Fashion Accessory Series: Handbags & Purses

 If you like handbags, you will love the book

"Bags & Purses" 

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Handbags as Essential Fashion Accessory

 The photos are from the reference

encyclopedia book entitled

"Bags & Purses"

The book is in coffee-table size:

available for holiday sale at

www.amazon.com, www.bn.com,

www.walmart.com, www.xlibris.com,

and local bookstores.

Some books by Ida Tomshinsky

are available at Ebay's books section.

It will take you on the journey in history

and discovery throughout

private collections and museums' exhibitions.

Purse & Handbags Collection Display

 

Bird Story

 

Bird Story

 

This summer I was spending a lot of free time in my backyard – gardening, taking pictures of beautiful palm trees and blooming plants, and reading in the great outdoors. Besides, there were many beautiful black birds to watch in my neighborhood. I mean, by my observation, it was more than usual. I never saw as many black birds in this area as prior that July. They came in groups and in couples. Our new growing up trees became a heaven for these travel-to-south birds.

Particularly, it was one black bird that situated at the higher point of the electrical poll. It was loud, and it looked like the bird was watching me. Well, this bird took control of the enclosed territory. Meantime, I was forced out from my backyard seat because the birds simply pushed me away.

Well, the same day, I decided to go to the beach for the morning walk. I was wearing a bright open top, shorts, and running sneakers. Unfortunately, the same happened on my way to the beach along the side road. A two-pond black bird attacked me. Suddenly, I went down from a strong flop to my back. The black bird tracked me down from the treetop, followed me, and the bird body slammed me in the back with all its strength. For a moment, it felt painful; and I was scared. This exit to the beach included a new remodeled building, a pool, and new tree landscaping consisted out of beautiful tall palm trees that attracted concerned black birds.

I had one question on my mind, why? It never happened before. First, at home, and now, at the ocean sidewalk, at the ‘suppose-to-be’ the quietest time before the early afternoon. I carefully tried to avoid the trees and the street along the trees. I went around the street in south direction to another exit to the beach. All the time I was thinking about what happened to me. Why are these birds expressed this aggressive conduct? Why are they attaching people? Are they sick? Is their unusual behavior connected to the migration problems or the avion virus possibilities?

As the time past, the birds’ troubling was smoothed. One morning, I was seating in the backyard and working on editing my manuscript. My attention had been drawn to the tweeting birds – to the small brown bird, and two big black birds. Well, after all the extraordinary events, I got it. The big black birds were nesting in my neighborhood. The growing up trees attracted them in my backyard and the streets in the surrounding. They were perfect parents that protected the nests with their precious outsprings. The small brown bird was their baby bird, and the parents were taking care of their extended family.

Such a scary, but at the same time, it was a sweet eco-story that made me a victim character and a participant in the eco-scenery! Amazing, how flora and fauna both are in unity; and we, humans, caught in the middle of the birds’ affairs! The song from the sixties got in my head and was on my mind: “The sun is shining, the grass is green, and the birds are chirping for the new beginning.” The city is growing, and the ecosystem is changing too. The racoons on the beach, the seagulls of the surfside, the black birds on the top of the palm trees, and the squirrels that are visiting us almost daily make me care for trees and green space.

We are encroaching on bird habitats. There are more bird-human interactions. Wildlife experts warn that chirping bird attacks on humans are growing and are more common as people continue to trespass on bird nesting territory.

Ida Tomshinsky @ 2022

Wildlife Around You

 Photographer: Ida Tomshinsky

Photoshoot "Wildlife Around You"

Trees are Alike People

Trees are Alike People

Trees are like people.

They’re both powerful and peaceful:

Single, in groups,

One hundred years old troops:

Baby-trees in the nursery,

And trees with and old family history.

 

Unfortunately, some’re fading young,

With a sick trunk,

From diseases and termites’ attacks.

It’s always some old cracks

That follow

To flow.

Others are turning yellow,

From not enough water and sun to glow.

Many’re standing tall and green

Giving home for birds and insects,

With all the respects.

Leafless and evergreen –

Among them are ugly and those that lost the appeal,

Others, in bloom

Are just very beautiful!

 Also, the giving trees

Provide fruits to eats,

Deliver ozone

At the cool zone.

Several trees have odor and smell.

Well,

Trees with the bad mood

May swallow a person in their cocoon.

Of course, in general, trees attract people and birds.

Trees are the biggest rewards!

 

Everywhere you go –

In front of the window,

In the gardens and parks,

And other woody landmarks

In the giant tree world

Trees will keep your stress less.

Trees embrace peace and say ‘yes,”

In the ‘y’ shape’s way

As they spiritually pray.

Trees on the boulevards and busy streets,

Trees in the woods and green forests –

Everywhere we go,

The trees are saying “Hello!”

Our green trees

Hold the keys

To the natural landscape

And help to escape.

In the most of the world,

The ‘tree’ word

Is a popular cultural symbol,

Very simple. Trees are vital

And environmental.

They are common

As an earth’s econ.

 

I love trees

That surrounds me!

They give me comfort,

Energy, and every effort

To listen to the birds’ songs,

Covered in shadows’ oblongs.

Ida Tomshinsky@2022

Holidays' Warm Colors

 Technique: Crochet

Colors: Warm brown, warm green, 

red, beige, plus two yellow buttons (optional)

Design & Photography: Tomshinsky, 2022

Famous Examples of Flash Literature

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“The Pedestrian” 

Originally published in The Reporter in 1951, 

“The Pedestrian” is one of Ray Bradbury’s most famous works. ...

  “A Haunted House” Virginia Woolf’s 

ability to quickly establish tone 

is evident in “A Haunted House.” ...

  “A Telephonic Conversation” Mark Twain experimented 

with format in his 810-word short story 

 “Everyone Cried” ...

Are you ready for Thanksgiving?

 Tradition: Turkey bird cooked and ready for indulging.

Inspirational piece! Family style.

Happy Veterans' Day!