Alex took this photograph.
He perfectly captured the beauty of this wave.
A Cape Verdes wave
Category: Art
The Full Moon
The first one of 2025.
The following photograph was taken by yours truly on the 12th January at 17.19 Oregon time.
It was a stunning combination of the moon and the hills and the evening sky.
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The balance of the photos taken on the property.
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More from Unsplash!
Photo by James Padolsey on Unsplash
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Photo by David Taffet on Unsplash
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Photo by Thomas Lipke on Unsplash
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Photo by Rebekah Howell on Unsplash
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Photo by JAGADEESHWARAN P on Unsplash
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Photo by Luzelle Cockburn on Unsplash
That is all for this week.
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The death of Quincy Jones.
A musical legend is dead.
Back in the late 1950s when my mother remarried after my father’s death, ‘Dad’, as he was called when he came to live at Toley Avenue, Preston Road, London, taught me how to construct a radio receiver made from a crystal, a crystal set. I have this memory of listening to Quincy Jones on my crystal set and loving the rhythm.
The BBC have a great tribute to the star, and I republish just a small part of that tribute:
“Music is sacred to me,” Quincy Jones once said. “Melody is God’s voice.”
He certainly had the divine touch.
Jones, who had died at the age of 91, was the right-hand man to both Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson, and helped to shape the sound of jazz and pop over more than 60 years.
His recordings revolutionised music by crossing genres, promoting unlikely collaborations and shaping modern production techniques.
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These pictures were sent to me by a person whose name I could not read!
Shame, I would have liked to name the individual for being so kind.
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These are superb! Hopefully there will be other pictures.
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Just the one photograph for today.
I have been a follower of Ugly Hedgehog for some years.
Last Sunday ‘Alphadog’ posted this photograph taken on Route 66, the Antares Road, in Kingman, Arizona. It is reproduced here with Richard’s full permission.
Copyright (C) 2024 Richard Chirichillo.
It is a stunning photograph.
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Back to dogs!
Photo by Harshit Suryawanshi on Unsplash
Photo by Peter Muniz on Unsplash
Photo by Aldo Houtkamp on Unsplash
Again, a photo by Aldo Houtkamp on Unsplash
Again, a very beautiful selection by yours truly!
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My son, Alex, took the following photographs of the Aurora..
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They are fabulous. Especially so because as it happened we had mainly cloud cover here in Southern Oregon.
To close, here is an extract from yesterday’s BBC website:
On Thursday night, the stunning colours of the Northern Lights were visible once again even to the naked eye across much of the US.
Experts say the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are more visible right now due to the sun being at what astronomers call the “maximum” of its 11-year solar cycle.
What this means is that roughly every 11 years, at the peak of this cycle, the sun’s magnetic poles flip, and the sun transitions from sluggish to active and stormy. On Earth, that’d be like if the North and South Poles swapped places every decade.
“At its quietest, the sun is at solar minimum; during solar maximum, the sun blazes with bright flares and solar eruptions,” according to Nasa, the US space agency.
The current 11-year cycle, the 25th since records began in 1755, started in 2019 and is expected to peak next year.
Learning from Dogs 