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Monday, August 18, 2014

Could They Be Related?

Eight years ago I published a story HERE talking about how I held out my hand and a butterfly landed on it. 

This past weekend I was telling my Grandson about this story as we had seen a butterfly roaming around the property. I told him how I stuck my hand out and the butterfly landed right on it. Of course he stood there in disbelief until I said, OK, watch. I put out my hand in the air and on cue, well, check it out!
This morning I typed in "butterfly" in the search bar and found my original story and showed it to my Grandson. Cool stuff.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

A Hard To Believe Story, But True!





















My Son came to visit me from Annapolis today and we were enjoying each others company on the front porch catching up on things when this Butterfly came passing by. I started to tell him that this was a very unique Butterfly because for the past few days I would stick my hand out and it would land on my hand and completely trust me. He replied, "Come On Dad!" I said, you know what Nick, let me get my camera and maybe you can take a picture of it, maybe we'll get lucky? I went and got the camera and showed him how to use it and we snapped a picture of the Butterfly in the bushes right in front of us. Enjoying playing around with the camera I said, are you ready? I no sooner stuck out my hand and the Butterfly flew over to me and landed RIGHT ON IT! He must have snapped 10 pictures and complained that they were all out of focus, except ONE! Hence the photo above. I have to admit, we were both kind of in shock but it's a pretty cool story.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Lee Dorman Dead: Iron Butterfly Bassist Dies At 70


 
LOS ANGELES — Lee Dorman, the bassist for psychedelic rock band Iron Butterfly, has died at age 70.

Orange County sheriff's spokeswoman Gail Krause says Dorman was found dead in a vehicle Friday morning. A coroner's investigation is under way, but foul play is not suspected.

Krause said Dorman may have been on his way to a doctor's appointment when he died.

Iron Butterfly was formed and rose to prominence in the late 1960s. Its second album, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," sold more than 30 million copies, according to the band's website. The title track's distinctive notes have been featured in numerous films and TV shows including "The Simpsons," "That `70s Show" and in the series finale of "Rescue Me."

Douglas Lee Dorman was born in September 1942 and had been living in Laguna Nigel, a coastal city in Southern California, when he died.

A message sent through the band's website was not immediately returned.

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Biden describes granddaughter at 12 as a 'little butterfly' but then there was 'a snake in the bed'

In his first public appearance since Thursday night's contentious 2020 Democratic debate, Joe Biden addressed a large crowd at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention in Chicago on Friday afternoon

The former vice president, 76, held hands with his granddaughter, Finnegan, 19, daughter of Hunter Biden, when he described what it was like to raise a young girl. He said, "When your daughter's about 12 and half years old you put this little butterfly in bed and you kiss it goodnight. Next morning you walk in and there's a snake in the bed."

Finnegan Biden looked uncomfortable and Biden's comment was met with some awkward chuckling from the crowd before his quickly segued into speaking about his sharply-criticized performance in the Democratic debate.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Michael Phelps Set for London Trials

Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte renew their rivalry at next week's U.S. Olympic trials, where both swimmers could face each other in six events.

They'll open the eight-day meet in Omaha, Neb., on Monday in the 400-meter individual medley, a grueling event that Phelps had said he wasn't going to swim anymore after the 2008 Olympics, where he won a record eight gold medals. He holds the world record in the event.

Their other events against each other will be the 100 and 200 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 200 IM and 100 butterfly. Phelps is entered in the 200 butterfly as one of his seven events.

Lochte is entered in a total of 11 events, including the 50 free, 100 breaststroke, 200 fly and 400 free, but is unlikely to swim all of them. Swimmers can scratch out of an event up until the end of finals the day before their scheduled event.

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Wednesday, August 01, 2012

London 2012: Michael Phelps Wins Record 19th Olympic Medal

LONDON — Michael Phelps swam into history with his 19th Olympic medal, and this one was a more appropriate color.
With a lot of help from his friends, Phelps took down the last major record that wasn’t his alone, swimming the anchor leg for the United States in a gold medal-winning performance of the 4x200-meter freestyle relay Tuesday night.
About an hour earlier, Phelps took one of the most frustrating defeats of his brilliant career, making a shocking blunder at the finish and settling for silver in his signature event, the 200 butterfly.
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

U.S. Heads to Court to Build Our Border Wall in Texas

Three years into Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S. government is ramping up its efforts to seize private land in Texas to build a border wall.

