Pocono mountains, Pennsylvania. Paul Goldfinger photo. ©
THE GREENCARDS. From their album “Weather and Water”
The song is “Time”
“Last night, I had a dream,
about a place I’d never been
Shinin’ sun on fields of gold,
could be heaven for all I know
I close my eyes and then go back again
Time is a river, rollin’ out to sea
I close my eyes and then go back again”
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A typical dangerous curbside situation in Ocean Grove. Blogfinger photo. Aug. 2018
…..and the sidewalks are often in bad shape.
OG August 2018. Blogfinger photos.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor@Blogfinger
So here is the question: If someone falls due to these dangerous sidewalks and curb-sides (including grassy strips which have plants or holes in the ground) and has an injury, who will the “slip and fall lawyer” sue? Who will be the defendant: Will it be the Township, or the CMA, or the homeowner—or all three?
Regarding the grassy strips, they are owned by the CMA but the homeowner is responsible for their care.
Just wondering.—from Grover Frank Sumatra.
ROY ORBISON:
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Ocean Township High School prom day. June 1, 2017. Photographs by Jean Bredin (Around town with Jean). Blogfinger staff. ©. Click on the images to enlarge them. Re-post June 2017.
Hi Paul,
It was the Ocean Township H.S. Prom night. June 1, 2017.
Ocean Grove’s Boardwalk seems to be the perfect spot for a portrait,
TONY BENNETT: This song won an Oscar in 1936. It was featured in the movie “Swing Time” with Fred Astaire. Jerome Kern wrote the music and Dorothy Fields the lyrics. Dorothy said that when she first heard the melody, she was so moved that she couldn’t stop crying. It is indeed so beautiful and so perfect for prom night.
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Lenox, Mass. Photograph by Paul Goldfinger. Amazing fret technique, bow control and sternocleidomastoid. This violinist (name unknown) is from the Tanglewood Music School, playing at the Brook Farm Inn; a breakfast will be her reward .
YEHUDI MENUHIN (sitting next to her in spirit) and some other musicians: It’s Bach’s ” Double Concerto in D Minor for 2 violins and strings.”
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All’s quiet and a-glow on Cookman this fine fall evening. Stephen Goldfinger, Blogfinger.net. 11/04/26. Asbury Park, NJ
Paul Desmond:
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From Paul Goldfinger, MD. Sometimes I will post official medical information which I receive from the AMA (I am a member) and which I share with the Blogfinger readers. 99% of which I post in Blogfinger.net is in my own words.
And here is a video message about Influenza: Click on “Watch video on You Tube”
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This is the hawk which startled me in my back yard today. It is a Cooper’s hawk.It might be a y young one. Click once to enlarge. Paul Goldfinger photo. 11/04/26
Paul Goldfinger, MD, Blogfinger.net. 11/04/26. Ocean Grove, NJ, USA.
It was just a few days ago that we reported on a hawk in my backyard. Sometimes it is difficult to figure out the creatures precise name. The last one we thought might have been an osprey.
This morning I was in my backyard on my phone when huge bird landed on my AC condenser, about 2 feet from me. I jumped, and the bird quickly became airborne ,landing on a low branch of a large tree across Delaware Avenue. It had a speckled white breast and a black head. It stayed still for about 20 minutes and then it flew off. But now I saw the reason why no tasty small birds have not visited our backyard in recent days.
I ran into the house to get a camera that has a zoom lens, up to 75 mm. It wasn’t what nature photographers like to use; they prefer very long lenses like 400 mm.
One time I was in our backyard when I thought it was snowing. I looked up and saw white feathers floating down. Overhead a hawk was feasting on a white bird.
AMY WINEHOUSE: (I still miss her…..PG)
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An osprey nest on a chimney near the Sanibel Island lighthouse. Florida. Paul Goldfinger photo. Feb. 2020 © Click image to enlarge the bird.
Osprey at the Tropicana Coop in Ft. Myers. 2018 © Paul Goldfinger photo.
Osprey
By George Held.
Osprey, you can see by the dawn’s
Early light
A fish ‘neath the finish of the bay
In your flight
As you circle and soar or you stall
Like a kite,
Ever ready to dive on your prey
When in sight;
Then you drop like a plummet until
You alight
On the brine with your talons outstretched
And they bite
Into scales of that silvery bass, lifting it clear
Of the bight
Of the bay with your ten-horse wings to retake
The sun’s light
And you land on your platform to tend to your nestling’s
End of night
Hunger, tearing the bass with your terrible beak
Into bite-
Sized gobbets for your fledgling to gorge on, its break-
Fast birthright
As your scion, O Osprey, you long-winged king
Of the heights.
This poem is from George Held’s first collection, Winged (1995.)
K.D. LANG
“Skylark.”
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Ocean Grove. By Paul Goldfinger. © Blogfinger.net Click once to enlarge.
FRANÇOIS PARISI “Le Parc de Plaisir” (Pleasure Park) From Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen
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Eileen. Paul Goldfinger photograph. ©. Re-post.
Elvis Presley:
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Paul Goldfinger photo. Pont du Gard in southern France. Click once to enlarge. Tri-X film collection.
Roman engineers designed this 3 tier aqueduct in the first century to provide water to the Roman colony of Nimes. It was used for centuries, but now it is mainly a tourist attraction. We posted a closeup of its structure on Blogfinger . The link is below.
After the Roman slaves finished building the aqueduct, they had a big party, and the band played this song with Annie Siegel:
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Paul Goldfinger photo. 11/03/21
THOMAS HAMPSON sings Cole Porter with the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Jack Bredin’s latest work: “Doo Wop on Main” 2021. Photo by Rob Bredin.
THE RONETTES: “Be My Baby.”
Hey Jack: Did you sing this song to Jean when you were teenagers and did you have a falsetto in those days; and a DA, peg pants, and a hot rod?
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