Ah, Rose

Remember to turn your clocks ahead one hour from when this blog posts!

It's that imposed time again: "Daylight Savings Time" until 3 November.

You would not believe how good these smell!

"Flowers in the dead of winter."

Got enough snow yet?

♡ Thinking of Tanner ♡

It's Town Meeting Day in Vermont! Yeah!

I wanna sleep in today!

Flower Party Today!

Laptops

Hallo March!

Goodbye February!

At the Garden Center...

Stained Glass Birdbath

Cacti (It's not snow)

Happy Sunday!

Hanging out on Saturday...

Marbled Godwit (oil refineries in the background) ~ Photo also by Son

American Oystercatchers in Flight (photo by Wildlife*Biologist*Son

♥ ♥ ♥ S U S A N ! ♥ ♥ ♥

Good Food Helps!

Vermont Calling...

Alan's Tulip Tree! (double click to enlarge)

Balance

Theatre Tonight!

 

 Mah*Sweetie and I have tickets to see The Heidi Chronicles at UVM tonight!

♥♥ Happy Valentine's Day! ♥♥

These (and yesterday's) are from none other than Snowflake Chocolates, one mile from my house!

Got Chocolates?

Happy Birthday, Mr. President

2013: The Year of the Snake (which began yesterday)

Sleepy Kitty (belly up in my lap!)

Barn in Snow

Snowstorm!

Plagiarism: not illegal, apparently

Years ago, Jonathan Coulton, an indie musician who has plenty of fans in our household, (took a moment out of his busy schedule to give Daughter a big hug and pose for a pic with her at Ohayocon once!) released a soft rock version of Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back". He got the proper permissions and paid the proper royalties. Last week, Fox's show Glee featured the same song on their episode Sadie Hawkins Day. Contacted, did paperwork, and made financial arrangements with Mix. But USED Coulton's unique mix. No acknowledgement in the credits, no payment to Coulton, and they didn't ask permission. Some muckety-muck on the Fox/Glee end contacted Coulton to tell him that they were on solid legal ground, and besides, Coulton should be thankful for the exposure this is giving him. Except, without publicly crediting him, how, precisely, can that be called "exposure"? Here is the post I wrote, and here's a link to Jonathan Coulton's web site. Kind of wiped out right now, but if I can manage it, I'll add a bit more explanation and links to some of the better articles I've seen on this matter.

Plagiarism vs. Copyright Infringement

Copyright should protect artists like Jonathan Coulton, not Glee & Fox

Jonathan Coulton Explains How Glee Ripped Off His Cover Song — And Why He’s Not Alone

Jonathan Coulton ‘Covers’ Glee’s Ripoff of ‘Baby Got Back,’ Puts It on iTunes, Proceeds Go to Charity

Big Puffy Snowflakes (and an Nor'easter approaching!)

My yard this past week...

This year's batch! 15 pair!

The scene in my Kitchen on Friday...

Branches

☆ It's Candlemas! ☆

Hallo, February!

Good-bye, January!

♡♡♡♡♡♡ Happy 6th Birthday, Ally Mae! ♡♡♡♡♡♡

Out at the Road

Yin/Yang

Fog

Snow on the Rhody

Cradled Snowflakes

Too cute!

A bit nippy...

How's the View?

☆☆ INAUGURATION DAY ☆☆

www.businessthinker.com

Ga. man restores MLK Bible for Obama inauguration  

ACWORTH, Ga. (AP) — A suburban Atlanta man has restored a Bible that belonged to Martin Luther King Jr. so that it can be used in President Barack Obama's inauguration. The Marietta Daily Journal reports (http://bit.ly/XhH6Qb) that Gordon Ponsford of Acworth contracted with the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change to prepare the Bible for Obama's inauguration ceremony on Monday.Ponsford said the work involved reattaching leather to the slain civil rights leader's traveling Bible.Ponsford's assistant, Julie Julian of Wildwood, compared the word to taking a raggedy doll and making it look new again.
                                                                    Information from: Marietta Daily Journal, http://mdjonline.com/

Happy Sunday!