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I am a retired English teacher and department head, the mother of three grand mother of four, and have been married to the same man for 53 years, two years after we met at college. I taught in both middle and high schools as I really love teens and in-betweens. I was also a certified Lamaze instructor, and for a short time a volunteer chaplain at Howard County General Hospital. I am a two-time cancer survivor, ovarian (2003), and breast (2019) I was born in South Philadelphia and grew up in the 'burbs with great parents, in a bilingual household. I love soft pretzels and cheesesteaks, the Phillies, the Eagles, the Orioles, and sometimes the Ravens. I love being Mom, Aunt Kathy, Nona Kathy (Kath), and Teacher. I spend a lot of time in my gardens in the spring and summer, and in the winter I plan what I'm going to plant. I also am an avid reader, cook, photographer, lover of languages, music, and four-footed furries.

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Monday, February 21, 2011

Two!!

I had changed to go to the gym and was just about to sit down to a late breakfast when I noticed them -- not one, but two pileated woodpeckers on the pin oak on our yard.

I grabbed my camera (I really need a zoom lens) and stealthily ran outside in my shorts.  Of course as soon as I approached they flew, but I was still able to get a couple of shots deeper into the woods.


I apologize for these -- you'll have to look closely.  He's to the left of the big trunk.

This one is up in the tree...


...and then I realized how cold it was!