Unexpected Visitor: Photo Essay

Landed and checking out the location.

Examine the car - there is 

a long surprising look at the Toyota. 

Welcome home, "unexpected visitor."

 Please let us know

how we can help

Photographer: Isaak Tomshinsky, 2018

Meet the Parents

When time comes, we are with full enthusiasm, appreciation, and love celebrating Mother's Day in spring, and Father's day in summer. And we want to honor the both heads of the household. In the modern times of acceptance, equality, and family diversity, both parents sharing the same duties and chores. Both Mamas and Papas are "Power Parents." Every child knows when we ask the Mother and she does not want to take the responsibly for a decision, Mom would shout out "Ask your Dad!" And after you we go to the Dad to ask the same question, he uses the reverse psychology and family diplomacy by telling the child that without Mother's approval he cannot say "yes."

This days, the family is all about the teamwork. More often, we talk and read about the teamwork in the work setting and at any organizational structure. Of course, the power of the family also is within strong roots of teamwork and family members that deeply care for each other not only on Mother's Day, Father's Day, or at the Thanksgiving table. Celebrations are a part of our traditions. We honor are heroes, we honor our parents and grandparents that we love and admire. They are our role-models, and very often we not only proudly carrying our family name, by also the same DNA - the genes. We care the parents' love throughout the life.

Therefore, not always we have to wait for the big day celebration, because we can say the simple words "I love you!" or "Thank You!" on a daily base. And when the children are the young adults, what counts is, to call or text to say: "How are you? How you been? I miss you!"

Librarians Libraries

"Red Carpet" at 

2018 Florida Library Association Conference 

in Orlando, May 23-25, 2018

Library Workers Day

Poetry Month

Job Fair for Career Opportunities

Earth Day

Various book displays 

by multiply themes and 

major outreach programs

to draw library users awareness and

to celebrate National days with books.

Wikipedia

Apparently Wikipedia 

does not 

count as 

a literature review.

@SAGA research methods

Wind-Resistant Shade Trees

When the heat and wind meet, they bring the hurricane The local people of South Florida know a lot about hurricanes and the trees to plant that can withstand an onslaught of intense heat and bad weather.

There two trees that will leave residents worry-free when the hurricane season will come. Both Exothea Paniculata (Inkwood) and Guercus Virginiana (Live Oak) provide shade from sun during the summer months, and help save the energy bills.

Inkwood is an excellent accent tree for commercial landscaping. It has dense foliage, and grows to 45 feet in South Florida.

The Live Oak is a large sprawling, picturesque tree that provides large areas of deep shade. Growing to 40 to 60 feet, with a 60 to 100 foot spread, sinuously curved trunks and branches, and a trunk that can grow to more than six feet in diameter, the Live Oak is an impressive sight for any large-scale landscape.

The Australian Pine and Laurel Oak are very beautiful, but not to be able to withstand hurricane-force winds.

Photo and text: Ida Tomshinsky

The Rose Did Caper On Her Cheek

The rose did caper on her cheek,
Her bodice rose and fell,
Her pretty speech, like drunken men,
Did stagger pitiful.

Her fingers fumbled at her work, -
Her needle would not go;
What ailed so smart a little maid
It puzzled me to know,

Till opposite I spied a cheek
That bore another rose;
Just opposite, another speech
That like the drunkard goes;

A vest that, like the bodice, danced
To the immortal tune, -
Till those two troubled little clocks
Ticked softly into one.

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Where the Birds Came From?

About 160-million years ago, the creature called Archaeopteryx had skeleton characteristics identical to small dinosaurs that lived during that same time. This creature also had toothed jaw and feathers that allowed the Archaeopteryx to move from place to place ‘transporting’ through branches. Some scientists believed that Archaeopteryx is the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and what today we identify as birds. Also, birds’ beaks, legs, and the ability to lay eggs indicates a strong relationship between birds and reptiles. New discoveries are helping to better understand how birds evolved and how they are related to each other, from the tiny hummingbird to the towering ostrich.

In 2005 bones discovered from Antarctica’ fossil gave new and very exciting facts: the skeleton of Vegavis dated to around sixty-seven million years ago bears traits that exist only in a modern-day duck. The new discoveries combined with more advanced methods of genetic tests suggest that the avian family tree got their start just before the asteroid strike. (Jaggard, 2018) An asteroid stroke sixty-six millions years ago. It devastated the dinosaurs, but scientists today have proof and evidence that there were a few survivors that evolved many millions of years of the mass extinction and begot today’s birds.