Trump’s signature campaign promise has consistently faced political, legal, and environmental obstacles in Texas, which has the largest section of the U.S.-Mexico border, most of it without fencing. And much of the land along the Rio Grande, the river that forms the border in Texas, is privately held and environmentally sensitive.

Almost no land has been taken so far. But Department of Justice lawyers have filed three lawsuits this month seeking to take property from landowners. On Tuesday, lawyers moved to seize land in one case immediately before a scheduled court hearing in February.

The agency says it’s ready to file many more petitions to take private land in the coming weeks. While progress has lagged, the process of taking land under eminent domain is weighted heavily in the government’s favor.

The U.S. government has built about 90 miles (145 kilometers) of walls since Trump took office, almost all of it replacing old fencing. Reaching Trump’s oft-stated goal of 500 miles (800 kilometers) by the end of 2020 will almost certainly require stepping up progress in Texas.

Opponents have lobbied Congress to limit funding and prevent construction in areas like the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, an important sanctuary for several endangered species of jaguars, birds, and other animals, as well as the nonprofit National Butterfly Center and a historic Catholic chapel. They have also filed several lawsuits.

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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Phelps locks up trip to 5th Olympics; Franklin going too

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Michael Phelps is heading back to the Olympics.

So is Missy Franklin.

Phelps, the most decorated athlete in Olympic history, held off a stiff challenge from Tom Shields to win the 200-meter butterfly at the U.S. swimming trials Wednesday night. Phelps whipped around to look at his time — a bit slower than he probably would’ve liked — and held up all five fingers on his right hand.

Yep, it’s Olympics No. 5, making him the first male swimmer to compete in that many Summer Games.

“I think that means the most tonight,” Phelps said, pausing to compose himself. “Just being able to finish how I want to is so important to me. Getting on this team is what I wanted to do.”

Franklin, meanwhile, turned in one of the gutsiest performances of her career to earn a spot for Rio in the 200 freestyle. One night after she struggled to seventh in the 100 backstroke — an event she won four years ago in London — there was plenty of speculation that she’d be hard-pressed to qualify for any individual events at these games.

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Friday, August 12, 2016

If Maryland Were A Country, It Would Have The 2nd Most Gold Medals

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — With the likes of Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky and other Olympians hailing from the Baltimore and D.C. metro areas, and still more Olympians having trained locally, if the state of Maryland were a country competing in the 2016 Rio Olympics, it would hold the second most gold medals.

According to our media partners at The Baltimore Sun, the tiny “country” of Maryland would be trailing only China in gold medal count if medals won by local athletes were subtracted from the medal count for the U.S. as a whole.

Of course, that’s counting individual event medals from Phelps (200m butterfly) and Ledecky (200m freestyle & 400m freestyle), plus their medals from winning relay teams (men’s 4x200m freestyle relay & 4x100m freestyle for Phelps, women’s 4x200m freestyle relay for Ledecky), and the relay medals for three other athletes with local ties — Jack Conger (men’s 4x200m freestyle relay) , Cierra Runge (women’s 4x200m freestyle relay) and Allison Schmitt (women’s 4x200m freestyle relay).

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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Today's Wildlife Photo 8-29-15

Three Black Swallowtail butterfly caterpillars feasting on a dill plant.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

‘The Ideas Made It, But I Didn’t’

Pat Buchanan won after all. But now he thinks it might be too late for the nation he was trying to save.

His first date with his future wife was spent in aNew Hampshire motel room drinking Wild Turkey into the wee hours with Hunter S. Thompson. He stood several feet away from Martin Luther King Jr. during the “I Have a Dream” speech. He went to China with Richard M. Nixon and walked away from Watergate unscathed. He survived Iran-Contra, too, and sat alongside Ronald Reagan at the Reykjavík Summit. He invaded America’s living rooms and pioneered the rhetorical combat that would power the cable news age. He defied the establishment by challenging a sitting president of his own party. He captured the fear and frustration of the right by proclaiming a great “culture war” was at hand. And his third-party candidacy in 2000 almost certainly handed George W. Bush the presidency, thanks to thousands of Palm Beach, Florida, residents mistakenly voting for him on the “butterfly ballot” when they meant to back Al Gore.

