A View from the Window:

A View from the Window

One year … and one day of snow.

First section of photographs taken from June 11, 2023 to June 11, 2024.

It didn’t snow for another 6 months.

Then, on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, at 6:30am, we awoke to one day of snow …

April 22 is Earth Day.

We used to have 4 distinct seasons.

Not anymore.

Climate change is real and a threat to us all.

Weather events around the world are becoming more unpredictable, erratic, extreme and destructive.

Value and protect the environment, wildlife, and pollinators.

Learn how to reduce carbon emissions.

Observe. Conserve. Preserve. Recycle. Reduce. Reuse. Save.

We only have one world.

Make a positive difference, before it’s too late.

Make every day Earth Day.

Video created by Jack Kost.
2024.

Music credit:

Ethereal Relaxation, by Kevin MacLeod.

On this day in music history - Unspoken, by Jami Sieber (2008):

The album Unspoken,

by Jami Sieber,

was released on April 22, 2008.

Born on this day – Louise Glück:

Louise Glück

Writer

April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023

Credits:

Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The House on Marshland (1975); Descending Figure (1980); The Triumph of Achilles (1885); Mock Orange (1985); Ararat (1990); The Wild Iris (1992); Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994); Meadowlands (1997); Vita Nova (1999); The Seven Ages (2001); Aboriginal Landscape (2013); Averno (2006); A Village Life (2009); Poems: 1962-2012 (2012); Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014); Firstborn (1968); American Originality: Essays on Poetry (2017); Winter Recipes from the Collective (2021); The Drowned Children (1968); For Jane Meyers (1979); The Triumph of Achilles (1985); The Wild Iris (1992); The Red Poppy (1992); Nostos (1996); The Empty Glass (2001).

Born on this day – Marie-José Nat:

Marie-José Nat

Actress

April 22, 1940 – October 10, 2019

Born on this day – Jason Miller:

Jason Miller

Writer

Actor

Director

April 22, 1939 – May 13, 2001

Born on this day – Peggy Knudsen:

Peggy Knudsen

Actress

April 22, 1923 – July 11, 1980

Credits:

A Stolen Life (1946); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); Bat Masterson (1959–1961); Betrayed Women (1955); City Detective (1955); Copper Canyon (1950); General Electric Theater (1960); Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955); Half Past Midnight (1948); Hilda Crane (1956); Howie (1962); Humoresque (1946); Istanbul (1957); Lock Up (1959); Mr. & Mrs. North (1953); My Wild Irish Rose (1947); Never Say Goodbye (1946); Panic! (1957); Perilous Waters (1948); Perry Mason (1958–1959); Pete and Gladys (1960); Racket Squad (1951); Roses Are Red (1947); Shadow of a Woman (1946); So This Is Hollywood (1955); Stallion Road (1947); Target (1958); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1958–1961); The Big Sleep (1946); The Bob Cummings Show (1955); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The Charles Farrell Show (1956); The Eve Arden Show (1958); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1956); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1955); The George Burns Show (1958); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1957); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1958); The Loretta Young Show (1955); The Magical World of Disney (1961); The Millionaire (1956); The People's Choice (1955–1956); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Real McCoys (1958); The Thin Man (1957); The Unfaithful (1947); Tightrope (1959); Tombstone Territory (1959); Trouble Preferred (1948); Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946); Unchained (1955); Your Show Time (1949).

Born on this day – William Jay Smith:

William Jay Smith

Writer

April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015

Credits:

Alain Bosquet (1995); Army brat: a memoir (1980); Around My Room (2000); Boy Blue's Book of Beasts (1957); Celebration at Dark (1950); His Collected Poems: 1939–1989 (1990); Ho for a Hat! (1964 / revised edition published in 1989); Laughing Time (1955); Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense (1980); My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams (2012); Poems (1947); Poems of a Multimillionaire by Valéry Larbaud (1955); Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue (1956); Songs of C, Federico García Lorca (1994); The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems (2000); The Straw Market (2006); The streaks of the tulip: selected criticism (1972); The Tin Can and Other Poems (1966); The World Below the Window: Poems 1937–1997 (1998); Two Plays by Charles Bertin: Christopher Columbus and Don Juan (1970); Typewriter Town (1960).

