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If this isn’t nice, what is?

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My uncle Alex Vonnegut, a Harvard-educated life insurance salesman who lived at 5033 North Pennsylvania Street, taught me something very important. He said that when things were really going well we should be sure to notice it. He was talking about simple occasions, not great victories: maybe drinking lemonade on a hot afternoon in the shade, or smelling the aroma of a nearby bakery, or fishing and not caring if we catch anything or not, or hearing somebody all alone playing a piano really well in the house next door. Uncle Alex urged me to say this out loud during such epiphanies: “If this isn’t nice, what is?”

— Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (Seven Stories Press, 2005)

Notes:

  • “If this isn’t nice, what is?” DK Photo: Baby Robins. 1pm. June 1, 2025. Stamford, CT. Thank you Barry and Cara Denison for sharing your beautiful finding.
  • Quote: Thank you The Hammock Papers

Tuesday Morning

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Tuesday morning @ 5:39 am @ Cove Island Park. 55° F. (Audio control – bottom left.)

More photos from this morning’s walk here.

Post inspired by Paul Lynch from the Prophet Song: “The birds will always inhabit the earth, the birds calling the dawn.”

Disaster Update…(we hope)

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We have an URGENT update to Sunday’s morning’s joyous post: “And, it’s that time again. Thank God for that.”

The post shared some photo’s of Gracie and George’s new giant nest at Cove Island Park, along with two giant eggs, and the pair circling to protect their territory.

Well, it may have been climate change. Or, it may have been very bad judgment to build the nest in harm’s way, but by mid afternoon Sunday, the high tide swamped the nest, washed it away and pushed the abandoned eggs up the embankment. And, our Swans had gone. Disaster!

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74 seconds of must watch TV

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“Now a year ago I put you a very similar video, but I’m telling you it’s not the same. Here you will see how a pair of blue tit examines the new home, builds the nest, lays the eggs and cares for the young. Don’t miss a detail” 🐣. 📹 Nest Box. pic.twitter.com/4S57xWigtV

— Barrufet del temps (@MeteoBarrufet) October 6, 2022

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Thank you

And then, there was One.

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My Swans @ Daybreak. 6:37 am, April 9, 2022. 47° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.More photos from this morning here.