25 Friday Dec 2020
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I took the following photos on October 1st, 2019 but did not post them as I temporarily stopped blogging to concentrate on finishing my second book. Now, more than a year later, here they are. A large group of Great Egrets and Snowy Egrets (with the black bills) was taking off at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. Never had I seen so many flying together.
Flying Egrets.
Flying Egrets.
Flying Egrets.
Flying Egrets.
22 Tuesday Dec 2020
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The Siege of An Loc is the story of the defense of An Loc in 1972 during the Vietnam War. It is also a love story between a South Vietnamese soldier, Trung, and Ly, a student, daughter of a rubber plantation owner. As Trung struggles to defend his country, he finds himself falling for the beautiful Ly, but do they have a chance for happiness in the midst of war? We also see the evil of communism especially personified in the one of the characters, and two brothers are reunited, one from North Vietnam and one from South Vietnam.
I learned so much about the Vietnam War from this book. When I was in grade school and high school in the U.S. in the 70s and 80s, they didn’t teach us much about it. I just knew my uncle died in this war at the age of 20, and I…
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19 Saturday Dec 2020
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Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts was completed in 2017. Since that time, I have been meaning to go there and photograph it, but because it was so close to home, guess what, it took me three years to finally do it. The following photos show what it looked like in early afternoon last Sunday.
Lewis Center for the Arts: Wallace Dance Building and Theater.
Lewis Center for the Arts: Wallace Dance Building.
Lewis Center for the Arts: Administrative Building.
Lewis Center for the Arts: Administrative Building.
Lewis Center for the Arts: inner plaza.
Lewis Center for the Arts: Administrative Building and Music Building on the right. In the Music Building you can see some individual practice rooms that are suspended and acoustically isolated from one another.
Lewis Center for the Arts: side of Theater Building.
I did not go inside any of the buildings which were built with esoteric materials including 21-million-year-old Lecce Stone from Italy. I would have liked to see how geothermal wells have been used to heat and cool the complex, but maybe another time. This new art center took $330 million dollar to build, including costs associated with relocating the Dinky train station and a WaWa convenience store pictured below.
Dinky train station and Wawa store.
06 Sunday Dec 2020
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Starlings standing in Osprey nest: “No evidence whatsoever that we stole this nest!”
05 Saturday Dec 2020
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This week has been rainy with only one sunny day in the middle. I drove to the refuge and by the time I arrived the sun was out but the clouds were many. The Great Blue Heron that used to stand by a sluice gate was now standing by the water.
Sunning Great Blue Heron.
There was a flash of white among the dried reeds. A Great Egret took off as soon as it saw me, but I managed to take a few shots of it flying away.
Great Egret taking off.
Great Egret in flight.
Great Egret in flight.
Toward the end of Wildlife Drive one tree still had its leaves on.
Autumn scene at Edwin B. Fosrsythe National Wildlife Refuge.
02 Wednesday Dec 2020
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Christmas Cactus.
