YIKES, Lou!    Ya think my relationship with Rhea Mae would qualify me for crossing the border permanently?
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I refuse to not respond on the basis that my response may incriminate me. (I need an emoticon that has a yellow blobhead figure with a zippered lip.)  Also, I've been a member too long to not know that we don't really get into political banter on the falcon board. Hah!

Lou

PS Where's my tea?   

I like the site, but there's a couple of ads bashing our next President.

Lou

Larry,
It's the hips, definitely the hips.
Lou

Lou,
When you are doing this around the house, what drives Dana crazier?
1. You yodeling
2. You shaking the hips.
Larry O ;<)

Yippee is right! This calls for a round of happy yodeling by the world's greatest yodeler, Franzl Lang!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67rc96joOz8

Lou

A perfect way to celebrate!  I am one of perhaps three people in the world who enjoys listening to yodeling!!

Gayle

yippee!!!   

Yippee is right! This calls for a round of happy yodeling by the world's greatest yodeler, Franzl Lang!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67rc96joOz8

Lou

Don't know if you've seen this, but it's worth passing on again.

http://storyofstuff.org/bottledwater/

Lou

I am surprised that Juergen Pfleiderer from Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany only got an Honorable Mention for his Radula of Buccinum undatum when it is clearly superior to the Sonchus asper flower stem section submitted by Gerd A. Guenther from Düsseldorf, Germany. I can understand the accolades for the Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) anther and the wrinkled photoresist, but Radulas are just so much more difficult to photograph than damn Sonchus asper sections! 

Does anybody agree with me or am I out there all alone?

Lou

Cool. Check out the raptor pictures in the Earth News section of the BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8585000/8585931.stm

Lou

The pic below also may help.

Here is a full map of Rochester that seems pretty recent:
http://www.rochesterdowntown.com/downloads/rochester_downtown_map.pdf

Lou

PS Check out this Rochester Subway site. I came across it as I was looking for a good map of downtown Rochester. It's interesting that the subway might have run from Pittsford to Charlotte Beach.  After looking at some of the info here, I just can't help but feel that Rochester has gone backwards in may ways. 

http://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/

Just wanted to share some pictures I took this evening. Most of the pics were taken from Aqueduct Park, a small area that's only a few steps away from where we've been hanging out on the Broad Street bridge. It's one alternative to consider if the Broad Street bridge becomes difficult to watch from while the construction is going on.

http://tinyurl.com/ygrrfb6

Lou

that's a REALLY good watch, Lou!

The way Archer's carrying that woodpecker is so iconic...like a kid would draw it, beak down.
 
Also - I have to admit that after seeing Jim's shot of Beauty on Mercury's foot, I had a few seconds of wondering what anatomical bit of Mercury his moneybag might be.

Thanks!

The moneybag is in his hand, Dale. Does that help?

Lou

  Good shots Lou! It was nice to meet you and Dana.   

You too, MAK!

Article in today's D&C:

http://tinyurl.com/ygpgeeh

Lou

For the kid within each of us this Easter...

http://vimeo.com/1084537

Lou

Just sharing a video of a virtual choir. 185 people from different countries submitted videos of themselves singing solo soprano, tenor, or bass tracks of a composition created by an Eric Whitacre, then they got remixed into this youtube video of a virtual choir. Beautiful and inspiring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs

Lou

Hope this isn't a concern for future Osprey nest sites.

The Osprey nest that was on the communication tower near us on Curtis Road in Greece has been removed. Below are a couple of pictures - one from last year and one taken recently. This was a well-established nest so I don't think that it was a nature-related removal.

Dana and I have been driving by occasionally to see if the Ospreys have returned to see their home removed, but we haven't seen anything.

We'll continue checking it out and report any developments. If any.

Lou