Lemony Zest :: Kim Lewandowski

Archive for September, 2005

Here’s my entry for PhotoFriday’s challenge for this week: Burn

This was taken when we were sailing last Friday, 9/23, on the Elizabeth River between Portsmouth and Norfolk. It was a beautiful night, even though we apparently couldn’t figure out what the race course was supposed to be. Oh well, better luck tomorrow

Update 10/1: re: the race course last week, we were right and all the rest of the boats were wrong! So the race was scrubbed and not counted. Geez. That’s a lesson to go with your gut.

I just heard on our local NPR radio station that this is Banned Books Week. So read a banned book for the cause. Here are a few to choose from:

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Any Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowling

As my mom says, if you can read, you can never be bored. You never run out of reading material.

I’m submitting to PhotoFriday, for the topic Divine, this photo I took at the Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs, Colorado last summer:

I picked all this from my garden the other day (except the bananas) – the huge cucumber that was hiding behind large leaves, several green peppers, lots of red jalapeno peppers, and some basil, for making pesto for pesto pasta.

I just think that’s a beautiful picture I think I’ll submit it to PhotoFriday for the weekly photo topic Divine.

Comments?

Last year, Congress mandated that all schools receiving federal money must teach something about the Constitution to students on the anniversary of Constitution Day (the date the Constitution was signed – September 17, 1787), which is today. According to our local paper, most local schools taught something yesterday.

I think this is actually a good idea, so here are some other related links:

• The Bill of Rights – the first ten amendments to the Constitution
• The Federalist Papers
• About the Federalist Papers

Okay, so my friends tell me I have to let all of you reading this (how many of you are there, anyway?) know that some of my photography is being shown at the Daily Grind coffeeshop (scroll down to “Lunch”) in downtown Portsmouth for the month of September. The owner, Shannon Woodland, shows artwork by a different artist every month.

Here’s a sample of the photography:

It’s a 12th-century high cross in Drumcliffe, County Sligo, Ireland. Dan and I visited there in August of 2003. It was a great trip – we rented a car and drove from one town to the next, staying in farmhouse B&Bs, and stopping at interesting ruins along the way. The last night, we stayed in a castle. Our travel agent set it up, so I didn’t realize until we got there that the castle is a 5-star resort – it’s where Bill Clinton stayed when he was negotiating with Northern Ireland. It’s an absolutely gorgeous place.

Anyway, the photographs are for sale, so if you’re interested, stop by the Daily Grind and have a look.