I'd love to be able to read & revisit those stories.

Thanks for your good work and a great site!

Maro