View from the canoe -- Common Mergansers are swimming around on Middle Foy's Lake. A swift-flying Tern was skimming over the waves. Mallards and Goldeneyes dominated. We know there are Griebes nesting on the Southeast corner, but we didn't want to disturb them.

Funk Master Bernie Worrell at: Theater X-Net

Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

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Charity Alert: Keep that resolution as Summer approaches! Click on The Hunger Site every day.

Media Watch: Yes, they did it -- all afternoon on Mother's Day,
MTV showed solid re-runs of their insult-joke competition YoMama.
What else was on the TV? Senator Russ Feingold was addressing the National Press Club on CSPAN -- quite a relief after the Sunday morning lie & spin shows on the other "news" channels. Sycophancy towards the Radical Right makes very strange bedfellows. When I saw Rupert Murdoch and Hillary Clinton "making nice" yesterday, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, or throw up. DAY - UM! a decade ago Rupert's employees were accusing Hillary of MURDER, and he encouraged them to pile on those unfounded accusations for the sake of ratings.

In The Community: The actual AUCTION of Miniatures is this Friday, May 19, 2006 at the Hockaday Museum of Art. We are showing and selling-off some larger pieces this year, but the real miniatures are exquisite -- and worth many looks before they find new owners!


An interested group of patrons at the Hockaday Museum's Miniatures & More Preview Reception on May 5th