A Small Bundle of Large Enthusiasms and Posts of the Week

It turns out that my blog, among many others, and probably still more to come has reverted back to word verification prompts. I dislike them as much as you do and please know that my settings are such that I do not allow it on my blog. And yet, there it is at the bottom of the comment form for at least some visitors. 

From what I understand, this is yet another attempt at Google forcing Blogger users to sign in with a Google+ account in order to not have to jump through the very annoying hoops of word verification. Google likes to tell us that it's to protect our accounts from anonymous posters but my blog settings also indicate that I don't allow anonymous comments. And folks who are not anonymous and who are signed into their usual Blogger profile are still seeing the WV. So that doesn't jive. 

So it appears that at least for now, many of us will be stuck with having to punch in those ridiculous letters and numbers which are so difficult for so many to see so that Google can continue to "protect" us. I'm sorry that my blog is among those.

Ahhh Google, I used to think you were the best. You've been a major disappointment for the past few years. 

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Everyone laughs at so small a bundle of large enthusiasms.

~ Aldo Leopold

 

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

~ Tom Brown Jr.

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Then piped a tiny voice hard by,

Gay and polite, a cheeful cry,

"Chick-a-dee-dee!" saucy note

Out of a sound heart and merry throat

As if it said, "Good day, good sir!

Fine afternoon, old passenger!

Happy to meet you in these places

Where January brings few faces.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson






She is only a little chickadee
Not the boldest bird to sing
But she knows that she's most fortunate
there's no one else she'd rather be
She can fly, she can fly
Anywhere she'd care to roam
And call anywhere her home
She is only, a little chickadee.
~The Chenille Sisters

The day was not observed when it first blossomed, nor when it first bore fruit, unless by the chickadee.

~ Henry David Thoreau

All my life I have tried to learn as the chickadee learns, by listening-profiting by the mistakes of others, that I might help my people.

~ Chief Plenty Coups

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And now, without further delay, here are the Posts of the Week. The icon below is yours for the taking if your blog post is named as a POTW.

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A GOOD READ

Fixing Charlie Dinner
by Mage
at Postcards

This Time of Year
by Pauline
at Writing Down the Words

 Such Gratefulness
by SerentySeeking
at Ditching the Black Dog
 
I Want to Go to Lunch...
by Chicken
at Chicken's Consigliere

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JUST PLAIN ALL AROUND GOOD

I Know a Great Place to Ride
by Steve
at Out on the Prairie

The First Cold Weather
by Tabor
at Room Without Walls

What I Learnt From Venice
by Fiona
at Lady Fi
 
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PHINE PHOTOGRAPHY

Nuthatch
by Bob
at Birds and Nature in the Forest of Dean

Extremes
by Adrian
at Adrian's Images

Honoring Autumn
by Tammie Lee
at Spirithelpers

Late For a Very Good Reason
by Djan
at Djan-ity

Fall Beauty
by Sharon
at Sharon's Paws Create

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Please drop by their blogs for a visit and leave a kind comment if you have the time. Also, please feel free to add your own choices (for any blog except this one) for a specific blog post in the comments section below, where others can see them.
 

Thank you