Spring on the Mountain

This picture is the Dogwood at the beginning
of my path to the labyrinth













This is the same dogwood from a different
view with the corner of my garden.














This is a view of my neighborhood. We are
at the end of the road and don't get a lot of
traffic. It is very peaceful and serene.














This is a shot from our front porch. If you
blow up the picture and look really close at
our weather stick on the corner post about
half way up you can see a hummingbird
resting. Also visible are the little white clouds
that we call dogwoods.













This is GG(Garfield Girl) taking a nap after
a hard days hunt.

Native Flutes

In future post I plan to show the
different steps in building a Native
American style flute. I still have
some pictures and videos to gather
before I start that project. I have
the flute finished that I plan to
use for this project. In the meantime
take a look at the picture at the top
of this post. This is one that I
finished a while back. It is made
from Walnut with a beautiful grain.
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Morels

Today while hunting for morel mushrooms GG went
along. She loves walking in the woods. She is
not much help finding mushrooms but she loves the
walk. We didn't have much luck finding the morels
but we will keep looking. When I was a kid I use
to find them by the bag full in southern Indiana.
I know they grow here in Tennessee because I have
seen pictures of them that folks have found nearby.
They won't tell where they found them so I guess
I will have to follow them next year. Socratease8

Amazing Grace

This sound file is loaded as a video in order
to get it to work on the blog. The blogger will
not except sound files. The picture above is
not a moving video. This song was taken from
the church CD and edited into a video so that
I could use it here.
This is Armand and Angelina playing Amazing Grace
using Odell Borg "A" flutes. Armand starts with
a high "A"5 flute. I believe it is a pocket flute
and finishes with an "A"4 drone. Angeline plays
the classic guitar to accompany Armand. I thought
it was a very effective way to do it. You can visit
Armand and Angelina's web site and hear more music
at http://www.armandandangelina.com/
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Armand and Angelina

Armand and Angelina performed at our church
this morning then Armand had a flute playing
workshop in the afternoon. He plays and sells
Odell Borg flutes and that is what we used in
the workshop. I have uploaded a video from this
mornings service.Their web sit is at this location
http://www.armandandangelina.com/ Go there and
hear Angelina sing Amazing Grace. Worth the trip.
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Serenity

Sometimes when the stuff of the world starts
to get real intense a little walk into natures
splendor can calm the soul. I started this
day in my workshop building a Native American
style flute and after tuning it for about an
hour I decided I needed a break. The wind was
blowing quite hard and I could hear the water
flowing in the creek. It was like a magnet
drawing me to it. I took my camera and got
this video. As you can see spring has sprung
here in central Tennessee and we have a lot
of green. But it stays green year round here
with the Hemlocks, Mountain Laurel and Holly.
The Mountain Laurel will be blooming soon. It
lines almost all my paths through the woods and
is a pleasant sight to behold.

At the top of this post is a picture of a
Mountain Laurel. I wanted to put it after my
last paragraph but couldn't get it to work.
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The boy who would be president has been on
shaky ground since his inauguration and he has
failed to get his sea legs. I'm afraid that he is
going to sink us all before he does. Once we
start down that financial ruin hole we won't stop
until we hit bottom.
The cap-and-trade legislation that he wants will
cost our industry $2+ trillion dollars and put many
out of business. Lots more in the unemployment
lines, lost homes and cars, loss of college
education's and no paid vacations. Bummer. This
cap-and-trade thing is suppose to stop global
warming that is man made. NOT going to happen.
There is NO global warming caused by man.
Almost every day there are scientist jumping OFF
the global warming wagon. Today I got an e-mail
saying that 59 more scientist now say there is NO
manmade global warming. That makes the count
since Gores lies about global warming, 700
scientist who say it is not a true story. These
scientist are some of the top weather scientist
in the world.
Some of these global warming alarmist are worried
about Greenland becoming green again. Hello, wake-
up folks before you lose the farm. Socratease8