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Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features Texas bluesman, guitarist, fiddler, harmonica player and all around amazing musician, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. Enjoy!
Clarence Gatemouth Brown + Canned Heat - Please Mr. Nixon
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
-- Mark Twain
News and Opinion Holiday photos
I didn't have the time or energy left to put together news for tonight, so instead, it's holiday weekend show and tell...
I got up really early well, pretty early this morning to see if I could get some photos of bald eagles fishing in one of the rivers near where I grew up. I also saw a lot of other cool birds, including a great blue heron that put up with me shooting pictures of him 30-40 feet away while he was busy fishing.
I wasn't able to get as close to the bald eagles as I was hoping, because the water was really low in the river, but I did get a few decent shots like this one:
Here's a couple of them that I got pretty close to (about 50 yards) but I couldn't get them to move from behind the foliage. Darned uncooperative of them:
Here's the Great Blue Heron:
This may be a golden eagle, or it is a juvenile bald eagle. Whichever it is, it was huge. It flew over my head and darkened the sky briefly. Its wingspan is somewhat larger than 4 feet.
Here are some pictures from a hike earlier this weekend that I went on with my kid and her dogs.
Dog being cute:
Some long abandoned kilns:
A lovely meadow:
A flower, the meadow and my kid's hand:
A really swell-looking tree:
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin'
A Little Night Music
Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Born In Louisiana
Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Pressure Cooker, Up Jumped the Devil
Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Okie Dokie Stomp
Clarence Gatemouth Brown + Canned Heat - Live at Montreux
Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Fiddle Medley
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Dollar Got The Blues
Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Ain´t That Just Like A Woman
Albert Collins & Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Frosty
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Grape Jelly
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Same Old Blues
Freddie King & Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Shuffle
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - My Ooh Poo Pah Doo
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown, Vassar Clements, Keith Nelson - Six Levels Below Plant Life
Roy Clark and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Caldonia
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