Songs and Fascination

[synthcat]

It feels like I am making slow progress in my piano practices. I have settled into a routine during my 60+ minutes practice sessions: I start off with practicing Hanon exercise (No. 1) for the first ten minutes, then work on chords and scales for the next ten minutes. Then I spend about 15-20 minutes working through the exercises in The Piano

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[solteronita]

Yay for duck butt!

[synthcat]

Quack Quack Butt. :o

Thank you so much for posting your pics of the garden awhile back....those images were definitely influential in my decision to go visit the garden yesterday. :)

[bluefenox]

Ooo pretty pictures, i like the one of the Wood Duck!

[synthcat]

You mean the Long Duck Dong? ;)

The garden was fun. We should go sometime!

[bluefenox]

Long Duck Dong was teh cute too :D one of my first crushes!

The birdy that ya have labeled as a "baby Mallard"is a Wood Duck. They are far more striking and elegant in detail in comparison to an actual Mallard. Not that it matters cause they are all PRETTY and i wants to maul them!:D

Yesh that would be fun. i know there is an actual kind of duck park off 82nd out there some where i think. I used to go to it when i lived in my house out there.

Silver Falls is also amazing. I am going next sunday with who ever else wants to wonder the waters and trees!I am certainly going to picnic there too!

[synthcat]

Well, funk a duck. I thought that the baby was a mallard. I changed the description (/me gets schooled by bella).

Would you like company on Sunday for the Silver Falls expedition? I will chip in for gas and conversation.

[outfcheeseerror]

beautiful pictures!

i've never seen a scrub jay before. are they birds native only to the NW?

[synthcat]

I think that Scrub-Master Jay birds are primarily a West Coast thing....they are supposedly known as "aphelocoma." :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrub_jay

[goddessmikhail]

Those gardens are one of my favorites spots in Portland-Patrick and I used to pick up lunch and eat it there all the time so I could take photos-if you go to www.divineassassin.com I have a bunch of photography I took there :)

[synthcat]

Oooh. Having lunch there at the garden sounds like a divine thing. Thank you for giving me an inspiration! :)

[goddessmikhail]

Definitely one of my favorite places in Portland to bring a sandwich, friend and a Backgammon set :)

[thestepbeneath]

Wow, I have never even heard of this place. I absolutely must go. Thanks for the beautiful pics!

[synthcat]

I had no idea that the place existed until last year....and it wasn't until just recently that I had the itch to visit the garden. The tranquility of the space is amazing. :)