Jottings From Jersey: September 2011

Friday, September 30, 2011

Weekend Reflections #106

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Sky Watch Friday, Season 5, Episode 12

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Thursday Photo Challenge

This week's challenge: "Golden"

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Autumn Leaf

If I were a leaf on a majestic tall tree,

And I had the choice, of which I could be,

I’d be a maple to turn orange yellow gold

When the cool autumn winds turned warm nights cold.

I’d want to be high as high could be,

So all of the world would be open to me.

I’d sway with the wind, spring, summer and fall

Up in the maple so big and so tall.

Then one moonlit night in October’s cold air,

A beautiful frost would come paint me with care.

All leaves would turn color, as God would have done

To give the world beauty for short days to come.

Then if I could choose on which day I would fall

I pick late October when winds came to call.

I’d choose Sunday morning so bright and sunny,

As sun through the leaves flowed golden as honey.

I’d pick the sweet moment, when the wind was just right

To let go of my limb and float nice and light

Drifting ever so calmly from the place of my birth,

Then gently lie down to my rest here on earth.

by Sharon P. Pinnick

Monday, September 26, 2011

Our World Tuesday, Week 5

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Taken at Sayan Gardens in Hamilton Twp., NJ.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Scenic Sunday

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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Camera Critters #181

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Friday, September 23, 2011

Weekend Reflections #105

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Sky Watch Friday, Season 5, Episode 11

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Not really a sky picture, but the red flower combined with the aqua blueness of the sky make everything just stand out.

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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

To Autumn

To Autumn

By John Keats

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,

And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease,

For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,

Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook

Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:

And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

Steady thy laden head across a brook;

Or by a cider-press, with patient look,

Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?

Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,

And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Among the river sallows, borne aloft

Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;

Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Our World Tuesday, Week 4

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Dragon boat racing at Mercer County Park, Hamilton, NJ.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Scenic Sunday

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Camera Critters #180

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Friday, September 16, 2011

Weekend Reflections #104

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Sky Watch Friday Season 5, Episode 10

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Monday, September 12, 2011

Our World Tuesday, Week 3

An Architect's office property in Chesterfield Twp., NJ.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

God Bless America!

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Camera Critters #179

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Friday, September 09, 2011

Weekend Reflections

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Sky Watch Friday Season 5, Episode 9

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Are You Too Nice?

You Are Too Nice

You are a very sweet and considerate person. You always want to make others comfortable, and that's the problem.

You are too much about what others think, and you're often willing to modify your behavior to please them.

You need to stop being so nice and start standing up for yourself. Practice being more assertive.

Never apologize or explain unless you're in the wrong. Say no quickly. It's freeing to stop caring what others think!

Are You Too Nice?

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