Mr. Common Grackle
Mr. Common Grackle picked a very uncommon place to get food in the backyard. Usually, places with smaller feeders are reserved for smaller birds. Go figure!
Mr. Common Grackle picked a very uncommon place to get food in the backyard. Usually, places with smaller feeders are reserved for smaller birds. Go figure!
“We are b-a-a-a-c-k!” First, I thought I got confused when I heard this in the chorus line in our backyard opera house this morning. All birds were singing their happy songs and all of...
Our neighborhood turned into a little opera house this morning. Local birds are singing their songs all over the place. You can hear voices of robins, grackles, sparrows, cardinals, finches, blackbirds… The songs overlap...
This is obviously a media staged shot of legendary Norbert Schemansky. Team USA just arrived to Helsinki for the 1952 Summer Olympics. Schemansky is 28. He is not Mr. Weightlifting yet. It will come...
History in Color: May 12, 1958 – Team CCCP coach Alexander Bozhko assists Vladimir Stogov before his lift in the bantamweight competition of the 1958 USA vs. USSR match in Chicago. John Terpack, Chuck...
Our backyard squirrels conducted a little Olympics this afternoon. It’s hard to say what discipline they were competing in. Sometimes it looked like freestyle wrestling. Sometimes – sprint runs. Then jumps. Then tree climbing....
Valery Shary of Minsk, Belarus just finished his attempt at the 1975 World Championship in Moscow. This was the first World title won by Shary. He finished first with the 357.5kg total (162.5+195). There...
The History in Color photo features Karlis Pumpurins of Riga, Latvia competing at the 1971 USSR Championships in Moscow, Russia. Karlis Pumpurins (b. 1941) was one of the graduates of Michael Freifeld’s weightlifting club...
The cover photo of our History in Color series presents Yurik Sarkisyan (1922-2004) and the graduates if his training school in Krasnodar Russia: Left to Right: Sergey Arakelov, Yurik Sarkisyan, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Mukharby Kirzhinov...