Sunday Stuff

My usual Sunday stroll resulted in some decent shots, for once. So many of my walks lately have only produced one, maybe two usable shots, so I was surprised to get 5 that passed quality control today. Let's see what we have...

A Slender Spreadwing damselfly in the Aspen grove in Ballard Park

Swamp Rose Mallow in the cattail swamp by Salt Marsh House

A wall of Impatiens in the front garden of Gooseberry Landing

Two baby Common Terns on Tern Rock yelling "Feed us! Feed us!"

A baby Common Tern seeing if its wings will do what the adults' do. Not quite yet!

And a bit of news... I just learned that folk legend Mike Seeger died Friday after a battle with cancer. He was 75. Mike was the half-brother of Pete Seeger. His main claim to fame was reviving and preserving the music of the backwoods South, and especially the music of Appalachia. He co-founded the New Lost City Ramblers in the late 1950s with John Cohen and Tom Paley, and they took their music to places where it wouldn't normally have been heard. They were a major inspiration to the infant Folk revival of the '50s and '60s. You can read an appreciation of Mike Seeger's life and work here.

Here's Mike in the Smithsonian Folkways Studio performing "Walking Boss" on an old fretless banjo back in 2007. Good-bye Mike; you'll be sorely missed.

PS -Don't forget to pop over to Just A Song for my entry on Gillian Welch's "Elvis Presley Blues".

Comments: 12

CC Miranda the artrat (or am i?) Aug 9, 2009, 6:27pm EDT

you get some of the best pictures i've ever seen.

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Michelle S. Aug 9, 2009, 6:37pm EDT

great pictures from your walk. absolutely love the video. that's the music i heard a lot as a child growing up in virginia. thanks for sharing. :)

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Marianne R. Aug 9, 2009, 6:40pm EDT

Nice photos, especially the damselfly. I am not familiar with the man who died though.

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Marilyn is looking for whatever there is. N. Aug 9, 2009, 6:46pm EDT

You surely get some of the most amazing photos. By the time I have my little camera ready, everythings' left!

Marilyn

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Sue * Aug 9, 2009, 7:21pm EDT

I would say they passed quality control...great photos. I don't usually like bug pictures...but that guy is very cool.

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Wilhelmine Estabrook Aug 9, 2009, 7:43pm EDT

Wow. I always called that a dragon fly. Wonderful pictures of the terns as well.
Oddly enough I watched a whole program of Pete Seeger, recorded in the early 1960s.

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JOHN BECK Aug 9, 2009, 9:03pm EDT

Beautiful--the whole thing, Roy.

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flit . Aug 9, 2009, 9:34pm EDT

for once, he says... like you don't get awesome shots all the time! these are definitely excellent though

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Tonia, who hugs trees G. Aug 9, 2009, 10:27pm EDT

That damselfly is just stunning! I so enjoy your walks :)

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Vicky Duggins Aug 9, 2009, 11:44pm EDT

Beautiful photos, Roy. I especially like the baby birds. Now I'll go listen to Elvis Presley Blues. For several days after hearing it I have it as an earworm, but I could do much worse.

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