Road Trip3

Liberty Lake, WA to Redmond, OR:

I84 towards Portland, OR:




Hwy97 towards Bend, OR:









Redmond, OR:




Bend, OR mountains info:
Three Sisters
Mt Bachelor
Cascade Range
Bend, OR

Road Trip2

Bozeman, MT to Liberty Lake, WA:



(That's Butte, MT.)

Road Trip1

Near Bozeman, MT:






Bozeman, MT:
wiki
The Bridger Mountains are to the north-northeast,
the Tobacco Root Mountains to the west-south-west,
the Big Belt Mountains and
Horseshoe Hills to the northwest,
the Hyalite Peaks of the northern Gallatin Range to the south and
the Spanish Peaks of the northern Madison Range to the south-southwest.

Bozeman, MT:
close to 6 mt ranges
Absaroka Mountains
Bridger Mountains
Crazy Mountains
Gallatin Mountains
Madison Range
Spanish Peaks
Tobacco Root Mountains



map image

Spring

The Mummers' Dance
By Loreena McKennitt

YouTube Comments: "The video is a re-enactment of a vanishing custom held each St Stephens day in rural parts of Ireland where local musicians visited each family in the area and spent an hour or two playing music before moving to the next family.That's how country folk in Ireland entertained themselves in those bye gone days before the advent of television etc etc."



wiki
songfacts
Nature with Lyrics (Same song, different YouTube video.)

"When in the springtime of the year
When the trees are crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair..."




Image Creation Notes:
Gradients with Buffet Script Font as Selection, Add Drop Shadow
Filter Factory Q Gravity Blossom

Muscle Cars Forever

I don't get US postal stamps very often, but was pleasantly surprised recently at the selection.
The Muscle Car stamps are fabulous.



Muscle Cars (Forever)

1969 Dodge Charger Daytona
1966 Pontiac GTO
1967 Shelby GT-500
1970 Chevelle SS
1970 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda

Motortrend article

(Googling images will get you more large size pictures of these car stamps.)

I also liked the Bonsai stamps but they seem difficult to get locally now.



Bonsai (Forever)

Sierra juniper in semi-cascade style
Trident maple in informal upright style
Black pine in formal upright style
Azalea plant in multiple-trunk style
Banyan in cascade style

Flowers Become Human

I discovered an interesting public domain book, called Flowers Personified.
It's an illustrated story about flowers taking on human form.
It is easy to find information on it as a google search shows several results.
I think some have bought the old printed books and have the illustration plates and sell the prints.
I've been combining the French version images with the English version text and creating an ebook out of it. I find comparing and converting some of the language interesting. I love the flower illustrations.

1867 French version:
Volume 1
Volume 2
The images are good, if you download the zip file.






1849 English version
One volume that includes Botany and Horticulture sections.
The images pretty much suck in the pdf file.
It also has some missing sections.
Some sections are in a different order than the French version.
It takes quite a bit of work and editing to create a good ebook out of this.
I'm working on it in Microsoft Word now, but might eventually create an epub.
I use google translate to convert some of the French titles.
Import the French version 1st page of each section into English version for side-by-side comparison.
And then of course, import the beautiful illustrations.




Illustrated by J. J. Grandville
Introduction by Alphonse Karr
Text by Taxile Delord
Translated by Nehemiah Cleaveland

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard
(b. 13 Sep 1803 -d. 17 Mar 1847)
Pseudonym J. J. Grandville
French caricaturist
(Grandville was his grandparents' professional stage name.)

Perks

Of recent movies I've watched lately, the one that stands out, is
Perks of Being a Wallflower.
DVD release was 12Feb2013.

Book By:
Stephen Chbosky

Music:
List

My Picks:
Heroes, Wallflowers version.
We're on Our Way, by Radical Face
Could It Be Another Change, by The Samples

Similar Font (Free):
NeoBulletin Trash



Trivia Note:
Empire in my Mind, theme song to The Guardian TV show, is by the Wallflowers.

Trailer:
Official Trailer #1



Quote:
Charlie's last letter
with Tunnel song (David Bowie - Heroes)

I don't know if I will have the time to write any more letters because I might be too busy trying to participate.

So, if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school. And you helped me.

Even if you didn't know what I was talking about. Or know someone who's gone through it. It made me not feel alone.

Because I know there are people who say all of these things don't happen.

And there are people who forget what it's like to be 16 when they turn 17.

I know these will all be stories someday.
And our pictures will become old photographs.
And we'll all become somebody's mom or dad.

But right NOW,

these moments are not stories.

This is happening.
I am here.
And I am looking at her.
And she is so beautiful.

I can see it.
This one moment when you know you're not a sad story.

You are ALIVE.

And as you stand up and see the lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.
And you're listening to that song on that drive with the people you love most in this world.
And in this moment, I swear...

we are INFINITE.

Piece of Forever

A nod to Breaking Dawn 2 movie DVD release on 2Mar13.



Heart of Stone, by IKO

A Thousand Years, by Christina Perri
(Uploaded on Oct 26, 2011.)