Born on this day – Byron Haskin:

Byron Haskin

Director

April 22, 1899 – April 16, 1984

Credits:

A Dispatch from Reuters (1940); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935); Across the Pacific (1926); Across the Pacific (1942); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Alcoa Theatre (1957); All American (1940); All This, and Heaven Too (1940); Always in My Heart (1942); Armored Command (1961); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); As the Earth Turns (1934); Black Fury (1935); Black Waters (1929); Bobbed Hair (1925); Broken Chains (1922); Brother Orchid (1940); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); Bullet Scars (1942); Captain Sindbad (1963); Captains of the Clouds (1942); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Caught in the Fog (1928); City for Conquest (1940); Clothes Make the Pirate (1925); Colleen (1936); Conquest of Space (1955); Denver & Rio Grande (1952); Desperate Journey (1942); Dive Bomber (1941); Dodge City (1939); Don Juan (1926); Dust Be My Destiny (1939); Flight Angels (1940); Flowing Gold (1940); Four Wives (1939); From the Earth to the Moon (1958); Gambling on the High Seas (1940); Ginsberg the Great (1927); Glad Rag Doll (1929); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); Green Light (1937); High Sierra (1940); His Majesty O'Keefe (1954); His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925); Historias para no dormir (1966); Hollywood (1980); Hurricane's Gal (1922); I Married a Doctor (1936); I Walk Alone (1947); Invisible Stripes (1939); Irish Hearts (1927); It All Came True (1940); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); King of the Lumberjacks (1940); Lilly Turner (1933); Little Big Shot (1935); Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1954); Madonna of Avenue A (1929); Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948); Manpower (1941); Man-Woman-Marriage (1921); Matinee Ladies (1927); Millionaires (1926); On Approval (1930); On Thin Ice (1925); On Trial (1928); On Your Toes (1939); One Embarrassing Night (1930); Passage to Marseille (1944); Personal Maid's Secret (1935); Plunder (1930); Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964); Santa Fe Trail (1940); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); September Storm (1960); Side Streets (1934); Silver City (1951); Silver Dollar (1932); Slander the Woman (1923); Slim (1937); South of Suez (1940); Stage Struck (1936); Star Trek (1966); Strings (1933); Studio 57 (1957); Submarine D-1 (1937); Tarzan's Peril (1951); The Adventures of Long John Silver (1957); The Adventures of McGraw (1957); The Boss (1956); The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941); The Californians (1957–1958); The Deadline (1931); The Fighting 69th (1940); The First Texan (1956); The Golden Cocoon (1925); The Great Lie (1941); The Great Sex War (1969); The Guilty Generation (1931); The Little Savage (1959); The Magical World of Disney (1955); The Naked Jungle (1954); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968); The Outer Limits (1963–1964); The Perfect Specimen (1937); The Power (1968); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); The Redeeming Sin (1929); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Sea Beast (1926); The Sea Hawk (1940); The Sea Wolf (1941); The Singing Fool (1928); The Siren (1927); The Speckled Band (1931); The Wagons Roll at Night (1941); The War of the Worlds (1953); The World's a Stage (1922); They Drive by Night (1940); This Our Life (1942); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Tons of Money (1930); Too Late for Tears (1949); Torrid Zone (1940); Treasure Island (1950); Truck Busters (1943); Virginia City (1940); Warpath (1951); We Are Not Alone (1939); When a Man Loves (1927); Where the Worst Begins (1925); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Wild Boys of the Road (1933); Wild Harvest (1947); Wings for the Eagle (1942); Wings of the Navy (1939); Wolf's Clothing (1927); World of Giants (1959).

Born on this day – Henry Fielding:

Henry Fielding

Writer

April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754

Credits:

A Journey from This World to the Next (1749); Amelia (1751); An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (aka Shamela) (1741); An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751); An Old Man Taught Wisdom (1735); Grub Street Opera (1731); Historical Register for the Year 1736 (1737); Jonathan Wild (aka The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great) (1743); Joseph Andrews (aka The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742); Joseph Andrews / Shamela (1961); Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755); Legal Writings (1919); Miscellanies by Henry Fielding, Esq (1743); Pasquin (1736); Plays and Poems (1919); Rape upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in his own Trap (aka The Coffee-House Politician) (1730); The Author's Farce (1730); The Collected Works of Henry Fielding (1997); The Complete Works of Henry Fielding (1902); The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding (1993); The Covent Garden Journal (1752); The Female Husband (1746); The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (aka Tom Jones) (1749); The Jacobite's Journal and Related Writings (1974); The Modern Husband (1732); The Old Debauchees (1732); The True Patriot (1745); The Wedding Day (1743); The Works of Henry Fielding (1900); Tragedy of Tragedies (1731).

Earth Day – April 22:

April 22 is Earth Day.
Value and protect the environment, wildlife and pollinators.
Climate change is real.
Learn how to reduce carbon emissions.
Conserve.
Observe.
Preserve.
Recycle.
Reduce.
Reuse.
Save.

Earth laughs in flowers.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Richard Eberhart, on writing:

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

- Richard Eberhart.

Happy Birthday …

… to my favorite actor, Jack Nicholson.

Born April 22, 1937, he turned 80 today!

I’ve been a lifelong fan of his movies and I’ll be blogging on my favorites in the future.

He made the role of Jack Torrance, in The Shining (1980), his own.

Happy Birthday, Jack!