“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”
Jean Paul Richter (German Novelist and humorist, 1763-1825)
TIME: April 1968
PLACE: My parent’s kitchen
SUBJECT: My first birthday
My grandfather, Michael Caponi Sr. is standing in the doorway.
My cousin, Bobby is wearing the plaid shirt.
Standing on the other side is his older sister, my cousin Cindy.
I think that’s my cousin Lisa, facing away from the camera.
The best part of the picture?
My mom is cradling my head in her hand.
TIME: 7:23 PM
PLACE: 10th St. Bakery
SUBJECT: Light
Another year.
Another birthday.
I am now 8 and 40.
(it sounds better that way)
We had sushi for supper and stopped for ice cream.
A mother-daughter selfie.
What more could I want?
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
-R.E. Shay
TIME: 5:49 PM
PLACE: Yard
SUBJECT: Rabbit
I think this is the rabbit that the dog chases each time she goes into the yard.
The rabbit is much faster than Oreo.
I don’t think there is much chance of her ever catching it.
Henry J. Waternoose: Our city is counting on you to collect those screams. Without scream, we have no power. Yes, it's dangerous work, and that's why I need you to be at your best. I need scarers who are confident, tenacious, tough, intimidating. I need scarers like... like... James P. Sullivan.
Monsters Inc., Pixar Animation, 2001
TIME: 3:24 PM
PLACE: East St. Louis, IL
SUBJECT: Metro East Industries
(Railroad Equipment Supplier)
Every time I drive by this building, I think of the Monsters Inc. logo.
I am always disappointed when I do not see monsters entering the building.
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
William Cowper (English Poet, 1731-1800)
TIME: 3:54 PM
PLACE: Garden Center
SUBJECT: Plumed Cockscomb
The husband and I made a visit to the garden center late this afternon.
I am ready to plant some flowers.
“Let’s begin by taking a smallish nap or two.”
Winnie the Pooh
TIME: 4:08 PM
PLACE: Living room
SUBJECT: Jack
A perfect Saturday includes a nap.
No matter how awkward the sleeping position.
"Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is never try.”
Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, “Burns’ Heir”, Season 5, Episode 99, Apr 14, 1994
TIME: 5:30 PM
PLACE: St. Louis, MO
SUBJECT: Center for Advanced Medicine Sign
I had an appointment to donate platelets after work today.
I drove to St. Louis.
Filled out the questionnaire.
They pricked my finger to get a hemoglobin level.
It wasn’t high enough!
WTH?
It was a 12.0 and the minimum to donate was a 12.5
That really upset me.
So, on the way home, I bought these.
I am re-scheduled me for next Friday.
“I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw”
“Hamlet,” Act II, Scene 2. William Shakespeare
TIME: 4:03 PM
PLACE: Work parking lot
SUBJECT: Cooper’s Hawk
As I was leaving work, I saw this guy in the grassy area between the parking lot and the highway.
I had passed him, but decided to take his picture and slowly backed up.
I fumbled for my camera which was lost in the black hole that is also known as my purse.
Finally, I found it and was able to take this one shot.
Then, a co-worker’s car drove past me.
He quickly flew away before I could snap anymore photos.
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
~Thomas Sowell
TIME: 9:18 AM
PLACE: Sheraton Hotel
SUBJECT: Water Glass
I attended our quarterly All-Employee Breakfast/Meeting this morning.
No Kindle Fires were given out this time.
That’s okay.
I’m good with the breakfast.
“The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.”
Dave Barry (American Writer and Humorist best known for his weekly newspaper column. b.1947)
TIME: 6:04 PM
PLACE: Front porch
SUBJECT: Lumber
Cedar - on the left - and other lumber has been purchased in order to replace some rotten steps on the front porch.
I spy an exciting weekend ahead.
Calvin: “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
– “Calvin & Hobbes” Bill Watterson
TIME: 7:35 PM
PLACE: Kitchen
SUBJECT: Broken Fiesta and broken vintage Pyrex
Poor Stella.
Her day started out with the dog eating her breakfast (an omelet)
School wasn’t that great.
It ended with 2 broken plates and 1 broken bowl.
“You’re only as deep as your most recent inspirational quote”
TIME: 7:42 PM
PLACE: Target parking lot
SUBJECT: Sky and parking lot lights
Another trip to Target.
Another evening sky.
Another Monday morning tomorrow.
Yuck.
“I own prom!”
–Blair, Gossip Girl
TIME: 5:50 PM
PLACE: Grand Basin, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO
SUBJECT: Prom goers
They all clean up so nicely.
Claudia’s date is Tom S. – he is an exchange student from India. His host family lives down the street and he attends her high school.
TIME: 6:47 PM
PLACE: Jack-in-the-Box Drive Thru
SUBJECT: House sparrow
I may or may not have purchased the 2 for 99 cents tacos at Jack-in-the-Box tonight.
While waiting in the drive-thru line, I snapped this picture of a sparrow.
TIME: 1925
PLACE: Lake Christine
SUBJECT: L-R, (sitting) Mary Mercurio-Tedesco, (standing) Saverio Tedesco, Rose Sansone-Capone, Joseph Capone, (peeking L-R), Edna Tedesco-Caponi, Teresa Capone
Love this photo of my paternal grandmother as a teenager being silly with her parents. (Edna, Mary and Saverio).