If not for his outsize ambition, Pat Buchanan might be the closest thing the American right has to a real-life Forrest Gump, that patriot from ordinary stock whose life journey positioned him to witness, influence and narrate the pivotal moments that shaped our modern world and changed the course of this country’s history. He has known myriad roles—neighborhood brawler, college expellee, journalist, White House adviser, political commentator, presidential candidate three times over, author, provocateur—and his existence traces the arc of what feels to some Americans like a nation’s ascent and decline. He was 3 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and 6 when Harry Truman dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now 78, with thick, black glasses and a thinning face, Buchanan looks back with nostalgia at a life and career that, for all its significance, was at risk of being forgotten—until Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States.

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Friday, September 12, 2014

Fight, or Flight? Basic Self-Defense Tips

An emergency situation triggers what is called the fight or flight response. Adrenaline flows, increasing one’s heart rate and the amount of blood flowing to the muscles; a caffeine-free performance boost, if you will. In a face-to-face meeting with an intruder or criminal, this normal physiological reaction is advantageous. The important thing to remember is to make a decision. Rather than freeze, paralyzed by fear, use this natural chemical response to respond. For this entry, we’ll say that “fight” is the most realistic of the two options.

Focus on disabling the opponent long enough to: 1) allow for an escape and 2) call for the authorities. Heroics lead to trouble; find a moderate balance between speed and strength, as the old saying lies appropriate: float like a butterfly, and sting like a bee. Keep moving, and move quickly. Combine this with some basic technical knowledge, and you’ll have a fighting chance.

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Monday, May 23, 2016

Transgender Choruses Harness The (Changing) Power Of Voices

The ongoing controversy in North Carolina over access to bathrooms has increased the general public's awareness of issues facing transgender people. One thing you might not think about is voice: How does that essential tool of communication change with gender transition? It's something that has deep emotional and psychological resonance. It's also something that's playing out in a growing number of transgender choruses across the country.

As a young child growing up in South Africa, Gillian Power sang in school and church choirs.

"It was one of the things I remember from that time as something that was just so deeply joyful," Power recalls. Now she is in her early 40s. She came out as transgender a couple of years ago.

"A person's sense of identity and who they are is so inextricably linked to their voice," Power says. "Voice is probably one of the deepest signifiers of who a person is."

Female hormones didn't change Power's voice. So she's taking voice lessons. As she works with her teacher, Power seems to find the confidence to really breathe, to release feelings, to express her true self — things she says felt incompatible with her body for so long.

Power lives in Kansas City with her wife and two young children. Last year on a business trip to Boston, she sat in on a rehearsal of that city's Butterfly Music Transgender Chorus.

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

A Brooke Mulford Update

Well, Brooke did fabulous this final round of antibodies (no fevers, blood pressure issues, just a raspy voice from all the chattering she does when she’s getting antibodies)!

We were able to go home Monday night (discharged about 7pm). I have to admit that leaving inpatient for the very last time (hopefully) is not as easy as you might think. I have met so many wonderful families on the onco floor were we have essentially lived the past 15months and I will miss them all. Plus the nurses, Sarah (child life), Stephanie (social worker) and so many others that work on the floor were just so great to us. I also have really had mixed emotions about Brooke’s treatments ending. I know, I know…you must think that I am crazy and I think only another parent going through the same thing can truly understand, but treatment at least gives you the feeling that you are fighting the beast and as long as you are going through treatment (as bad as it can get) you feel as if you are doing everything possible and that the cancer is being destroyed and not coming back. Once the treatment is over you feel like you are opening up the doors to potentially let the beast back in.

Part of me is relieved that my baby is done with it and part is scared to death. I know that I need to put my fears to rest, put my faith in God and move on with our lives but at times that is easier said than done. I have read every scripture in the Bible about fears and anxiety this past year (over and over and over again) and have found great peace in His word but every time I hear of another NB child earning their angel wings (and tragically there have been many these past couple of weeks) the fears come flooding back. My heart aches for each and every one of these families… Yes Brooke is NED (No Evidence of Disease) but the scary fact is that there is a very high rate of re-occurrence. Please continue to pray for her especially in this next year as most kids seem to relapse in the first year after becoming NED. Your prayers comfort me more than you could ever know.

