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Butterflies and Leaves
Here is another of my coloring pages that I entitled 'Butterflies and Leaves'. The colors I used were blue, purple, red, orange, red-orange and pink. This could also be used as a counting activity for preschool. Count the butterflies? Count the red leaves? Count the purple leaves? Count the orange leaves? If you do not want to call these butterflies, they could be pretty moths too.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Just Flowers
'Just Flowers' is my imaginary garden. I used my favorite color of blues in various shades along with orange, pink, and reds. I used green yellow color crayon for the leaves. The little bushes in between the flowers could be pussy willows, but I was not sure, so I used purple, blue, tan, red, and orange color to make them stand out. I did notice I missed one at the bottom. I should have colored the white space with light blue.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
LadyBugs
Here is another color art I entitled 'LadyBugs' using crayons. Also, preschool teachers could use it as a math activity for counting. How many ladybugs in all? How many red ones? How many blues ones? How many flowers are there all together? I guess the things with a leaf are flowers of some kind. I was going to color the white area with a sky-blue color but I just saw a worksheet that teachers could maybe use.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Microsoft Azure Globally Down
On July 30, 2024, at approximately 13:13 UTC, Microsoft Azure & Microsoft 365 reported a global outage affecting a subset of its services. The issue resulted in timeouts and difficulties connecting to various Azure services worldwide. Multiple engineering teams at Microsoft were promptly engaged to diagnose and resolve the issue. The company acknowledged the problem and provided updates on the Azure status page.
By Shine b johnabout a year ago in Critique
Timmy and Lassie
How many out there remember watching the old series about a little boy and his dog known as 'Timmy and Lassie'? I do not remember watching the original series that was known as 'Jeff's Collie', but the only time that I watched this show was early in the morning before going off to catch the school bus. I am a dog person and really liked watching any program with a dog. 'Timmy and Lassie' had a famous mother by the name of Ruth Martin portrayed by June Lockhardt and Timmy Martin was played by Jon Provost for how I remember that bit of information they did a reboot in the 1990's entitled 'The New Lassie' and Jon portrayed a grown Timmy now Steven for he changed his name for he thought Ruth and the father deserted him and he was sad. The original 'Timmy and Lassie' always had some impending crisis from someone falling down somehow and Lassie going and getting help and in the long run a social issue of the time was settled. If I remember right the last episode had Timmy taking Lassie to the home the Ranger. Also, I think that is when I really started watching the Lassie shows for Lassie and Ranger had many an adventure.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Night Smoke
'Night Smoke' is another story in the 'Night Tales' series by Nora Robert's. 'Night Smoke' is a story of a firefighter inspector by the name of Ryan Piasecki and how he meets Natalie Fletcher. Natalie owns and runs a fashion corporation that owns many warehouses that seem to be the target for an arsonist. Natalie is a woman who can take care of herself in many ways but one it seems, and Ryan may be the Inspector for her. Will Natalie see that Ryan just wants the best for her and that he is true in other ways as well.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Nightshade
Nora Robert's has written a novel entitled 'Nightshade' which is a part of a series of stories 'Night Tales' a series of four books. (Just a note: Not sure if 'Nightshade' is the first one, but I do not think it really matters which you read first.) 'Nightshade' is the story of a man who is a private investigator by the name of Colt Nightshade and how he meets Althea Grayson a lieutenant in the police force. Nightshade is on a case where he is helping a family find someone and Althea is working on case that is related to his. In true Nora Robert's fashion there are issues that each will have to work through and solve the cases required.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
DISCLAIMER: This is my OPiNIOn. I am human. I am biased. My word is not law. You can like or dislike whatever the heck you want. If you disagree with my review, that is completely okay. Keep it respectful if you want to debate with me in the comments. Then let’s both move on. I genuinely hope you have a great day.
By Wen Xiaoshengabout a year ago in Critique
Father Knows Best
Another old television show from the 1950's is 'Father Knows Best' or did he. This program starred Robert Young and Jane Wyatt along with Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin. The basic premise of the show was that dad was the person who knew all the answers to all the problems that occurred but was he really. There was always some problem and the show centered on one child's or parent's issue to get at a solution whether it was Betty getting ready for graduation, Bud getting a new car somehow or Cathy getting into trouble over what she has done or some other misunderstanding. The father went out to work, the mother stayed home and made the perfect home right down to vacuuming the walls for any dust. Boys did boy things and girls did girl things. To me I like how I was raised in the 1970's and we had a choice if boys wanted to playhouse/school or whatever or if the girls wanted to race bikes or play with trucks who cared. Oh, there were questions raised but we did our own thing.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
The Donna Reed Show
There was an old television show that was from the 50's and before my time called 'The Donna Reed Show'. Donna is a stay-at-home mom as most were in the 50's unless the woman was a nurse, teacher or secretary you were a homemaker. Each episode there was always some dilemma with the kids or the husband for the mother was the only one able to figure out a way to solve the problem. It also seemed that Donna was somewhat a perfectionist for the house was always just so. I know that it was a television show, but there were episodes that Donna was able to scrub and wax her kitchen floor, bake a cake and paint a room all in one day and still have dinner on the table for the family. Believe it or not I liked the show for it gave me a somewhat idea of what the 1950's were like before all hell broke out of the 1960's. The Donna Reed Show had a young Shelly Fabree, a young Paul Peterson and a few other actors that I remember from some shows from my younger days and even today. Some of the rules from the 50's should still be in practice today.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Mister Rodger's Neighborhood
Who remembers watching 'Mister Rodger's Neighborhood' as a child? This was one of my favorites back in the late 60's before heading off to school at six years of age. My favorite part of the show was when he would take us to the Neighborhood of Make Believe and my favorite two characters in that land of make believe was Daniel, Striped Tiger who lived in a clock and Lady Elaine Fairchild, a puppet that owned the merry-go-round museum. Actually, I believe I had my first crush on Lady Amberline, King Friday's human niece. Other parts of the program that were fun was when Fred would go in the backyard and either do experiments or activities with a sand or water table. There was a picture on the wall that showed film strips and I think it was called Picture picture. Oh yeah, who could forget Mr. McFeely, Chef Brocket, and a few other characters from the human neighborhood on field trips throughout the neighborhood. This was a show that taught children many social skills and prepared them for kindergarten. Please comment any memories of this program that you may have.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
I Have a Dream
I have a dream. My dream is that of creating a free lending library at my old school. Some of my basic ideas is to rent a trailer that I can use as a library setting as well as a place to live. One long term purpose of this is that maybe I can in a way pay back my school loans from graduate school as a volunteer operation as a 501 means. I have started collecting books for the library already as in being a book reviewer I have a collection already started from children to youth and even teen novels covering a variety of subjects. I would also offer story times to young children and book discussions for older students. I am only in the very beginnings of my planning, so please share your thoughts.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique