"T Stands For Teddy Looking At Baseball Field" - Photograph

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I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for this week's T Stands For challenge found here.

This is my summation of the past week:

Those are more photos of Teddy from our trip to Aspetuck Park two weeks ago. I made sure this high perch was safe before I allowed Teddy to pose on it. I didn't want another mishap of him tumbling to the ground below.

I needed a ticket into this week's T-gathering, and Teddy pointed out there is a glass of orange juice on the table in this magazine photo:

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It was another week of mixed rain and sunshine. I was thrilled to get my first photograph of a Bald Eagle at the reservoir. I'm hoping it has a nest nearby and will return every year. I also went to the Mark Twain Library in Redding, CT. I didn't learn until I was an adult that Mark Twain spent his final years living at Stormfield in Redding, CT. Prior to that, he had lived in Hartford, CT. I visited the Mark Twain House in 2015, but unfortunately we weren't allowed to take photos inside, which was gorgeous.

I created more artwork, including an Automobile, Seaworld Starfish tag and postcard, and I had the honor of being this week's guest host at Sunday Postcard Art, with a theme of Stars. If you like making postcard art sized 4" x 6" / 6" x 4" I hope you can join us this week.

Over the weekend, we watched Guest In The House (1944), Dear Murderer (1947), The Lodger (1944), The Scar (1948), and The Great Gatsby (1974) (DVD).

The Great Gatsby is a wonderful movie, but I hadn't seen it in a long time. When I watched it this time, I realized the main love story plot was similar to that of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: poor guy loves woman, they are separated for a time, and he returns rich, but she is now married to someone else.

Recently I heard about a non-fiction book that asserted that The Great Gatsby was inspired by the five months in 1920 that F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda spent in a rental "cottage" built in 1758 at 244 Compo Road South in Westport, Connecticut, right next to the large estate of a millionaire, whose mansion was on a bay of Long Island Sound. And interestingly, the mansion faces Judy Point, where at least one house was probably located, just like in the movie / book, where Gatsby could see the green light at the end of the dock at Daisy's house across the bay. The mansion still stands, and is now The Inn at Longshore. The property is the Longshore Golf Course. The "cottage" is still at the corner of the vast property. You can read an article about the book claims here.

Speaking of Long Island Sound, a Great White Shark was tracked off the coast of Greenwich, CT yesterday by OCEARCH. This is very unusual, but not unheard of. The shark, named Cabot, tweeted a greeting, but as word spread about the visitor, interested viewers overloaded the OCEARCH website.

Divers and Sundry had a blog post about a science fiction TV show called The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, which sounded interesting, so I created my own blog post with a link to all of the episodes that I could find, so I can watch them online, and in case anyone else wants to do the same thing. And for fans of the TV series Columbo, I have a link to all of the episodes here.