Back to discharge day…one of the reasons we left CHOP so late on Monday was because Brooke got her hearing aids and we spent about 3 hours with audiology learning how to put them in, take care of them and the audiologist (Wendy) made some adjustments. Brooke has been doing great with them and wearing them more each day. Can you believe that they came with stickers you can decorate them with? They were already pink and purple! Another audiologist gave her beads to put on them too (one purple and one yellow for each ear…at least they’re NB colors)! They even have Jibbitz (the things you can put on Crocs) type things you can put on them and they gave Brooke a butterfly but I might just have to draw the line with that! My girl loves to accessorize but enough is enough! Well, at least she likes them and that is a blessing (no matter how wild they look)!

Tuesday we had a great day at home. Brooke slept until 12:30 and we had a very early dinner at Market Street (3:30). Later that night I tried to flush Brooke’s “tubies” (as I have to do every night to keep them open). The line was sluggish and I tried to force the flush a bit and Brooke screamed in pain grabbing her neck right where the med comp travels. Well, there’s that fear thing again! I called CHOP and the fellow on call was pretty sure there was a clot in the line and he would have our fellow call us today to let me know what he wants us to do. After I hung up with CHOP I called Dr. Dave (at 10pm I might add) and he was over in about 2 minutes to check Brooke out. He assured me that she was ok and allowed me to actually get a decent night sleep. Dr. Dave you are AWESOME!!!!

So after talking with Dr. Weiser, our Fellow, this afternoon we tried to get the potential clot taken care of locally with no luck. So off we went back up north again! We got to my Mom’s house in NJ around 8:30pm and have to be at CHOP in the onco clinic first thing in the morning. I do feel more comfortable brining her to CHOP where they do this sort of thing all the time but I am SO SICK of the drive! Brooke’s Med Comp (tubies) is 15 months old which apparently is pretty incredible. Every nurse and doctor are amazed that she still has her original Med Comp and they have all said that they have never seen a child be able to keep their med comp even half this long (most kids have to have theirs out due to line infections before they are even finished with chemo). So once again props to Dr. Dave (and Dr. Jeff, Tonia & Kellie) for doing such great jobs with her dressing changes each week! So hopefully we will be in and out quickly tomorrow and that she will have 2 working lumens. We are trying to keep her line in until she has her end of study scans and tests to spare her from having to get needle sticks and IV’s placed. Brooke is still doing part of her treatment at home: GM-CSF shots until Sunday and Accutane until April 28th and then scans will likely be around the first week of May.

Well, it is getting late and I do need to get up early tomorrow but I will update you as soon as I can. Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Thank you and God bless,

Amy

Saturday, October 13, 2018

Falling Out of Step and Running Out of Time? A closer look at the life of Maryland’s declining state insect

Signs of spring were late to arrive in Maryland this year. Still, as temperatures slowly rose and days lengthened throughout April, leaves grew on trees and plants sprouted into flower. Birds and spring peepers made their presence known through trilling song and chirping call, and insects began to take wing. Later this year, frosty mornings and honking skies of migrating geese will hint that winter is once again on its way. These familiar seasonal changes signal the passage of time for humans, but for plants and animals in nature, seasonal change is essential for survival—it triggers growth and new life stages, feeding and mating activities, migration, hibernation and other natural phenomena.

How do animals emerge from an egg, find a mate or head south for winter at the right time? And how are plants cued to unfold from the soil, send flowers into bloom, produce fruit or go dormant come autumn?

Scientists study animal physiology and behavior, plant form and function and seasonal weather patterns carefully to understand these recurring life events. This science is calledphenology, which is derived from Greek phaino, meaning to show or appear. Studying phenology provides information about the life history of a species and the systems that underlie food webs and population dynamics.

Timing is everything
When it comes to phenology, nothing is as simple as it may seem. The interconnected nature of ecosystems means that one species’ seasonal life events affect many other plants and animals. For instance, the life cycles of many pollinatorspecies in Maryland, such as native bees and butterflies, are aligned with the cycles of the plants that provide food for larvae, nectar for adults and host locations for eggs or transitional life stages.

