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[Czevski]

Great blue herons are returning to their rookery in Wausau WI

 

[Czevski]

Great blue herons are returning to their rookery in Wausau WI.

 

[giradman]

Susan & I went to a traveling Smithsonian exhibit which is at our local Renoyda House - a little bio below (Source) - the paintings shown were both portraits of American Plains Indians that he visited and painted (and wrote about) in many trips in the 1830s, and many dramatic scenes of buffaloes (i.e. bison) - below just 4 paintings from many that we saw - leaves us in early May - if the exhibit comes to your area, then worth a visit - Dave

George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. By travelling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin is the first person to visually record Plains Indians in their native territory.

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[J. A.]

Hyde Park

 

[giradman]

Hi Johanna - assume that Speaker's Corner is still active at Hyde Park? Dave
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[J. A.]

Hi Johanna - assume that Speaker's Corner is still active at Hyde Park? Dave
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It still exists.

 

[scifan57]

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Hyde Park

Nice squirrel.

 

[J. A.]

Nice squirrel.

And not shy at all.
A graduate from your Academy?

 

[Czevski]

Rookery park is bird busy today. In addition to the great bue herons, over 100 tundra swans plus a few eagles, buffleheads, Canada geese, mallards and others are flying through or finding a place to nest.

 

[scifan57]

And not shy at all.
A graduate from your Academy?

Possibly, we have a lot of foreign exchange students.

 

[The OB]

Rookery park is bird busy today. In addition to the great bue herons, over 100 tundra swans plus a few eagles, buffleheads, Canada geese, mallards and others are flying through or finding a place to nest.View attachment 63718View attachment 63719View attachment 63720

Enjoying those bird photos Czevski. Made me think we also have some buffleheads in Australia....one cut me off when changing lanes yesterday, nearly causing an accident if I hadn't braked hard
Andrew

 

[J. A.]

My daughter at the Greenwich meridian

 

[scifan57]

My daughter at the Greenwich meridian
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A very nice photo. Your daughter looks like she's enjoying being in two hemispheres at the same time.

 

[J. A.]

A very nice photo. Your daughter looks like she's enjoying being in two hemispheres at the same time.

Thank you!
We both had fun when I took the picture.

 

[giradman]

Well, I was just looking at the recent posts in Johanna's London Trip, and she put up a pic of a white horse on a hill that reminded me of a famous carving in a mountain in northern Georgia (i.e. USA) near Atlanta.

In Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta is a stone sculpture (description below from the linked website) w/ some horses on a mountain side dedicated to the Confederate honorees quoted below - 3 pics chosen zooming in on the impressive work - note that the entire carved surface is larger that two American football fields (which are 100 yards long) - Dave

The largest bas relief sculpture in the world, the Confederate Memorial Carving depicts three Confederate leaders of the Civil War, President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (and their favorite horses, "Blackjack", "Traveller", and "Little Sorrel", respectively). The entire carved surface measures 3 acres (12,000 m2), about the size of two and a quarter football fields. The carving of the three men towers 400 feet (120 m) above the ground, measures 90 by 190 feet (58 m), and is recessed 42 feet (13 m) into the mountain. The deepest point of the carving is at Lee's elbow, which is 12 feet (3.7 m) to the mountain's surface.

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