Night Music, ANN MILLER - "IM STILL HERE" from FOLLIES

Toad Tuesday

Falcon 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A falcon  is a member of the genus Falco, which includes about 40 species. Falcons are widely distributed on all continents of the world except Antarctica.

Adult falcons have thin, tapered wings, which enable them to fly at high speed and to change direction rapidly. Fledgling falcons, in their first year of flying, have longer flight feathers, which make their configuration more like that of a general-purpose bird such as a broad wing. This makes it easier to fly while learning the exceptional skills required to be effective hunters as adults.

The falcons are the largest genus in the Falconinae subfamily of Falconidae, which itself also includes another subfamily comprising caracaras and a few other species. All these birds kill with their beaks, using a "tooth" on the side of their beaks—unlike the hawks, eagles, and other birds of prey in the Accipitridae, which use their feet.

The largest falcon is the gyrfalcon at up to 65 cm in length. The smallest falcons are the kestrels, of which the Seychelles kestrel measures just 25 cm. As with hawks and owls, falcons exhibit sexual dimorphism, with the females typically larger than the males, thus allowing a wider range of prey species.^[1]

Some small falcons with long, narrow wings are called "hobbies", and some which hover while hunting are called "kestrels".

As is the case with many birds of prey, falcons have exceptional powers of vision; the visual acuity of one species has been measured at 2.6 times that of a normal human.Peregrine falcons have been recorded diving at speeds of 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), making them the fastest-moving creatures on Earth.

Falconcam

These videos show hawks rather than falcons but the methods are similar.

Horus is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities. He was worshipped from at least the late prehistoric Egypt until the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt. Different forms of Horus are recorded in history and these are treated as distinct gods by Egyptologists. These various forms may possibly be different perceptions of the same multi-layered deity in which certain attributes or syncretic relationships are emphasized, not necessarily in opposition but complementary to one another, consistent with how the Ancient Egyptians viewed the multiple facets of reality. He was most often depicted as a falcon, most likely a lanner falcon or peregrine falcon, or as a man with a falcon head.

The earliest recorded form of Horus is the tutelary deity of Nekhen in Upper Egypt, who is the first known national god, specifically related to the king who in time came to be regarded as a manifestation of Horus in life and Osiris in death. The most commonly encountered family relationship describes Horus as the son of Isis and Osiris, and he plays a key role in the Osiris myth as Osiris's heir and the rival to Set, the murderer of Osiris. In another tradition Hathor is regarded as his mother and sometimes as his wife. Horus served many functions, most notably being a god of the sky, war and hunting.

Night Music ~ Janet Baker - Martini's Plaisir d'amour

Molly and Todd (with BG) on Monday

 Well this is different.  Molly hurt her leg playing with Todd.  She started limping and I was really worried about her whether or not she might have a broken leg.  So I called Dr. Bright and  since my ringer was not on it took a little to get connected.

Since Dr. Bright just lives just up the street to see us she came in the morning and checked her out.

 Dr. Bright picked her up to Story City for x-rays and it turned out to be a bad sprain.  But it is hard for her compose her blog.

Todd is still too young to be able to blog so I get to help.

Molly has two types of pills to take one at noon and the other three times a day so Nurse BG gets to do that and he has a nice bed for her.

Theresa came to see clean out house and it needed it.

 She loves to give Molly and Todd scratches on their ears and loving.

Todd is getting better and better but he has still trouble chewing.  Now he is wanting to chew the new bed.  But I put the blanket on the two beds and hopefully that will stop the chewing.

 Todd is not sure about all of this.  He wants to play and I won't them play any until Molly gets better.  She is still walking like an old lady.  But since I do also we can use an expression of my mother's.  We are Crip and Crap.  Molly is very stoic and Todd just does not understand why she won't play with us.

But we will get through it.

With the Dentist bill(two cavities), the car license, and estimated taxes due this month the old wallet is slim.


Hey look,  We got snow.

The kids are happy about it.

It won't last but looks nice now.

And here is one more picture.  I have never seen them in this situation before.  

So Sweet!

Jon and Liz will be here later this month, we are looking to see them.

Hopefully Molly can do her own blogging next week or the next.  Thanks for reading this,

Night Music ~ Queen - "We Are the Champions" Acapella (Vocals Only) Concert Mash-Up

Apiarian,

"Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect."  

- Thomas Jefferson

"Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated."

~Terry Tempest Williams

"But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its head-kerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too."

~W. E. B. Du Bois

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

~Tahereh Mafi

"Whatever happens in life happens to make you stronger. So fear not, accept it as a gift from the universe. Use the event to capture the essence of this journey we call life."

―Debases Mridha

Words are windows, or they're walls,

They sentence us, or set us free.

When I speak and when I hear,

Let the love light shine through me.

~Ruth Bebermeyer

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone."

~Edith Wharton

"Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty."

~ Albert Einstein

Out of the darkness, out of the night,

May I find joy and all that is right:

Open my eyes, so I'll see the light

That comes when we have spiritual sight."

~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation"

Marcus Tullius Cicero