These doors are up by Central Park. Mansions like these can be found on both sides of Central Park. Many are from the gilded age era which extended roughly from 1870 to 1900. We just finished watching the Gilded Age series on HBO.
W 73 Street Doors
New York City
High Line
A few early Spring flowers on the High Line in Manhattan.
Little Island
Little Island @Pier55 in the Hudson River, New York City on a misty morning in March.
Dinka’s Vocabulary
Dinka’s Vocabulary DOB 4/29/2003 – 3/11/2022 9:15 am.
I forgot some, I’m sure. It is so quiet without him. Dinka knew when to use these words. He isn’t here for us to scramble an egg for breakfast or to share our dinners with. He was such a character. He liked to snuggle on my stomach. Tickle himself with his spoon. Shake balls with bells inside and ring a bell for treats. He liked fancy cheeses, meat, grapes, lobster legs and more. He was so sweet.
- So sorry
- Owe! Don’t bite
- Bad boy
- Baby boy
- Good boy
- I love you
- Hello, hello baby
- Hello precious
- Hello Marc (when Marc came home)
- Mummy (calls me to come)
- Hello Mummy
- Sherry
- Want to come to Sherry?
- You wanna come to Sherry?
- Marc (especially when Marc fails to wake up)
- Bye bye (when we left home)
- Here we go
- Oh! Shit! (When we dropped things)
- Owe! Oh! Shit Dinka
- Well? (in a demanding tone)
- What you doing?
- Stop that
- Peeka boo
- I see you
- OK
- Uh oh
- Ah haa (agreement sound every time Marc told me something)
- Hugh?
- Ooph (effort grunt)
- Beep beep beep (microwave ping)
- Wee (smoke alarm)
- Laughing noise
- Achoo!
- Cough noise
- Cluck cluck (of tongue)
- Pop (noise)
- Toy
- Yum Yum
- Whee! Wh wh wheee! (like piggy commercial)
- Oink
- Quack (duck sound)
- Beek beek
- Agusta
- Hoka Hey (Lacota word)
- Meowmee (Mummy with cat meow)
- Meo oeow oew (Dinka word for come here like a cat) April 2005
- Me me me me me (fast)
- Happy birthday to (he has us trained to sing it when he plays his music toy)
- Happy bird day
- I don’t care
- Yes you are
- What do you say goose?
- Pretty bird
- Give me a kiss
- Kiss noise
- I’ll do it
- Precious
- You’re precious
- Come on precious
- Look at me
- Oh! come on
- What the heck
- Let me see your beak
- Your welcome
- Now
- All right
- You want to come up?
- Right now
- Dinka
- Dinka bird
- Dinka’s smart
- Oh! Dinka
- Come here baby
- What do you want Dinka?
- Dinka! Stop that
- Oh my God!
- What can I say?
- What do you want?
- Cuckoo (like a bird call)
- Coffee
- Cookie
- Schee or Chee (for cheese)
- Cereal
- Tell you what…
- There you are
- You want…
- You want have some more?
- Egg
- Want egg
- Dinka want egg
- I want egg, want egg
- Why you so quiet?
- What do you want to drink?
- What do you want to drink now?
- What do you want to drink, ginger ale?
- Do you want the ginger ale?
- I don’t like to drink
Sharing our Loss of Dinka
Our darling bird, Dinka died suddenly and without warning on Friday March 11, 2022. He was a 20-year-old Timneh Grey. Dinka was named after the Dinka people – Wikipedia in Africa. I indigenous people and the sound of the name. Dinka could have lived to be 40 to 70 years old.
I am trying my best to grapple with my grief and posting this was difficult. Pets become close family members. I am sure you can empathize with our loss. We buried him on the same day. I created two composite images to show where he is now.
Orchids and Other
A mix of plants that I photographed while visiting the NY Botanical Gardens.
Yellow Orchids
Yellow to greenish orchids work well on gray or a dark background.
White Orchids
White and pale cream colored orchids. One hallway in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is all white orchids.
