I noticed that creator of Woody Woodpecker, Walter Lantz, was born this week in 1899 (on 27 April). Thought I'd run a post of mine from 2008 again - for reasons which will become obvious:
An old fruit tree used to grow in our backyard, close to the house, but it was dangerously weakened by the nasty ice storm we had two or three years back; it had to be removed. Before that sad occasion a woodpecker, during the previous spring, got busy noisily making a home. My husband watched him regularly, got a series of nice shots. He put his own captions to a series of them on Flickr, but with his permission I seconded a few of the photographs and added my own captions, more fitting to an astrology blog. The photographs show a house of sorts, houses are part and parcel of astrology.
1st House. (The self)
"HI! THIS IS ME!"
2nd House (property, possessions)
"AND THIS IS MY HOUSE!"
3rd House (communication)
"HELLO Y'ALL! CAN YOU HEAR ME?"
4th House (home, mother/parent)
A MOTHER'S WORK IS NEVER DONE!
5th House (children, creativity)
"SQUAAAAAK.....FEED ME!"
6th House (hygiene, health)
"THE KIDS MAKE SUCH A MESS. TIME FOR A CLEAN-UP"
7th House (partnerships, relationships)
"WHERE'D YA GO, WENDY? - I'M WATIN' FOR YA."
8th House (sex, passion)
"DO I LOOK SEXY IN THIS?"
9th House (religion, travel)
"SHHH....THE PASTOR IS AT THE DOOR. I'M STAYING AWAY!"
10th House (work, career)
"IT'S HARD WORK HOUSE-BUILDING"
11th House (friends and wishes)
A FRIEND AT THE DOOR - "CAN I COME IN FOR A CHAT?"
12th House (seclusion)
"A BODY NEEDS TO GET AWAY FOM IT ALL SOMETIMES"
An old fruit tree used to grow in our backyard, close to the house, but it was dangerously weakened by the nasty ice storm we had two or three years back; it had to be removed. Before that sad occasion a woodpecker, during the previous spring, got busy noisily making a home. My husband watched him regularly, got a series of nice shots. He put his own captions to a series of them on Flickr, but with his permission I seconded a few of the photographs and added my own captions, more fitting to an astrology blog. The photographs show a house of sorts, houses are part and parcel of astrology.
1st House. (The self)
"HI! THIS IS ME!"
2nd House (property, possessions)
"AND THIS IS MY HOUSE!"
3rd House (communication)
"HELLO Y'ALL! CAN YOU HEAR ME?"
4th House (home, mother/parent)
A MOTHER'S WORK IS NEVER DONE!
5th House (children, creativity)
"SQUAAAAAK.....FEED ME!"
6th House (hygiene, health)
"THE KIDS MAKE SUCH A MESS. TIME FOR A CLEAN-UP"
7th House (partnerships, relationships)
"WHERE'D YA GO, WENDY? - I'M WATIN' FOR YA."
8th House (sex, passion)
"DO I LOOK SEXY IN THIS?"
9th House (religion, travel)
"SHHH....THE PASTOR IS AT THE DOOR. I'M STAYING AWAY!"
10th House (work, career)
"IT'S HARD WORK HOUSE-BUILDING"
11th House (friends and wishes)
A FRIEND AT THE DOOR - "CAN I COME IN FOR A CHAT?"
12th House (seclusion)
"A BODY NEEDS TO GET AWAY FOM IT ALL SOMETIMES"
