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In the written score for John Cage's experimental work titled 4'33", the musicians are told to remain tacet for four minutes and thirty-three seconds.

388

Tacet: that is, not to play their instruments at all.“

✍️Colum McCann, Apeirogon

At last

A group of puffins on a rock, with one landing

three puffins taling off from the sea and makign a splash

Morning World. For today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme #WhatTheFlock, some Puffins I photographed yesterday on the Farne Islands, NE England #Bird #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #EastCoastKind #Puffin

A Charm of Goldfinches for today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #WhatTheFlock any capture of three or more of the same bird.
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Cranes for today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #WhatTheFlock any capture of three or more of the same bird.
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When you meet up with old friends reminded that the passage of time waits for no one. Good or bad in the end we become distant memories until we fade even from those whom could recall our name. Make the most of your days, give those that love you something to remember💚 *My image of a beautiful older dog that I’d met a few times previously while out wandering around this country of mine. He’s older thicker slower and more beautiful with age making me saddened to think that perhaps I might not see him again. *Location : Cannons Creek Victoria #Australia #EastCoastKin #OldFriends #Photography #Photo #BlueSkyArtShow #Dog #PhotographersUnited #BkueSky #life

When you meet up with old friends reminded that the passage of time waits for no one.
Good or bad in the end we become distant memories until we fade even from those whom could recall our names.
Make the most of your days,give those that love you something to remember💚
#EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow

The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Yes, they are very smart.

I observed one outside my window the other day. Didn’t fetch my camera because I knew the bird would be gone by the time I came back.
They are so adorable.

For today‘s #BirdOfTheDay Alt Theme #Turdidae:
🪶Redwing, female and male, last spring. Haven’t seen them around this year, yet.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ComeEatWithMe
What this 🪶Hooded Crow really wants to say is: open that nut for me!
Not sure it‘s going to share once that has been accomplished.

“‘…One thing I have to tell the others is that we know nothing?‘
- ‘What do you mean, sir?'
- ‘Just what I say. We're children playing with dynamite.‘“
✍️Madeleine L‘Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

This is interesting. I learned (and observed) that when it comes to Crows there was this shed between West and East: Hooded Crows only in the North-East of Germany and the Eastern European countries, Carrion Crows in West and Western European countries.

„Mrs Whatsit had said, 'Meg, I give you your faults.' What were her greatest faults? Anger, impatience, stubbornness.“
✍️Madeleine L‘Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

#birdoftheday
#ABCD
#CaptureThis
„What do YOU think you’re doing out on the lawn at this time of the day? Can’t you see, I‘m having DINNER?“
🪶Eurasian Blackbird

#BookWormSat
„It was a warm night at Castle Caladan, and the ancient pile of stone that had served the Atreides family as home for twenty-six generations bore that cooled-sweat feeling it acquired before a change in the weather.“
✍️Frank Herbert, Dune
📷 Château Gaillard of Richard Lionheart,Normandie

#BookWormSat
„Im ganzen entsprach das Schloss, wie es sich hier von der Ferne zeigte, K.s Erwartungen.“
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„Altogether the castle, as seen in the distance, lived up to K.'s expectations.“

✍️Kafka, Das Schloss / The Castle

“IT was a brain.
A disembodied brain. An oversized brain, just enough larger than normal to be completely revolting & terrifying. A living brain. A brain that pulsed & quivered, that seized & commanded […]. IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen.“
✍️M. L‘Engle, Wrinkle

Olaf Nicolai, La Lotta

Sunrise.

#bookwormsat
"‘When the sun shines on the north front of Sherton Abbey--that's when my happiness will come to me!‘ said he, staring as it were into the earth.“
✍️Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders

Some Mallard ducklings for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #DucksOutOfWater, any Duck that is out of the water but NOT FLYING
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Duck outside a door with a sign: "do not let the duck in"

I would definitely

“Everybody knows our city has the best Central Intelligence Centre on the planet. Our production levels are the highest. Our factories never close; our machines never stop rolling. Added to this we have 5 poets, 1 musician, 3 artists, & 6 sculptors, all perfectly channelled.“
✍️ M. L‘Engle, Wrinkle

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #FeederFriends birds you might see at your feeder.
Black Redstart, male.
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“Not density OR trees, density AND trees.” “Better cities are climate action.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. Background image of very high density street in Yaletown, in downtown Vancouver. Double row of street trees, plus yard trees, plus trees in the bike lane separator, for a total of five rows of trees along the street edge.

Not density OR trees. Density AND trees.

Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth

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'I like to understand things,' Meg said.
'We all do. But it isn't always possible.'“
✍️Madeleine L‘Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

"‘Do you think things always have an explanation?‘
'Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.‘
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