If the life events of the host plant and insect do not align—if, for instance, butterflies emerge before host plants emerge—the butterfly may not survive to reproduce. This falling out of sync is called phenological mismatch. Biologists track the phenologies of many plant and animal species, and apply this knowledge to manage habitats and conserve at-risk species.However, current understanding of the phenology of many species is far from complete, especially as the impacts of global climate change continue to affect temperature patterns.

As average temperatures warm and weather patterns are altered, biologists are beginning to understand how some species are reacting, and possibly adapting, to the coming change.

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Monday, October 04, 2010

Oldies

Oldies - IF THERE IS ONE MESSAGE YOU SHOULD SAVE, IT'S THIS ONE.  MUCH BETTER THAN ANY TIME-LIFE COLLECTION AS YOU CAN NOT ONLY HEAR THE SONG BUT WATCH THE PERSON/GROUP PERFORM IT.  JUST CLICK ON A SONG AND IT WILL OPEN A NEW WINDOW AND LINK TO THE SONGS VIDEO.

J1 SILHOUETTES The Rays
J2 COME SOFTLY TO ME The Fleetwoods
J3 ONLY YOU Tony Williams & The Platters
J4 A TEENAGER IN LOVE Dion & The Belmonts
J5 GOOD LOVIN' Felix Cavaliere & The Rascals
J6 I'M IN LOVE AGAIN Fats Domino
J7 SUSPICIOUS MINDS Elvis Presley
J8 BYE BYE, LOVE The Everly Brothers
J9 LITTLE DARLIN' The Diamonds
J10 GOODY GOODY Frankie Lymon
J11 DREAM LOVER Bobby Darin
J12 WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE? Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers

J13 TOO MUCH Elvis Presley
J14 THAT'S WHY (I LOVE YOU SO) Jackie Wilson
J15 GET A JOB The Silhouettes
J16 DANCE WITH ME, HENRY The Platters
J17 OH WHAT A NIGHT (IT REALLY WAS) Dinah Washington
J18 PARTY DOLL/HULA LOVE Buddy Knox
J19 CAN'T STOP (HE'S GOT THE POWER) The Exciters
J20 WHEN MY DREAMBOAT COMES HOME Fats Domino
J21 YOU SEND ME Sam Cooke
J22 A LOVER'S CONCERTO The Toys
J23 YOU BELONG TO ME The (original) Duprees
J24 YOU ARE EVERYTHING The Stylistics
J25 SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE The Teentones
J26 ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Bill Haley & The Comets
J27 YOU BETTER KNOW IT Jackie Wilson
J28 BUTTERFLY Charlie Gracie
J29 THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES Bobby Vee
J30 RUBY RUBY Dion
J31 SAVE THE LAST DANCE Ben E. King
J32 DON'T GO BREAKIN' MY HEART Elton John & Kiki Dee
J33 IT"S MY PARTY Lesley Gore
J34 MIDNIGHT SPECIAL Johnny Rivers
J35 EVERYBODY LOVES A CLOWN Gary Lewis & The Playboys
J36 I GOT YOU BABE Sonny & Cher
J37 BABY, DON'T CHANGE YOUR MIND Gladys Knight & The Pips
J38 Debbie Does Doo Wop! DENISE, DENISE Blondie
J39 TIE A YELLOW RIBBON Tony Orlando & Dawn
J40 HELP The Beatles
J41 BROWN SUGAR The Rolling Stones
J42 CHANTILLY LACE The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson)
J43 NEEDLES AND PINS The Searchers
J44 CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' The Mamas & The Papas
J45 DO THE FREDDIE Freddie & The Dreamers
J46 1-2-3 Len Barry
J47 LONG TALL SALLY Little Richard
J48 WHEEL OF FORTUNE Kay Starr
J49 FIVE O'CLOCK WORLD The Vogues
J50 BE MY BABY The Ronettes
J51 SURFIN' USA The Beach Boys
J52 BABY LOVE Diana Ross & The Supremes
J53 PIECE OF MY HEART Janis Joplin
J54 RUNAWAY Del Shannon
J55 YOUNG GIRL Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
J56 THE WONDER OF YOU Elvis Presley
J57 HOTEL CALIFORNIA The Eagles
J58 SUPERSTAR The Carpenters
J59 IMAGINE John Lennon
J60 ROCK & ROLL IS HERE TO STAY Danny & The Juniors
J61 SIXTEEN REASONS Connie Stevens
J62 LOUIE LOUIE The Kingsmen
J63 THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKIN' Nancy Sinatra
J64 MONA LISA Nat King Cole
J65 OH, GIRL The Chi-Lites
J66 MONEY HONEY Elvis Presley
J67 I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU Stevie Wonder
J68 TO KNOW HIM IS TO LOVE HIM The Teddy Bears
J69 BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY The original Four Seasons
J70 YOU WIN AGAIN/FOUR WINDS Fats Domino
J71 PIPELINE The Chantays
J72 SUNSHINE, LOLLIPOPS & RAINBOWS Lesley Gore
J73 SEARCHIN' The Coasters
J74 HAVE YOU HEARD The Duprees
J75 SLEEPWALK Santo & Johnny

