games
A generic photo of Canadian children participating in a potato sack race. Source: "My Delicious Autumn"The NYC Parks Department is sponsoring a “Play Brooklyn” event, August 30 (Tuesday) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Salt Marsh Nature Center, 3302 Avenue U at East
This is the same itty-bitty culprit that hovered over MCU Park, and all of the Western Hemisphere, I think, during “Sheepshead Bites Night [/photos-sheepshead-bites-night-mcu-park/]” last week… the one which caused, according to one spectator I overheard in the crowd, only ‘the third game in 10 years’ to be rained out
Photo by Yura Dashevsky.
Do you guys and gals actually get the lyrical [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJI8xT0Nn00&feature=related] references [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVCDZaApwV8&feature=related] I [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkcYuX921B4&feature=related] drop [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljtYMdJC_Yo&
bobby norris
Avid Sheepshead Bay fisherman Robert "Bobby" Norris. Source: Staten Island Advance> “Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.” > ~Herbert Hoover It always makes me sad when another piece of our history
Perhaps the most oft-repeated sound bite heard before, during and after the “ Sheepshead Bites Night @ MCU Park [/bites-event-cyclones-to-host-sheepshead-bites-night-august-19-discounted-tickets/] ” this past Friday — a wonderful, if not completely serendipitous occasion, which brought to mind a favorite Yiddish expression: “Mensch tracht un Gott lacht” — “People plan and God laughs.” I am sure a
Photo by ShadowLock, who just loves clouds [/morning-mug-sexy-skies/].
bona weiss
Photo courtesy of Bona WeissAccomplished photographer, filmmaker and Sheepshead Bites reader Bona Weiss [http://www.bonaweiss.com/index.html?url=http://bweisssiteblog.blogspot.com/] contacted us about a cool project he’d been working on: > A few years back, I started experimenting with 360 degree panoramas and took a
Sent in by a reader with the following note: “[M]y name is JoAnne, (Georgia’s daughter) I saw this beautiful cloud when I got off the train & thought I would share it.” Photo by JoAnne, Georgia’s daughter.
arkady nabatov
Image courtesy of reader Niklas M.’Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.Beware the Jabberwock, my son!The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shunThe frumious Bandersnatch!” — Excerpt
Photo by Randy Contello.
garage sales
We received the above notice for a yard garage sale going on this weekend, and since it’s summertime, and last Sunday was a complete washout due to the massive torrential soakage we endured, I thought it seemed like a cool thing to alert people to. And wait, what is