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francoisvillon@societas.online

(Sittin' on) The Bench of the Lake

#archiveorg: https://archive.org/details/101674

I'm sittin' on the bench of the lake
watching the waterfowls awake
let the sun shine on my hat
never still remains the same

I'm just sittin' on the shore
waching the cormorants galore
and the grey heron flying away
this is never wasting time

(inspired by Otis Redding)

#Vögel #Reiher #Bergheim #Niederrhein #ToepperTegge #Rheinhausen #Duisburg #foto #photo #fotografie #photography #slideshow #slide #video #Animals #Birds #Aequornithes #GreyHerons

francoisvillon@societas.online

Frances Fuller Victor - A June Song

San Francisco, Cal., 1896.

O song-birds from the east,
And sea-birds from the west,
And great birds of the shining wing,
That in the northlands nest,
Come, sing to my red, red rose,
And my lilies saintly white,
To my golden poppies sing
Your throatful of delight;
Lilt on the swinging boughs
Of my accacia trees,
And pour your music out upon
The perfume-laden breeze.
Come, songsters of the wood,
And put my heart in tune
To the flowers and the sun
Of this happy land of June.

Cry out, O brave, bright birds
That soar, and swoop and swing
Above the sapphire sea
In a wild wassailing;
Drop down and flick the foam,
As the arrow flies when sped;
Laugh at your startled prey;
And scream to your mates o'erhead;
Be drunken with the joy
Of the sparkling air and brine,
With the glory of the day,
Its shadows and its shine;
With the color and the warmth
Of this June-land by the sea,
That you whirl above in play,
And you scream unto in glee.

Cry, O pilots of the air,
Leading to the lonely meads
By the quiet lakes and cold,
To the land of grass and reeds,
Twixt the northern mountains set
Like a picture in a frame,
In among the headlands bold;
Where the weird northlights flame,
Flashing through the evening sky;
Where the days are still and long,
And the hours are brief that roll—
Filled with murmurs of the song
Sung by cataracts and pines
To the fiercely glowing stars
Swinging round the northern pole—
Back the midnight's ebon bars.

O, winged creatures all,
Of the land or of the sea,
Of the west, or east, or south,
Bird or butterfly or bee,
Or the eagle of the crags,
Breathing of this air divine
Blowing from its maker's mouth,
Quickening the blood like wine,
Sing and cry unto this land,
To this sunland by the sea,
To the sea that bounds this shore
In a summer symphony—
Topaz wave and amber sand—
To this sapphire sea and sky,
To the mountains towering o'er
Vales where shimmering harvests lie;
To this joyous land and free,
To my flowers, and to my heart,
Sing a jocund jubilee—
June is sweet, and life is short.

Songsters of the Wood

#archiveorg: https://archive.org/details/098573
#peertube: https://video.ploud.fr/w/7v2yqZ8zavjveBxHUEo4ub
Music from the MIDI file of 1901 Cuckoo Waltz by Australian composer Thomas Bulch

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yew@diasp.eu

The yew-trees of Great Britain and Ireland

by John Lowe, 1897

This is a valuable resource for researching ancient yews in the UK. Photographs of some trees and many useful measurements taken at the time.

#Yew #trees #book #GB #JohnLowe #archiveorg... @Leyline @ramnath@nerdpol.ch @Stuart Duckworth @108madhuri@nerdpol.ch... and all yew #lover...

nebukadnezar@sechat.org

Schmetterlingsflieder mit Besuchern

#archiveorg: https://archive.org/details/088552
Buddleja davidii
Der Schmetterlingsflieder (Buddleja davidii), auch Sommerflieder, Gewöhnlicher Sommerflieder, Schmetterlingsstrauch oder Fliederspeer genannt, ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung Sommerflieder (Buddleja) in der Familie der Braunwurzgewächse (Scrophulariaceae). Mit den im Deutschen einfach als Flieder bezeichneten Ziersträuchern oder -bäumen aus der Familie der Ölbaumgewächse ist er nicht verwandt.
Wikipedia

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Schmetterlingsflieder mit Besuchern / Buddleja With Visitors

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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com

Internet Archive: Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public

To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later. ...

And for the pedants (we love you!):

A final note on calling this a “National Emergency” Library. We lend to the world, including these books. We chose that language deliberately because we are pegging the suspension of the waitlists to the duration of the US national emergency. Users all over the world have equal access to the books now available, regardless of their location.

http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/

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