Easy Like Sunday: Doby

 

On the road again

A Saturday afternoon spent at Tabby's Place, enjoying the company of many good cats.  On the way there, I passed a field -- or I should say, began to pass a field containing white and yellow flowers, and it stopped me in my tracks.  I stopped the car on the side of the road and got out to take a few pictures.

At Tabby's Place, a good many of the dozens of snaps I took never even made it home, and once home, many more were deleted.  But a few of them turned out all right, like this one of Mary Jane.  She was scared when I entered, with her body in a small crouched position, but by the time I left, I'd earned some of her trust and she looked more at ease.  

Foxglove or Beardtongue

Lance-leaved Coreopsis

Mary Jane

 

Forever Loved: Mishush

 

Mishush

Rabbit News

Around 5:30 this afternoon, I took the trash cans to the curb for tomorrow's pickup.  Walking back to the garage,  I stopped and looked out back.  Next to the shed were two young rabbits, the ears of one barely visible over the top of the grass.  At the other corner of our property, there were two adult rabbits.  Four rabbits is a new record, I believe.  

For awhile we had predators, including the little black pooshka and her mate, the big ol' creampuff, and we didn't have rabbits.  Now it's the other way around.  

Daisy Fleabane

 

Growing at the Upper Macungie Township yard waste site.

Prescience

A blog about early television contains the limited television schedules and Billboard magazine reviews of the original programming.

One report from April 13, 1945, describes a program put together after Franklin Roosevelt's death the day before.

"Television had its first chance at a special event here when Klaus Landsberg, director of W6XYZ, canceled his skedded show in order to present a memorial program dedicated to the late President Roosevelt.

Handicapped by the time element, Landsberg built a complete hour program from scratch that was dignified thruout and a stirring tribute to the great leader...

The entire program went off without a hitch, which was a tribute to Landberg's direction. This hour-show made history here tonight as it impressed upon Hollywood skeptics that television is flexible enough to provide the viewer with special events that will in time equal or surpass anything being done today by radio." Dean Owen. (Billboard, Apr. 21)

Landsberg has an amazing story. A Jew brilliant enough that the Nazis kept their hands off him until he could escape, taking knowledge that led to the development of radar for the United States military.  At 23, putting together TV from the New York World's Fair.  At 29, pulling together an hour-long tribute after the sudden death of the president.  More contributions and achievements followed before his death in 1956 at age 40.

Saturday at home with a rose