From different parts of the world

  

My son traveled to Denmark to find this little friend.

Clay figures in a museum - Denmark

Another son took a trip to the Caribbean and saw this critter.

Dr. Jane Goodall, who I just learned, has prosopagnosia, which makes it difficult to recognize familiar faces.

In January 2025, Dr. Goodall was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. You can imagine which President awarded it to her.

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Today's quote:

Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs — only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. 

Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.
—Suzy Kassem  --

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An old photo:

Ceramic sculptures by Susan Wilkerson in Black Mountain at Red House Gallery

Sharing with Saturday's Critters!

And today is the 71st anniversary of Tolkien's publication of the Fellowship of the Ring, in the Lord of the Ring series. See this post to commemorate it.

Birds and painting with glazes on pots

 

First rose of 2025

Red bellied woodpecker from the internet

Painting on card "Four Sandhill Cranes" Bosque Del Apache, New Mexico. by SharonWolf@fone.net

Sandhill Crane with colts - from the internet

From the internet 

Large bluebird bowl by Barb Rogers

Ruby throated hummingbird, female

Hummingbird Platter by Barb Rogers

by Greg Chaney in Central Indiana from the internet

by Ana Maria Silva

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Today's Good News from Americans of Conscience

• Dauphin County, PA wipes out $65M of debt in prison-related fees for formerly incarcerated people, removing a barrier to successful re-entry.
• Chattanooga, TN becomes the first National Park City in the U.S.
• Chicago currently sources about 70% of power for its municipal operations from solar energy.
• The Black Women’s Health Imperative and several partners launch the Opill Access Fund, supplying eligible people with a free three-month supply of the first daily over-the-counter birth control pill available in the U.S.
• The Old Growth Forest Network recognizes 32 acres of old-growth forest within the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, containing trees estimated to be 300 years old.
• Paul Tazewell wins the best costume design Oscar for his work on Wicked, becoming the first Black man to win in that category.
• Public figures sell their Tesla vehicles in protest of the company owner’s unconstitutional meddling in federal agencies.
• Lake Champlain’s trout population returns to historic numbers.
• Cognitive scientists find that stark, straightforward visual representations of harm to the planet can break through climate apathy.
• Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stands up for Mexico’s sovereignty in response to the U.S. president’s attempts to assert influence over our neighboring country.
• Sierra Leone has reduced maternal death rates by almost 75% since 2000.
• For over 100 years Australia’s electorate has utilized ranked-choice voting to elect their members of Parliament.

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Today's quote:

Organic body cream/warbler/Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine/Emergency Alert System

More photo notes from Beyond Land Acknowledgement" a seminar of Tribal Native peoples given to white citizens who care... (Being posted on Living in Black Mountain blog)

Jamie Marie Spears was the only vendor who came to the seminar (she also sang and played the flute)

I loved this all organic body butter which came in a glass jar with a metal lid! (Hooray no plastic!)

I enjoyed sitting on this patio listening to a pair Red Eyed Vireos talking loudly from above us and in nearby trees...while others had people conversations together!

Someone sitting near me had an app to identify birds by their songs. I just looked on line to download that app for my phone, which I carry everywhere! Now I can at least learn who I'm hearing (birdwise) while I can't always see them!

I can't figure out (this is the limit of my tech skills) how to share a Vireo's speech, but I can give you the link to where it's posted!  I think we listened to these two sharing what's called the complex song. It was most enjoyable!

Now imagine seeing just the head, beak, and chest from 3 stories below the one we could see at the peak of the roof. Photo of Red Eyed Vireo by John Forbes. Searches I do are all through "Duck Duck Go" (not Google)

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Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine

The 2023 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Hungarian-born Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman for work that enabled the development mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

Their work, undertaken at the University of Pennsylvania, made it possible to develop vaccines based on genetic material called messenger RNA.

The scientists discovered that changing a chemical building block of mRNA – substituting pseudouridine for uridine — eliminated an inflammatory side effect that was a barrier to development of this new kind of vaccine.

They published their work 15 years before the COVID pandemic.

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And be aware that Wednesday this week...

Be prepared for your mobile phone to go off when FEMA and the FCC conduct a nationwide test of the Wireless Emergency Alert System at about 2:20 p.m. ET. And if you happen to also be watching TV or listening to the radio at that time, you'll get a double dose of alerts. Basically, don't schedule any meetings for that time.

A finch-y good morning

Sunday, first cuppa, watching out the window to see what the world has to offer. Hear the cheep cheep cheep of a bird, and when I look that direction, I see a beautiful house finch.

He's similar to the purple finches I used to see at my feeder. And he's happy right outside my window. I just forget the coffee and let it go cold. 

Then I notice Mrs. Finch is part of his interest, and I can just see her looking at him, seeing whether he is the right fellow I'm sure.

She flies toward his branch and she must have decided yes, for they take off over my roof to who know where. (Photos thanks to internet).

I keep an eye on the several pairs of squirrels doing their dances up and down the trunks of the trees. And continue to listen to birds talking up a storm. Speaking of which, we had steady rain all day yesterday, so I'm surprised the robins aren't out harvesting worms. They will be soon I imagine.

The sun is back, and within the time all the young pods of pollen dry  out, we will have to close windows just to be able to breathe without sneezing.  Until them, cool crisp clean air is much appreciated. Sigh.
 

Today's quote:

On the next rainy day, imagine the rain washing away and cleansing your emotional body.

By Daily Om

Tickle me...

with a feather, she might say.  Or how about a bit of goose down?

Canada Geese goslings, photo by Barbara Rogers

There's a prompt on Sepia Saturday with a photo of a young lady tickling a reclining gentleman, well, about to tickle him, because he's still reclining.  Come on over and check it out HERE.  I think I'll look into our fine feathered friends, since I haven't got a single old photo that comes close to this scene.

 Young Mallard ducks, photo by Barbara Rogers

Brown Pelicans feeding, photo by Barbara Rogers



Mockingbird, photo by Barbara Rogers

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Wood Ducks, Photo by Ramya Gleeson

 

Gosling, photo by Barbara Rogers

Seagull, photo by Barbara Rogers

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My personal archives include lots of things that aren't at all Sepian...just what's important to me that I wish to share and save in a blog.

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Maybe spring

A rainy Monday means clouds rather than mountains behind my house

My rather healthy vole population might be the cause of this wayward daffodil about 7 feet from any others.  I can't figure out any other way a bulb might have traveled that far on its own.

I'm hoping this is forsythia, because I cut a bunch of stems and brought them inside to force them to flower. 

I've been serenaded by wonderful birds going about their springtime duties.