By now I am sure that you realize how we love Halloween over in the Piercing Ken Creative Command and for the last few years I have been doing a post here on the website that simply showcases some of the spooky decorations or scenes that I have observed while exploring our always interesting Metropolis. With that being said, here is this years installment. Enjoy and uhm, watch your back in the darker alleys.
Just a quick note to let you know that today is Black Cat Appreciation Day and since I have two such lovely felines in the creative command HQ, I wanted to give them their moment in the sun. I was lucky enough to catch them just before mealtime because they will nap after that and not enjoy being disturbed by that big human who feeds them and cleans the litter box. Pictured from left to right is Spooke and Shadow. Shadow is a rescue that has been with me for thirteen and a half years now and was hanging around my parents old house in Brooklyn now so long ago. She is the smaller one in the photo.
Spooke is actually her offspring and is now thirteen plus years old. Yes, Shadow was a young momma cat when I took her in an she has a great love of people even in her elder years. Now its time to let them enjoy the rest of Black Cat Appreciation Day and have treats and sleep once they are done eating supper. Love your pets if you have them.
It’s Independence Day 2015 my friends and as per usual I am here once again with a few images that reflect a sense of pride in these United States and in the support of the red, white and blue American Flag. Let’s get right down to it. First up is a great and massive flag that waves over the streets of Newburgh, NY where I just visited some friends.
I have to apologize to my buddy who always has to deal with my sudden bursts of photographic mania when we are driving around in his region. I can only imagine how that can be. Sorry dude but its for good use as you see here 🙂
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Today is Flag Day here in the good ole United States of America and one of the things that we find most proud residents of the country doing is showcasing an American Flag somewhere. It might be hanging proudly in your front yard or from a window in your apartment. Perhaps its even a simple lapel pin, but on this day the red, white and blue should always ring true somewhere.
Over the past few years of this blogs existence I’ve penned narratives about numerous holidays or special occasion days but this one is the very first for Flag Day and with that in mind I needed a special photograph. The image below features a very keen flag patch that was made by my late Grandmother back when she was heavily into her arts and crafts. She really made a lot of cool things to be quite honest, and when I saw this in a box of special keepsakes that I had I knew it should be my image for Flag Day. I was glad that I re-discovered this and that I still had it because it brought back special memories. Okay readers that is it for now, stay awesome and I will see you with the next whatever it is soon for sure.
Learn more about Flag Day via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Day_%28United_States%29
Yesterday was Memorial Day and Bay Ridge was once again host to the King’s County Memorial Day Parade. This would be the 148th edition of this parade and it was great to be around the neighborhood that morning with nothing else to do except focus my time on honoring the men and women who’s service and sacrifice have helped keep this country safe and free. It was an early starting parade, at 11am to be precise and would be led off by the Rolling Thunder motorcycle club. I grabbed my usual spot on the corner of 92nd Street and Third Avenue and snapped away for your own enjoyment if you could not be there with us. I’ll start off with the video of the Rolling Thunder and then get right into a whole lot of photographs. Sit back, get a coffee or something else to relax you and enjoy the presentation.
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