Things You Might Spy In A Small Town Parade (203/366)

The American Legion Bagpipe Band


A Case Tripl Range tractor.


A tow truck, towing a tow truck, towing a tow truck with a tow truck on it’s bed, towing a Kawasaki Mule with a toy tow truck in its bed.

A man riding a camel-bicycle.  No? Not unusual enough for you?


How about a man riding a hotdog?

A German cuckoo clock float spitting out bubbles from the rear and featuring a German Band.


The accordion player stopped playing just long enough to give a big smile and a wave.

TIME:  6-7 PM
PLACE:  Small town America
SUBJECT:  A parade

Plenty of candy was thrown.  After it was over, everyone headed down to the City park for beer, food, games, rides and music.

Flashback (202/365)

Gloria Stivic: Robin's burning incense. I think it smells nice.
Archie Bunker: It smells like a house of Ill Refute.

All in the Family: Season 1, Episode 7. Mike's Hippie Friends Come to Visit. 23 Feb. 1971.

TIME:  8:18 PM
PLACE:  Dining room
SUBECT:  Incense

I decided to make the house smell nice with some Ramakrishnananda Hand Rolled Incense in the “Hari” Amber & Sandalwood scent.  It’s giving HH flashbacks to the Seventies. 

Withered (201/366)

"Flowers are wilting
My enthusiasm, too
Only weeds survive."

- Gaia Garden

TIME:  6:55 PM
PLACE:  Front yard
SUBJECT:  Black-Eyed Susan

Another picture of a victim of this summer’s excessive heat.  I had planted new perennials under the maple tree this spring – I’m thinking they are not going to make it this year.

The Dry Grass of July (200/366)

Down goeth the grass, soon wrought to withered hay; Ay me alas, ay me alas, that beauty needs must yield And princes pass, as grass doth fade away.

Thomas Proctor (fl. C. 1578), British poet. A Proper Sonnet, How Time Consumeth All Earthly Things (attributed to Proctor) (l. 2-4). . . Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.

TIME:  6:52 PM
PLACE:  Front yard
SUBJECT:  Our lawn

The bad news…the heat and drought conditions have really taken a toll on our (and everybody else’s) lawn.
The good news…HH doesn’t have to mow in this weather.

Tracks & Ties (199/366)

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (American 34th President (1953-61). 1890-1969)

TIME:  8:03 PM
PLACE:  Down the street
SUBJECT:  Railroad tracks

The two girls are spending the night at my cousin’s house.  I passed over these tracks on the way there and back.
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Also, this is an early birthday present for Dana.

Ouch (198/366)

“It's not just about bandages and boo-boos anymore.”

Gail Buck

TIME:  7:17 PM
PLACE:  DramaQueen’s bedroom
SUBJECT:  Bandages on DQ’s arm

DQ had her high school examination today.  Contrary to popular belief, she’s considered normal in her physical aspects.  She did get three shots.  Two in the left arm and one in the right.  Since she is left-handed, I guess it should have been the other way.  I hope she survives.

Tomato Harvest (197/366)

"A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins."

Laurie Colwin, ‘Home Cooking’

TIME:  10:11 PM
PLACE:  Kitchen
SUBJECT:  Homegrown grape tomatoes

HH picked these this morning – we had some on our salad this evening.  There’s nothing like the taste of homegrown tomatoes.