Cafe - Movie

So there is almost nothing online about this movie.
I didn't think it was *that* bad. lol
It's different.
I bought the DVD for $10.00 at Target or WalMart.

There's a long list of song credits at the end of the movie.
The two I wanted were:

Gone Away From Me
By Ray LaMontagne
Movie Scene - Dancing in the Cafe
grooveshark
Songmeanings



Not the Real Thing
By Teddy Goldstein
Movie Scene - Song is played at the end of the movie.
amazon single
amazon Backseat Album

wiki
Trailer
imdb
review (theological themes)

Bald Eagle Juvenile

Along the Missouri again, same area as the previous mature bald eagle photo.

The regal head:

Jules Verne EBooks

wiki


(Edits mine.)

Jules Gabriel Verne (b. 8 Feb 1828 - d. 24 Mar 1905)
A French author who pioneered the science fiction genre.
He is best known for:
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)

Dug up the epub ebooks from mobileread forum. Sometimes those are formatted better.

Verne, Jules:
Five Weeks In A Balloon
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth
See also:
Comic Book Journey to the Center of the Earth

The Mysterious Island
MobileRead Note: A loose sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under the Seas", "The Mysterious Island" tells the story of 5 men who crash-land on an uninhabited Pacific island after their balloon is caught in a hurricane. Starting with almost no resources, the book tells how they build "civilisation" from nothing. But the island has a mysterious secret...This is one of my favourite Verne novels.

An Antarctic Mystery
Around the World in 80 Days
The Adventures of a Special Correspondent
20,000 Leagues Under the Seas
The Moon Voyage
MobileRead Note: Verne's two classic books "From the Earth to the Moon" and its sequel, "Around the Moon", in a single volume.

The Blockade Runners

In Search of the Castaways


(Illustrations, Edits mine.)

My Note: This is the one I was particularly interested in.
MobileRead Note: A chance discovery of a partially illegible message in a bottle found in a shark's stomach leads to a search for shipwrecked sailors across South America, Australia, and New Zealand (the message specified the latitude, but not the longitude of the shipwreck) with numerous adventures en-route. Basically, it's a travelogue with adventures thrown in.
The characters in this book were very popular, and Verne re-introduced them in "The Mysterious Island", which is itself a sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under the Seas", so ideally this book should be read in between "20,000 Leagues Under the Seas" and "The Mysterious Island".

Jules Verne:
archive
gutenberg

William Butler Yeats

Digging around in archives again.

I like this poem:



By William Butler Yeats (b. 13 Jun 1865 – d. 28 Jan 1939)



Photo from wiki
(Edits mine.)

archive
W B Yeats - Collected Poems, 1889-1939

archive2
W.B. Yeats; a critical study (1915)

gutenberg
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

mobileread forum lrf
Yeats, William Butler: Collected Poems
(Calibre can convert lrf to epub.)

A Little Excitement Saturday

So we had a little excitement Saturday...





On a trail by the Missouri.

Here's a favorite inflight photo:


Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
npwrc
The bald eagle is uncommon in North Dakota and is usually seen along the Missouri River in late fall/early winter and in the spring during migration to its northern breeding grounds.
Bald eagles do not acquire their white-colored head and tail until about 4 years of age.
The bald eagle feeds primarily on fish.

Feb 2010 NDOutdoors magazine:
listed here
Nesting in Numbers - Active Bald Eagle Nests Up in ND - Feb 2010 - (330Kb PDF)
pdf direct link
It wasn’t until the mid-2000s that the number of nesting eagles climbed in North Dakota.
To date, North Dakota Game and Fish Department biologists have logged 103 individual nest sites, some of which are no longer in use because the trees have fallen or the eagles abandoned the sites.
In 2009, Game and Fish biologists estimated that 66 nests were occupied by bald eagles, though not all eagle nest sites were visited and verified. Bald eagle nests have now been reported in 29 of 53 North Dakota counties.

enature
cornell
Cornell has some good juvenile photos alongside the golden eagle for comparison.
I'd love to get photos of the golden eagle too.

Road Less Traveled

Some recent photos of a trail along the Missouri river after the summer flood.



Some of the trees had water marks almost 6 feet high.
At one point the trail just disappeared. Washed away as if it never existed.


How about a tune with that.
I like this song.
Road Less Traveled
By George Strait
Country genre, not something I usually go for.

wiki
George Harvey Strait (b. 18 May 1952)
American country music singer, actor, and music producer.
Strait is referred to as the "King of Country," and critics call Strait a living legend.
George Strait holds the world record for more number-one hit singles than any other artist in the history of music on any chart or in any genre, having recorded 57 number-one hit singles as of 2010.
He eloped with his high school sweetheart, Norma in 1971.
In 1981, Strait and Norma welcomed son George Strait, Jr., known as "Bubba."
Their daughter Jenifer was killed in an automobile accident in San Marcos, Texas, on June 25, 1986, at the age of 13.

amazon
Album Nov 2001
georgestrait.com

At grooveshark:
Road Less Traveled
George Strait

There's a road, a winding road that never ends
Full of curves, lessons learned at every bend
Goin's rough, unlike the straight and narrow
It's for those, those who go against the grain
Have no fear, dare to dream of a change
Live to march, to the beat of a different drummer
And it all might come together
And it all might unraveled
On the road less traveled

For the road less traveled ain't for the faint of heart
For those who choose to play it safe and never stray too far
Me I want to live my life and one day leave my mark
And it all might come together
And it all might come unraveled
On the road less traveled

I've chosen a pathway I may not endure
One thing's for certain nothing for sure
And it all might come together
Or it all might come unraveled
On the road less traveled

For the road less traveled ain't for the faint of heart
For those who choose to play it safe and never stray too far
Me I want to live my life and some day leave my mark
And it all might come together
Or it all come unraveled
On the road less traveled

And it all might come together
Or it all come unraveled
On the road less traveled

There's a road, a winding road that never ends...

