What’s Up in the Neighborhood, June 21, 2025

Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. Looks like this is the weekend of the summer solstice, the longest sunlit days of the year. For me, that means trying out some infrared film and seeing what I can achieve. Because, yeah, that’s fun.

But before I go anywhere today … let’s get a nice wrap-up of the great blogs and writings and ideas from my wonderful friends on the blogroll. And that list includes …

• BLOGS FOR TRAVEL
  • Alan Ilagan’s blog, “A Quiet Summer Start.“
  • The Cawston Greenway blog, “I thought I had seen it all…“
• BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE
  • Sara Rose Hellmuth’s “Mom Jeans and Meltdowns,” “You can see my face, not my kid’s.“
  • Audley Stephenson’s “Best Audacious Life!,” “Conquering Burnout: Strategies for Workplace Wellness with Michael Levitt.“
  • The Bedlam Farm Journal, “Meet Four Year-Old Asteroid, A Kitten To Melt The Heart. Maria Did Melt When She Met Her At Our Vet’s. I Admit I Did Too.“
  • J. Eric Smith’s blog, “Best Albums of 2025 (First Half).“
  • Marc Beebe’s “Wandering Words,” “What Happened Tuesday.“
• BLOGS FOR THE IMAGE
  • Emily Pratt Slatin’s blog, “The 2025 Middletown Springs Strawberry Jam Fun Run.“
  • The B&S About Movies, “The Horror of Party Beach (1964).“
  • Tim Jeffers’ “Vintage Lens,” “1941 Stearman Biplane.“
  • The Resurrected Camera blog, “Wedding Selfies Pt. II.“
  • The Trivial Music Silliness blog, “Am I Blue?“
• BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN
  • The Saturday Morning Archives, “The Land of the Lost to return, this time on Netflix.“
  • The WritergurlNY blog, “Garden State (2004).“
• BLOGS FOR THE WORD
  • Jan Wiezorek in the Pine Hills Review, “Prairie Need.“
  • The Phoenix Desertsong blog, “Grandiloquent.“
• BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE
  • Silvia Lilly’s “DelSo” blog, “Collar(ed) City.“
  • Molly White’s “[Citation Needed],” “State power sponsored by Coinbase.“
  • The Capital District Fun blog, “How to Have FUN at a Protest.“
  • Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with Roger,” “Southern Baptists Want to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage.“
  • Jacob Gilbert’s “The Land of Whatever,” “This Week in GOP Stupidity.“
• BLOGS IN MEMORIAM
  • RIP Baseball, “Verle Tiefenthaler (1937-2025).“

Have a great weekend, everybody!