In last month's Actualité, (a Newsweek-type magazine from Québec that I've subscribed to off and on over the years), this cartoon caught my eye:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS_TVqCQGoHjRetKZLRiY-6VJoWC3vDpx_usCu9FbZavmVru8wc1Qgy3olLMs-bZxrKLJlr67vgO-cCv0xSAssTt1q-ViFmpzlc1H-RLu5f5UDJ6wLqBPF9yK-Q-EyPipUaUdbCeD6ADg/s400/tree+planting+actualite+mai+2009.jpg)
...self-congratulatory tree-planting, (look! it's green!), a metaphor...
Now that it's summer, I've had a bit of time to try out some more photo-editting features...
Back in June 2001, my wife and I were able to visit the French Mediterranean island of Corsica.
Here's a 'stitched-together' panorama of a couple of photos--a 'land's-end' view of the Pointe de la Parata promontory, several miles west of the capital city Ajaccio.
![](http://regulus2.azstarnet.com/galleries/photos/39203.jpg)
...and from June of fifteen years ago, another stitched-together panorama of a view that can, alas, no longer be had: looking from the rooftop observation deck of the World Trade Center in New York, east over the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge over Brooklyn Heights:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_tYqXFoGn54wNv5Xuwlaxy7Sj7OQVw97uGcGMqBzor7T6DuIWKoRF8ky_wR28mBPi-aLhYDsL6UBA4IQ-XIzhKKmCXW4TZFIBrBvJRnDT-yB1fHFWuaW6WYS1q68059y1rncIaBmzM3c/s400/panorama+toward+Brooklyn+from+WTC+summer+1994.jpg)
...and from the same now-inexistent platform, which stood 1300 feet above Lower Manhattan, looking north toward mid-town Manhattan and the Empire State building, which is, once again, the tallest structure in New York City:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzBoV_0uigg98BcI1bu8gylpmvmm0YJPCF-ctv8ambqdY3MMMYS4q7Kz5k7EwoozPw6WpKndirIr_kz_5X-BJC05cHO_z-zFg98efvbwrTJbYezMA2qu6wEeJ6Rge8KUYZk_9ID6Evwck/s400/view+from+world+trade+center+north+to+midtown+manhattan+summer+1994.jpg)
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...neither here nor there,
while running some errands this morning, I heard an interview on the radio with the author of an article that appeared in the NY Times a couple of weeks ago.
He's a motorcycle-repair-shop-guy-with-a-Ph.D.
A bit long, but well worth it...
As a teacher, I feel like his voice needs to be heard more clearly,
especially in school counseling offices...
...our upcoming move to the "javelina house," as a friend of ours (E.) put it, is less than three weeks away; time to start packing!
...our upcoming move to the "javelina house," as a friend of ours (E.) put it, is less than three weeks away; time to start packing!
My wife and I were realizing that this will be our tenth address.
(The process of getting ready to move to, moving to, then moving back from Nicaragua involved several addresses in just a couple-year period.)
And really (no, really) we don't even like moving...
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