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Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

by Gayle Alstrom, posted in Nature Photography, Staten Island, Weekly Photo Challenge

Photo from Staten Island’s Greenbelt (photos from spring 2012)

Many trees in the Greenbelt fell after Hurricane Sandy, but mostly very old trees.  After these are cleared out, new trees will grow in their place, and a renewal will take place.  This seems like how nature works to recycle the old into the new and keep things going.  What bothers me is all the squirrels and birds that lived in those fallen trees.  I hope they weren’t hurt and will find new homes.  There are also deer that live in the Greenbelt area.  I hope they all survived okay.

Bird Feeder Area at Blue Heron Park, Staten Island, NY (Spring 2012)

Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal

by Gayle Alstrom, posted in Weekly Photo Challenge
Sunrise on Raritan Bay, Staten Island (2007)

Raritan Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean on the south shore of Staten Island.  New Jersey also shares Raritan Bay.  In Staten Island this beach area is also called Princess Bay and has a small boat dock.  It’s a very rocky beach with lots of sea debris, which makes it good for finding interesting shells and rocks washed in from the sea.  As you can see in the photo, there are hardly ever any waves.

weekly photo challenge: geometry

by Gayle Alstrom, posted in Weekly Photo Challenge
Windows designed by Frank Lloyd Wright at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
TransAmerica Building in San Francisco (1982), I took this photo because if you look very closely there is a man on the building climbing it.  When he got to the top he was arrested.  He is very tiny and dressed in white and looks as if he has a black backpack.  He is located about in the middle of the photo.  As you can see, I didn’t have much of a telephoto lense in those days.  This made front-page headlines in San Francisco.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine

by Gayle Alstrom, posted in animal issues, Weekly Photo Challenge
Bobbi-the-Tailless

The first thought that came into my mind when thinking about “Mine:”  MY CAT Bobbi.  Because I live in an apartment on the third floor of a building, Bobbi is strictly an indoor cat.  Besides being quite elderly, she is scared and intimidated by all other cats, therefore she doesn’t mine being inside all the time in a one-bedroom apartment with only myself.  She has never given me indication that she would like to go outside.

I don’t know how old she is, but she has lived with me for 14 years.  I got her from a vet to where she had been taken as a stray.  At the vets they altered her, gave her the regulatory shots, and got her healthy before putting her up for adoption.  I’ve never had any health problems with her and have never had to take her to the vet.

She was already named Bobbi before I adopted her, because she hasn’t a tail, it had been bobbed off.  I’ve never known how she lost her tail and the vet didn’t know either.  I think she might have been born that way, since there is no scar tissue around her tail area.  I’m sorry I don’t have any precious cat videos of her playing the piano or anything like that.

 

She likes small spaces