Soundtrack

Stillness

Another iTunes Store song word search.
In The Stillness,
By Liquid Mind
VII Reflection Album 2004

Better Days

It's been like a barren desert for music lately.
OK.
Search the iTunes Store for songs with a certain word or phrase.
I tried "Better Days."
See if I can find something *new* that I've never heard before.
Too bad I can't refine it down to genre also.

(The *not* new big obvious popular one to me is:
Better Days, by Goo Goo Dolls.
Eddie Vedder previously.)



For NEW, I came up with:
Better Days To Come
By Lee Starr a 22 year old singer-songwriter from Texarkana, Arkansas.
Published on Jun 24, 2012
Hometown Blue Debut Album
(Country genre is usually not my choice.)
Even has the lyrics, thank you very much.

Lyrics:
Well I am stuck inside the walls of a lonesome town
But I dare not step out into the water, for fear that I might drown
Yeah I am stuck inside a place I have always been
But every time I leave, I end up right back here again

So I'll ride, yeah I'll ride all night
and I'll glide, on an airplane
Can't stop the race, I'm on a chase
for better days to come

So I'll run out into the world in my youthful haste
and do my best to weather the storm and find my place
Yeah, pedal to the floor and worries to the wind
Gonna leave this lonesome town and not look back again

So I'll ride, Yeah I'll ride all night
and I'll glide, on an airplane flight
Won't stop the race, I'm on a chase
for better days

Bridge:

There are better days to come because my life has just begun
My feet are swift, I'm early in the race
and when I look back on all my hard times come and gone
I'll be glad I never stopped the chase, yeah, never stop the chase

I am stuck inside the walls of a lonesome town
Yeah I am stuck inside the walls of a lonesome town...

Back To Love

Back To Love
By DJ Pauly D ft. Jay Sean
Heard it on Ellen DeG.

I'm a Tornado

Little Big Town - Tornado

Hey, not bad for a country song. HA
Don't mess with me, I'm a tornado.

lyrics
songfacts

The song compares a scorned woman to a force of nature, and features an ominous chorus in which the protagonist threatens to destroy the house that she shares with her wayward man. "Natalie played it for us one night and we were like, man, I don't think I've ever heard a chick say, 'I'm a tornado,'" said Fairchild.

wiki
Little Big Town is an American country music vocal group. Founded in 1998, the group has comprised the same four members since its inception: Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook, and Phillip Sweet.

Little Big Town's fifth studio album, Tornado, was released on September 11, 2012.
The album's second single, "Tornado," was released on October 1, 2012.
Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook married on May 31, 2006


Moving up the charts.
65 on the Hot 100 billboard when I found the song.

Flavia Quotes

Some old calendar Flavia quotes I saved years ago and decided to save as digital and create images for them.

Salubrious

Webster



archive
gutenberg
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Conduct of Life
Part VII
Considerations By The Way

ALSO:
Misattribution Emerson Success

iPod Touch Internet and Maroon 5 Cover Songs

I tried to go on the Internet with my iPod Touch and listen to Sad, by Maroon 5 that way, but I could NOT find that at YouTube and besides the YouTube App, I also tried all 3 of my search engine apps: Google App, Chrome App, and Mercury App. All I could find were cover songs. So then I went to my blog and clicked on the YouTube link I had there and I got a message saying not available on mobile device.



Also when I tried to access a Maroon 5 playlist at YouTube on my iPod Touch it was blocked with a sign-in requirement message.



So that was interesting. I also found out Grooveshark is not accessible and charges for an App, so does Hulu.

Internet content is different, more limited and controlled on mobile devices than on my laptop. Didn't know that about mobile devices.

As for the Maroon 5 Sad cover songs, I did find some I liked.


Maroon 5 - Sad (Cover by Iker Kourts)
42,074 views
Adds a strong beat and guitar along with piano, which jazzes it up a bit and it's not as stark and sad as Maroon 5 version.
Voice is good. Sound quality is good.


Sad (Maroon 5 Cover) - Liam Howard
30,167 views
Good sound quality.
Piano only.
I like his deep strong voice.


Maroon 5- Sad -(New Song) Music Video Cover
9,007 views
LivTheLife (Olivia Vocal)
(Twitter and Facebook links there.)
&
DanLee0121 (Dan Piano)

I liked Olivia Burke's voice and originality enough to check out what else she has on YouTube. She's done other Maroon 5 covers.

She has auditioned for The Voice (Maroon 5's Adam Levine).
(closed) my 'THE VOICE' Audition!!!! *IMPORTANT*

She auditioned for the X Factor first and says that The Voice audition was a better experience.
X Factor Auditions: WHAT TO EXPECT!

Dan and Olivia Google Searches:
There's a Dan Humphrey (Portrayed by Penn Badgley) and Olivia Burke (Portrayed by Hillary Duff) on CW's "Gossip Girl."
There's another younger Olivia Burke singer that shows up in searches too.


NOTE:
Maroon 5's Overexposed album at grooveshark.

Videos

These videos are fun to watch and educational.
By: cgpgrey

Holland vs Netherlands
(Via MeFi.)
(Pennsylvania Dutch is German.)


UK vs Great Britain


Daddy Longlegs


Continents

Listening To...

Daylight
and
Sad

From Maroon 5's
Overexposed album
12 songs
One More Night and Payphone I was already familiar with.