Leslie Lambert

@lspacediva3

Retired library circ specialist in Metro ATL, by way of Cincinnati, OK, and New Orleans. Currently engaged in kicking cancer a little farther down the road. Posting over coffee from the #BirdPorch. She/her

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Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· 24d

Himself came around and submitted to some morning skritches. 🥰 #BirdPorch #Caturday

A smoky gray tom cat, stretched out on a row of pavers in front of muddy garden bed.

Front view of gray cat semi-snoozing in the morning sunlight on garden pavers, with orange and yellow marigolds and green grass

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· 25d

This will always be my favorite version of the Iliad and the Odyssey: Jane Werner Watson's 1956 adaptation for Giant Golden Books, gorgeously illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen. My uncle gave it to me for my 9th birthday and I've read it at least hundred times.

Reddish cover of the 1956 Giant Golden Book edition of the Iliad and the Odyssey, featuring a drawing of three warriors on horseback in ancient Greek style crested helmets. Across the bottom edge is a decorative freize with a crenellated pattern and whorls.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· 26d

Our neighbor cat, who we call Greystoke. He is a sweetie!

A smoky gray tom cat with yellow eyes, looking up at the camera from in front of a brick porch ledge.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· 28d

In for my infusion now, but feeling pretty good: Greystoke, as we call him, is now my buddy. After these photos he went over on his back to be petted and rolled off the ledge... 😄

Smoky gray cat lying in his side on a brick ledge, looking up at the camera.

Gray cat lying on a brick ledge, being skritched by an old white woman who thinks he's a sweetie. 😊

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· 29d

Part of the reason this is a Monday-er Monday than usual: it's the 14th anniversary of my dad's passing on the night of July 12th, the eve of my sister's birthday, which complicates the feelings, to say the least. It was nice to be reminded yesterday of good times with him, specifically art work. 🥰

My dad! 😄 A 30-something young dark haired white man with dark framed glasses, seated at a lighted drawing table, drawing a cartoon style pig for animation for some ad or other. From sometime in the early to mid 1960s.

My dad again, now 70ish with white hair and beard and wire frame glasses, smiling, wearing a Gennett Records t-shirt and holding two Columbia label 78rpm records on each shoulder. A wall of shelves behind him contains beaucoups of other 78s. He had a collection of probably 3000+ discs, some of which I now own. ❤️

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· 29d

When you're retired but Monday is still Monday. Might need a refill... ☕️😜

A large coffee cup with lid and a cardboard sleeve which reads The Corner Cup Coffee.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jul 12

One of my favorites, our tree hydrangea, is in glorious and fragrant bloom today. #BirdPorch

White bloom cluster on a tree hydrangea: small, four-petaled flowers centered with what looks like tiny pearls.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jul 11

One of the neighborhood ruffians, dubbed "Greystoke" by my husband, has been too skittish to approach, but the past two days he has stayed put till I got very close, and even rolled over and stretched at one point, very obviously flirting. Maybe we can be friends?... 🥰 #Caturday

A smoky gray cat with greenish yellow eyes, lounging somewhat warily on a cement block retaining wall near a tomato plant and a banana tree leaf.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jul 9

Jeez, these soccer commentators really talk nonstop, don't they... 😬

Spock and McCoy working to modify a photo torpedo in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, while Bones says, "I'd give real money if he'd shut up."

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jul 7

In happier news, I received this terrific #BookPost a couple of days ago, The Forgotten Five: Escape From the Contingency, newsprint nostalgia edition, complete with a cover by our friend, Scott Brooks! 🥳 @alexsegura.com

Cover of The Forgotten Five: Escape From the Contingency comic, showing five superhero figures with fierce expressions bursting through a thick wall.

Closeup of Scott R. Brooks' cover artist signature, "SRB after Cockrum +Austin '26"

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jul 4

We're having a sunshower. 🌦😄

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jul 4

I got flowers unexpectedly from one of my oldest online friends, with a note saying, "Just sending you love and sunshine." 🥰

A bouquet of various lovely pink flowers in a glass vase.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jul 3

I have the sweetest friends! A completely unexpected delivery this afternoon. 😍💐

A bouquet of various pink flowers (roses, carnations, alstromeria, baby's breath) with green leaves, in a waffle patterned glass jar.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jul 2

Tucker GA current weather screen: 91F feels like 102. Still, I'm sitting under the ceiling fan on the #BirdPorch for as long as I can stand it, because it's dark smothery inside.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jul 1

Took a stroll at Tucker Town Green after coffee at The Corner Cup this morning and saw them setting up for the US vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina World Cup watch party tonight. If only it were going to be about 20 degrees cooler, we might be tempted to go... Bonus: kids' chalk drawings on the sidewalk.

