HAPPY NEW WEEK and HAPPY NEW MONTH and HAPPY FULL SUPERMOON!
I hope everyone has a wonderful week. Sunday is the Full Moon, and it's a so-called Supermoon (the full moon near lunar perigee).
Here's a Cooper's Hawk like Annette has in her garden. I thought of her when I saw this photo.
Cooper's HawkSeedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming USAU.S. Fish and Wildlife ServicePhoto labeled Public Domain (Copyright-Free)
Oh dear, Clare ... I'm so sorry, but that made me cringe. I remember singing that carol - the traditional version - in Bethlehem on a blazing hot day ... it will be somewhere in the archives of 'Songs of Praise', and every time I hear it I'm transported straight back there. I guess I just have to admit I'm a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas music ... hey ho! (Actually, I'm a traditionalist/classicist in most of my musical taste - but someone has to be!)
Pat O said:I remember singing that carol - the traditional version - in Bethlehem on a blazing hot day
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Wow Clare with you on the school thing..
Church school and always got told off for singing the wrong words..
Shepherds socks etc :-)))
Unknown said: Wow Clare with you on the school thing.. Church school and always got told off for singing the wrong words.. Shepherds socks etc :-)))
It didn't matter whether I sang the right words or not - I couldn't sing at all (and I still can't).
I did get a happy ending though - when I was at high school arsonists burnt my old school down. I was staggered when I learned that they weren't ex-pupils.
None of that white stuff for an Aussie C-mas. An Aussie north wind is hot, unless it is very hot! So here is an Aussie C-mas carol.
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The north wind is tossing the leaves. / The red dust is over the town; / The sparrows are under the eaves, / And the grass in the paddock is brown; / As we lift up our voices and sing, / To the Christ-child the heavenly King.
The tree ferns in green gullies sway; / The cool stream flows silently by; / The joy bells are greeting the day, / And the chimes are adrift in the sky, / As we lift up our voices and sing, / To the Christ-child the heavenly King.
[Words by John Wheeler, Music by William G James]
Another from Aussieland. Carol of the Birds.
Out on the plains the brolgas are dancing / Lifting their feet like warhorses prancing / Up to the sun the woodlarks go winging / Faint in the dawn light echoes their singing / Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day.
Down where the tree ferns grow by the river / There where the waters sparkle and quiver \ Deep in the gullies bell-birds are chiming \ Softly and sweetly their lyric notes rhyming \ Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day.
Friar birds sip the nectar of flowers / Currawongs chant in wattle tree bowers / In the blue ranges lorikeets calling / Carols of bush birds rising and falling / Orana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day.
[Orana is an aboriginal word for dawn or welcome.]
Lovely, Aquilareen. I love the frequent references to wildlife in the songs.
That is lovely AQ. The pictures are good too. Love the tree ferns.
Clare grammar school was all girl .. geez I was ireally not meant to be there..
Contrary to belief I didn’t turn out too badly..
PS totally banned from singing ..
Know every word from Eucharist Even song and normal hyms .. just mime well !!
Oh, AQ, the Carol of the Birds is beautiful! So lovely. So much better than the music on my radio right now.