Colleen

Love is the only way to live - Wife, mom and grandmother ❤️ 🇺🇸

[Dovi Safier @safier]

“It was one of the most monumentally unselfish things one group of people did for another.”

-#DDay veteran Andy Rooney on the young 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy 82 years ago.

Required watching for every young person today!

[Colleen @Colleen0718]

🙏❤️😢

[Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark]

"I have wings!" This nestling Red-tailed Hawk shows that it soon will be ready to fly, at 180 Central Park South today. Clearly Mom has been an excellent provider for both remaining youngsters.

[Scott @Havenlust]

Claude Monet

[Colleen @Colleen0718]

@neeratanden Nope! Can’t wait to start watching it again!

[Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark]

The Red-tailed Hawk chick of 927 Fifth Avenue showed how much it has grown, with mother Octavia on Tuesday.

[Scott @Havenlust]

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

[jennie bleijenburg @republiektrien]

Claude Monet

[Dan Berthod @DanBerthod]

Claude Monet
Matin à Antibes, 1888

[Cardinal Dolan @CardinalDolan]

Every morning, I try to do two things: pray the divine office and read the paper! The world is filled with trial and trauma, and that’s why we need prayer. Newspaper and prayer. Not a bad way to begin the day. @thegnewsroom

[Gökçe Akbağ @gokc22299]

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Claude Monet,
Lane in the Poppy Fields, Ile Saint-Martin, 1880.

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[Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark]

One of two Red-tailed Hawk nestlings at the 180 Central Park South nest.

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

How humble is Carole ....she wrote the song ,but lets her friend James take the credit . James had been going through crisis with his addiction. She offered him the song to cover and release before she released it on her album! He got the accolades .....Now ain't that a friend ...? 💖

James Taylor & Carole King - You've Got A Friend

[Mary 🇺🇸🇺🇸 @baseball_mom_3]

June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

[22:22 @22hrr22min]

woman with a parasol in a garden by pierre-auguste renoir (french, 1875)

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Voltaire passed away today in 1778.

There are two quotes of his I always come back to:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

and

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

[The Curious Voyager @CuriousVoyagerX]

The largest and most extravagant château in France’s Loire Valley, built between 1519 and 1547 for King Francis I.

It is world‑famous for its French Renaissance architecture and its unique double‑helix staircase, believed to have been influenced by Leonardo da Vinci.

During WWII, artworks from the Louvre were stored here for protection.

📍 Château de Chambord 🇫🇷

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

May is closing with one of the most captivating celestial events visible to the naked eye. On the night of May 30–31, the second full moon of the month will rise, creating what is known as a Blue Moon.

This will be the first Blue Moon since August 2023, with the next not occurring until December 2028. But this year’s event is especially memorable because it coincides with a beautiful alignment of planets.

As the Blue Moon shines, all four of the brightest planets visible from Earth, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn, will also be on display. Before sunrise on May 31, Mars and Saturn will glow low in the eastern sky. After sunset, Venus and Jupiter will shine brightly in the western sky, with the full moon dominating the night.

Despite the name, a Blue Moon is not actually blue in color. The term simply describes the second full moon within a single calendar month. Because the lunar cycle is approximately 29.5 days, two full moons rarely fit inside the same month. On average, a Blue Moon occurs only once every 2.5 years.

The planetary “lineup” is an impressive sight created by perspective. While the planets are separated by hundreds of millions of miles in space, from our viewpoint on Earth they appear to line up across the sky alongside the brilliant Blue Moon.

A perfect opportunity to look up this weekend and enjoy one of nature’s rarest sky shows.

[Human Owned by Cat 😺 @Petswithaura]

Punch wakes up slowly... and the first thing he looks for isn't the world - it's his orange mama, the one that stayed when no one else did. He pulls it close and cuddles into it, like his small heart still remembers who never left him alone.

[CityVibesX @earthviewss1]

The interior of St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican Italy 🇮🇹