Perigee Moon

In honor of this weekend's perigee moon, the largest of this year, a poem from one of my favorite collections of Mother Goose rhymes, illustrated by Charles Addams (click image to view larger):

Girls and boys, 

Come out to play.

The moon does shine

As bright as day.

Come with a hoop,

Come with a call,

Come with a good will,

Or not at all.

Bathing Beauties

I grew up swimming competitively, and Esther Williams was one of the only female swimming stars on my radar. Since she passed away last week I've been re-watching one of my favorite Esther Williams homages, the fantastic dream sequence from The Great Muppet Caper:



Here's a montage of water scenes from Esther's films:



They're well worth watching, and great for beating the summer heat!

Bringing in the May

Monty Python celebrate the first of May, 1971.

Happy May Day to you!

The April Witch

"It's spring, thought Cecy. I'll be in every living thing in the world tonight.

Now she inhabited neat crickets on the tar-pool roads, now prickled in dew on an iron gate... The wind whipped her away over fields and meadows. She saw the warm spring lights of cottages and farms glowing with twilight colors."

- from Ray Bradbury's "The April Witch," a perfect story for a spring night.

Happy Easter!

Desert blooms to brighten your Easter...

In Like a Lion

John Belushi explains the entrance of March (Saturday Night Live, March 1976).

Happy Groundhog Day!

If Candlemas be fair and bright,

Winter has another flight.

If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,

Winter will not come again.

Wishing you a lovely day whatever the weather!