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Phelps Rebounds With World Record In 200 Fly


ROME - Michael Phelps bounced back from a stunning loss to set a world record in the 200-meter butterfly at the world swimming championships.

One night after he was soundly beaten by Germany’s Paul Biedermann in the 200 freestyle, Phelps got back on track Wednesday with a time of 1 minute, 51.51 seconds — more than a half-second ahead of his previous mark, 1:52.03.

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Tuesday, May 03, 2016

A MARYLAND MOTHER’S DAY – THINK LOCAL FOR UNIQUE FINDS

This week, celebrate National Small Business Week by doing your Mother’s Day gifting while shopping at a local store, supporting a local farmer, or ordering from an online Maryland-based retailer. Small Business Week runs from May 1-7, with Mother’s Day wrapping up the week-long celebration on May 8. Whether you celebrate by buying a unique gift or planning a special outing, local Maryland businesses can help provide an extraordinary experience.
By shopping small, you are supporting the local economy while finding a great gift for the special woman in your life. Here are some ways to support small Maryland businesses.
Specialties from Maryland Bakers and Chocolatiers 
If you’re in Baltimore City, you can’t go wrong with the legendary Rheb’s candy shop or infamous cannoli from Vaccaro’s. In Western Maryland, check out Deanna’s Cupcake Shop in Cumberland or Lorenzo’s Frostburg Bakery in Frostburg. In Southern Maryland, try the Wildewood Pastry Shop. If you can’t make it to a local bakery, order a Maryland dessert online. Smith Island Cakes can be shipped directly to your home. Smith Island Cakes are Maryland’s official dessert, and officially delicious!
Not Just Any Flowers 
Don’t pick up just any flowers Sunday morning – make your flowers extra special by sharing a fun experience. Take her to the Baltimore Farmer’s Market and Bazaar to pick her own flowers directly from local farmers. The Hashawha Environmental Center & Bear Branch Nature Center in Westminster is hosting a Mother’s DayWildflower Walk on May 7, and Sunny Hill Farm in Whiteford will host “Mother’s Day Paint Night Out in the Greenhouse” on May 6. The Bleached Butterfly Floral & Home Boutique in Berlin offers fresh flowers daily, custom arrangements, and Maryland’s only full service terrarium bar!

Tuesday, June 05, 2018

Sales for Mariah Carey's Vegas shows are 'a disaster'

Mariah Carey might want to sell some more jewelry if fans don’t start buying tickets to her “Butterfly Returns” shows at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Seats are still available for the July 5 opening night of her three-month residency. “It’s a disaster,” one insider told me. “Scalpers bought a bunch of the tix and are freaking out.”

Carey fired her fiercely protective manager Stella Bulochnikov in November and hasn’t performed since Christmas.

Bulochnikov was going to book her at a smaller venue in Vegas “so they could keep announcing sold-out shows,” my source said.

“Instead, they put her back in Caesars with 4,300 seats.”

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Bride's Special Dance

This bride receives a very special gift from her loving brother on her wedding. Since her father passed away shortly before her wedding from pancreatic cancer, her brother recorded himself singing “butterfly kisses” for her and had all of the men in her family take turns dancing with her. It’s a very moving video and such a touching sentiment. God bless! *Have a tissue ready*