Friday, September 16, 2011 3:04:38 AM
music, instrument, flute choir, contrabass
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I play in a couple local flute choirs. These are some MP3's from a recital one of the groups did about a year ago. There may be quite a bit of a delay after you hit the play button before it actually starts to play (the myopera file server is running slow at this time).
Flourishes, Kathy Farmer
Allegro Molto from Symphony No. 8, Joseph Haydn
Birdflight, Nancy Telfer
March Minature, from Suite No. 1, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Heads Up, from Super Flutes Jazz Suite, Bill Holcombe
Slavonic Dance, No. 1, Antonin Dvorak
Flutes and Vegetables, Jonathan Cohen
Rhumba, Michael Coolen
Slavonic Dance, No. 8, Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance, No. 10, Antonin Dvorak
Sunday, July 31, 2011 2:08:22 AM
insect bug cicada locust molting
It's cicada season...the time of the year when the cicadas emerge from underground to shed their skins and begin their adult life. As a kid, I would go out and gather up sackfuls of these things. It gave me something to do. LOL This fellow was clinging onto some brush I was cleaning up in our front yard.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 12:32:29 AM
snow goose, snow geese, geese, goose
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I grew up near Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area. Middle Creek is owned by the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The area is a favorite stopping point for large numbers of migratory waterfowl. Every year, thousands of Canada geese, snow geese, tundra swans and all kinds of ducks. When we were visiting my family in Pennsylvania last month, we stopped at Middle Creek to watch the snow geese. It was an impressive sight.
Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:39:26 PM
church, sign, methodist, united methodist
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Thou Shalt Not Park Here! I had a rehearsal at a local church today. They were also hosting a large conference of some sort, and the parking lots were filled to capacity. They must have had trouble in the past with people parking in inconvenient/hazardous places, so they had a bunch of these signs all along the driveways. I couldn't resist taking a pic. LOL
Thursday, November 25, 2010 9:43:45 PM
thanksgiving, turkey, occelated turkey, fowl
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This is not our dinner for tonight. We ran across this guy on a visit to Mexico a few years ago. He was enamored with our rented VW beetle. :-)
Friday, October 22, 2010 1:44:48 AM
instrument, focalink, ocarina, woodwind
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My latest ocarina is a WangYue model from Focalink Ocarinas. It's an alto 6-hole pendant ocarina pitched in C. I'll try to get a decent video or soundclip up shortly.
Wikipedia has a fairly good article on the history of the ocarina for those of you who might be interested in that. :-)
Thursday, September 16, 2010 6:22:09 PM
instrument, focalink, songbird, ocarina
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My latest instrument purchases all came from Songbird Ocarinas. I'm trying to expand my ocarina arsenal. The eagle bone flute and the Dragon Tooth ocarina are both creations by Durian Songbird. The pendant ocarina on the right is by Focalink Ocarinas and sold by Songbird Ocarinas.
The ocarina has been in existence for thousands of years. It's had a recent popularity boost from the video "The Legends of Zelda" which apparently features an ocarina.
The eagle bone flute is not an ocarina however. It's a flute/whistle tuned to the Native American pentatonic scale. And of course, it is not an actual bone from an eagle, it's a copy done in ceramic.
The Dragon Tooth is a 12-hole alto ocarina in C. It sounds really good and looks pretty amazing. It comes with a nice acrylic display stand, chain and songbook.
The small teardrop pendant on the right is a 6-hole soprano ocarina in G. It has an amazing sound.
Sunday, August 8, 2010 1:18:52 AM
I've been busy uploading the pics from our recent trip to the Yucatan. This guy was lounging on the ruins of a temple at the Mayan site of Cobá. We rented a car for a day and drove down there from Cancun. It was a great site with lots of birds, animals and ruins.
Friday, June 25, 2010 11:47:20 PM
bluejay, jay, baby bird, bird
OK, it's really a baby Blue Jay doing his best vulture imitation. There are lots of young birds and animals in our yard at the moment. This little blue jay still has most of its baby fluff, but enough regular feathers that it can fly a little. There are more pics on flickr. :-)
Sunday, March 21, 2010 1:10:51 AM
cardinal, northern cardinal, northerncardinal, bird
It was over 70 degrees today, and the birds were enjoying an afternoon of cooling off in the birdbath. This male cardinal just finished his "bath". :-)
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