Amur Maples

I think these are Amur Maples.
They sure are pretty this year.



Lots of trees still have green leaves right now, which is unusual for our area.



usda
Amur maple (Acer ginnala)

ndsu

google images

Sunrise Moon Nature Show

In the East - fabulous sunrise:


With the tele:


In the West - moon in trees:

I like how the tree branches seem to be holding up the moon.

Moon in clouds:


Moon again:


October's full moon is called Hunter's Moon.
Googling tells me it's supposed to be the smallest full moon of the year 2011, or furthest away from the earth.
Well, it was really beaming forth into the window right before the sun came up. Hard to ignore.

The Call of the Wild - Robert Service Poem

Dug this out of the public domain archives, so I'll post the links and poem here.







Photos from:
Wiki
(Edits mine.)

Robert W. Service poetry at:
gutenberg
archive

Poem images from:
archive sourdough
(Edits mine.)

mobileread forum epub
Service, Robert W: Songs of a Sourdough

Larry Beck recites the poem:
YouTube
He goes a little too fast, but pretty good overall.
"The poem, written by Robert Service, is performed by Alaska's Ambassador of Good Will, Larry Beck (1935-1990)."
"Though Service never got to Alaska, his poetry describes all the regions of Alaska and the Yukon."

Here's a song of the poem - eh:
YouTube
Eldorado Gene - Robert Service Call of the Wild Gold Prospecting Placer Mining
Music by Ronald Eugene Ralph.

Photo Walk

Some photos I like from a photo walk.



(Continuing the into the sun tall tree shadows photography study.)



Red Admiral Butterfly. I like the angle and the wood texture background. I thought it might be unusual to see butterflies this late in the autumn? Captured another one on camera but could not positively identify.

Migrants

Swarms of noisy Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) passed over our place yesterday (12 Oct 11).
North Dakota is on their migration route.

First the V:


Then the swarms:


This is the closest one captured:



cornell
npwrc

How About Some Music With That

How about some music with my latest imagery.
Eddie Vedder is always good. (I love his voice.)

Acoustic #1

From:
Pearl Jam Twenty Album (Sep11).

Eddie at/on
Grooveshark

Peachy Autumn Colors

Playin' around in Paint Shop Pro:

VM Toolbox Crystal Ball Filter/Plugin (Free):



VM Natural Lakeside Reflection Filter/Plugin (Free):



I love the peachy orange, gold and green leaf colors on these.

Cropped Original:



Kaleidoscope:

Pretty Colors

I'm not sure what kind of tree this was.
I thought maybe sumac, but I thought sumac leaves turned red in autumn?
Anyway, I was standing underneath it taking photos of the leaves hanging down around me.
The leaf colors were actually more muted greens and golds, but I pumped up colors and contrast and they turned rust and brilliant green.

Kaleidoscope:

Autumn Sunrise

Waiting for the coffee, looked out the window, and...
Attention!
Nature is putting on a fabulous sunrise show this morning.
Go.
Now.

East:



West:



Up:

Tall Shadows

I liked this one:


So I went out to the same area and shot more the next day, but the lighting wasn't quite the same.
More contrast, and the foregrounds were too dark, so didn't get the brilliant green grass I wanted.
(S3 Canon Point and Shoot camera.)

This next one has quite a bit of post processing, but I like it.



Here's the Original, no post processing:


What I did in Paint Shop Pro:
Lifted the Shadows 90, Midtones 50, Highlights 20
Pumped up colors: Vibrancy 20, Soft Light 50
Chromatic Aberration Removal in the sky by the sun.
Burn Brush touch up on spots that got too faded.

I'm Leavin' On a Jet Plane

I punched in "Leaving On A Jet Plane" at Grooveshark search to see if there were any versions I had never heard before.

Grooveshark
Wrong attributions here. Mostly, the ones sung by Chantal Kerviazuk are misattributed to someone else. Kerviazuk's version seems to be a popular one, but wasn't a favorite of mine. The Glee one isn't too bad. ;) The hyper version by Me First and The Gimme Gimmes makes me laugh.

Wiki
Written by John Denver in 1966.
Peter, Paul and Mary's version first appeared on their 1967 album.
In the extended version of the Glee pilot episode, the song was covered by Will Schuester, the Music teacher played by Matthew Morrison.
A cover by Chantal Kreviazuk was used in the 1998 film Armageddon and became an international hit.

I did find some new/different versions of the song I hadn't heard before.

My fav by far is the one by
Sophie Barker.

Amazon
On This Album:
Beyond The Sea, 50 Summer Classics

I really like her voice, so I did some digging.

Sophie at Wiki
Sophie at Grooveshark
Secret reminds me of Sarah Maclachlan.
(Earthbound 2005 album)

I really like:
I Sit & Hide
(Seagull 2011 album)

Back to Leaving on a Jet Plane songs.
More I hadn't heard before:

Justin Kawika Young
Amazon
It just says "Justin" like I'm supposed to know who that is?
Wiki

Songs For Sunset Album
Amazon
Grooveshark attributes to "Various Artists". Amazon says it's Tara MacLean.

Peace Love and Guitar Album
Amazon
Amazon attributes to Kenny Vehkavaara.
Kenny V Bio
Couldn't find much on the artist. From Canada. Amazon say Latin Pop and Easy Listening Pop genre.
I kinda like the whole album for mellow background music.