Giant black viewing screen on a trailer, set up at the edge of a greenspace. Train tracks behind it could make for interesting sound effects during the soccer game. ⚽️

What appear to be kids' chalk drawings of stylized vampire bats with smiling mouths full of pointy teeth, on a concrete sidewalk.

Chalk hopscotch game drawn on a concrete sidewalk

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jul 1

Happy #CanadaDay to all my folks either there or from there. You make the world, and my world in particular, a better place! 🥰

Graphic of eed and white balloons with the Canada maple leaf on them, with white "fireworks" around them and red ribbon dangling from them.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 29

On top of a head cold, 95F temps, and the relentlessly bonkers news, I am reminded today that I am older than the US Interstate Highway System. 🙄😂

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 28

Happy Sunday, Womble! Still taking my time with Molly Crabapple's Here Where We Live Is Our Country (the brain fog is hard even on the best nonfiction, and I don't want to miss a word!) There's a lovely pile to pick from after that, with Ali Trotta's latest poetry collection next.

A stack of TBR books, including James S.A. Corey's The Faith of Beasts, Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer, Where We Stand, Where We Fall by Lizbeth Kyle's, Radiant Star by Ann Leckie, Seasons of Glass & Iron, by Amal El-Mohtar, and Offerings for Ordinary God's by Ali Trotta. So many books, so little time!

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 27

Surprised and very pleased to receive this lovely #BookPost from @alwayscoffee.bsky.social much earlier than expected!

Paperback copy of Ali Trotta poetry collection, Offerings for Ordinary Gods. The almost black cover features a figure with face half obscured by a red hood, dark red lips parted, with hands palms up and a misty spiral twisting up between them.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 27

I have become addicted to Wyler's Italian Ice freezer pops...

A long clear plastic tube containing red frozen ice pop, with the words Wyler's Italian Ices printed on it.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 26

The witch's hat is still the worst one to me: one person would hang on one side, and three or four others on the other side would swing them around ten feet off the ground. Fun times! 😬

A conical metal frame hung on a pivot point of a metal pole, shaped like a pointed hat. It swings around in a circle and also can be pulled up and down.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 26

Our regular morning visitor these days. He's letting me get closer than usual, but with the same baleful eye. The mister has named him Greystoke. 😏

A gray cat "loafing" on top of a Cinderella block retaining wall in a green lawn, framed by a banana tree and tomato plant. He is staring balefully at the camera.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 24

I'm going to want to rewatch the entire series again after reading this, aren't I?... 🙃 #BookPost

Hardback copy of Where We Stand, Where We Fall - the politics of Doctor Who, by Lizbeth Myles. Dark blue, rocky planetary surface with a far off cityscape glittering with lights, and a rocky moon overhead in the night sky.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 23

Deep in the post-infusion doldrums this afternoon, but here's a positive from our recent trip to Oklahoma: Larsen Music is still there, in the same place after 90 years! So many other things have changed or are gone altogether that it was great to see it. 🎉🎶🎸

The Larsen Music storefront, with the business name in large yellow letters and a sign below stating: 90 YEARS OF SERVING OKC!

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 21

Happy Father's Day to my husband, who will absolutely wear this insane hat to do yard work. Which is why we got it for him, because we are insane too. 😏

An grinnjng older white man sitting at a dining room table, wearing a khaki sun hat with two little solar powered fans in the brim. Yes, mistakes were made... 🙄😄

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 20

One more photo from the lovely Philbrook garden. I kept hearing Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony playing in my head - thanks, Disney. 😏 #BlueSkyArtShow

Green-domed, white pillared gazebo/folly at the foot of the Philbrook Museum garden.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 20

The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, OK, from our trip last week. Incredibly beautiful place, with a great collection. #BlueSkyArtShow

View of an Italianate mansion with red tiled roof from the tree-lined garden below. Thin white clouds veil the blue sky.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 19

A chunk of tree came down in the back yard while we were away, and this imposing stag beetle was in it! The mister placed him safely in the bushes. Makes me think twice about walking around barefoot... 👀 #BirdPorch #BugSky

Brown beetle with long "horns" sticking out from its head, clinging to a thin, leafy branch of a tree being held by a man's gloved hand.

Same stag beetle, closer up. He's very shiny and looks almost like he's made of polished wood.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 17

The Black Keys Peaches 'N Cream Tour 2026 equipment truck, parked at the I-40 eastbound rest area outside of Palestine, Arkansas. The band was not in attendance, as far as we could tell. 😉 #RoadTrip

Back doors of a semi truck, painted with the words THE BLACK KEYS, Peaches 'n Cream Tour 2026

Semi parked at an interstate rest area, with the word Peaches! written in very large pale yellow letters on a dark background along the whole length of the trailer.

Leslie Lambert@lspacediva3· Jun 16

Revisiting the past is exhausting, but look what was over the front door of the church in NW Oklahoma City where we got married! 😍🎉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️