It looks like my great-grandmother Mary is pregnant with her youngest daughter, Marie.
Great-Aunt Marie is celebrating her 90th birthday this year.
*~*~*
Joseph Capone is not only my 2nd great-grand uncle on my paternal grandmother’s side (he is Mary’s maternal uncle), but he is also my 1st cousin, 3 times removed through my paternal grandfather’s side.
It’s a twisted family tree.
Rex: I'm going for fearsome here, but I just don't feel it. I'm think I'm just coming off as annoying.
Toy Story (1995), Pixar Animation Studios
TIME: 6:21 PM
PLACE: Front yard
SUBJECT: Dinosaur & flower
It’s Tax Day, so here is a photo of a T-Rex with a dandelion.
You’re welcome.
“Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.”
Rene Descartes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Scientist, 1596-1650)
TIME: 4:45 PM
PLACE: Flying J
SUBJECT: Gas pump totals
I had to stop and get gas on the way home.
My fill-up numbers made me strangely giddy.
Donkey: You know what ELSE everybody likes? Parfaits! Have you ever met a person, you say, "Let's get some parfait," they say, "Hell no, I don't like no parfait."? Parfaits are delicious!
Shrek (2001), DreamWorks Animation
TIME: 6:26 PM
PLACE: School
SUBJECT: Fruit & yogurt parfait
The Juniors are working on their “Simple Meals” badge.
Tonight, they made a simple breakfast – fruit & yogurt parfaits.
“You've gotten in through the transom
and you can't get out
till Monday morning or, worse,
till the cops come.”
Philip Levine (b. 1928), U.S. poet. To a Child Trapped in a Barber Shop (l. 1–4).
TIME: 6:36 PM
PLACE: Kitchen
SUBJECT: Transom window
It was overcast, but otherwise a fairly nice spring day.
I opened the transom window to let in the fresh air.
“Blessed is the mother who gives birth to a brewer.”
Czech saying
TIME: 11:00-11:48 AM
PLACE: Schlafly Tap Room, St. Louis, MO
SUBJECT: Tour
The husband and I were invited to go on a tour of the Schlafly Tap Room facility.
There was tasting of several varieties of beers involved.
It's been one week since you looked at me
Cocked your head to the side and said I'm angry
Barenaked Ladies – “One Week” 1998, Stunt.
TIME: 6:07 PM
PLACE: Backyard
SUBJECT: Crabapple blossoms
It’s amazing what a week of warm weather will do.
I’m not angry about the weather anymore.
"Nōlī turbāre circulōs meōs!"
"Do not disturb my circles!"
Reportedly the last words of Archimedes, said to a Roman soldier who, despite being given orders not to, killed Archimedes during the conquest of Syracuse; as quoted in World Literature: An Anthology of Human Experience (1947) by Arthur Christy, p. 655.
TIME: 5:45 PM
PLACE: Downtown
SUBJECT: Bank building windows
I always liked this building’s windows.
My kids always called it the “Bubble window building”
I do not know when it was originally built.
However I know that it’s been around since at least 1965.
I found it in that year’s city directory as a listed as Citizen’s Bank.
"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
TIME: 6:33 PM
PLACE: Library
SUBJECT: Capital Pear tree
This pretty tree grows in front of the library.
I bet the blooms won’t be like this for long.
We are suppose to have storms the next few days.
“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
Steve Martin (American Comedian, Writer, Producer, Actor and Musician. b.1945)
TIME: 7:08 PM
PLACE: Lincoln Theatre
SUBJECT: Stella
It was her last day of spring break.
We finally made it to the movies.
Better late than never!
“Cages are good. My heart is in my rib cage, and love is in my heart. We should put more things in cages, like politicians.”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
TIME: 5:43 PM
PLACE: Front yard
SUBJECT: Sprouting Peonies
More signs of spring!
The peonies are growing taller.
Time to place the tomato cages.
TIME: 1:13 PM
PLACE: Front yard
SUBJECT: The kids
The Easter Bunny left bunny ears in all of the baskets!
Oh how I love my kids.
They put up with all of their mother’s idiosyncrasies.
“I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.”
― Millard Kaufman, Bowl of Cherries
TIME: 11:37 AM
PLACE: Backyard
SUBJECT: Crabapple
It is finally budding.
About time.
TIME: 8:23 PM
PLACE: Around town
SUBJECT: “No Parking” sign
I liked the shadows of the words painted on the window.
We parked there for about 15 minutes while we procured our ice cream.
No window is going to tell us what to do.
We are such rebels.
Tim: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit.
King Arthur: Ohh.
Tim: That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
Sir Robin: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!
Tim: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
TIME: 6:06 PM
PLACE: Supermarket
SUBJECT: Rabbit cake
I would never buy this cake for Easter.
I’d be too afraid it would kill me.
And my bones would be strewn about its lair.
"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret".
Henry Youngman
TIME: 9:31 AM
PLACE: Work
SUBJECT: Roses
He sent these to my work today.
And tonight, we’re going out for steak.
Sometimes?
He’s a keeper.
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