whales wayward

Jeanie

melodious wrote:

see, Jeanie, funny how universe can attract complete strangers to kindred appreciations.

the picnic for the tree idea spawned an idea for me as well, i been trying to come up with a theme to get people together for a picnic at lake mendocino..

i thought of bringing folks together for the typical causes, immigration, war, police state, etc...etc...but maybe a picnic for love and celebration would be a great idea...

i say this because although an idea of a great peaceful rally seems romantic, do i really wanna invite a bunch of people bearing signs and banners to a redwood forest? i think that could be kind of counter-productive and a bit dismissive of purpose for my intentions...(as well as offensive to beauty trees and magesitc russian river)

well, today, is a famiy reunion, i am apprehensive about going, but all my support network says i should go even though they are like an army of wmd's...lucky i will have my own soldiers with me...my daughter and lil spawn....

peace jeanie....love to you...thanks for taking a step...

Yes! There's been a bit of that universal attraction and connectedness happening in my life of late melodious. It's quite a blessing.

How calming and empowering to bring people together in such a beautiful natural setting to just connect with each other and nature?
Imagine the power of positivity that it would give everyone.
Probably more empowering to help everyone find their centredness and connectedness again. Certainly the flow on would be highly beneficial to help recharge people to then go out and support the causes that are important.

Family reunions are like minefields!! :eek: Just try to stay calm melodious and remember that how these people see you is not necessarily who you are. And if you have faith in yourself then they can do you no harm emotionally.
Be proud and happy and don't let them drag you into their vortex.
Good luck, keep your little soldiers close.

melodious

great advice and now put you in a realm of higher circle...


i thought i would share a bit more of the album inside me head..

napa valley :

(note three ducks flying)





a bit north in lake county:

Jeanie

melodious wrote:

great advice and now put you in a realm of higher circle...


i thought i would share a bit more of the album inside me head..

napa valley :

(note three ducks flying)





a bit north in lake county:

Beautiful melodious! Thank you for posting them.

Have a great day! I'm off to bed now! It's soooo very late at 3.49am and I'm very sleepy. I'll have a look around for some nice pics for you tomorrow.
Take care.

melodious

enjjjjoy your dreamingtime, jeanie....see ya soon.

melodious

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moeaholic

melodious wrote:

great advice and now put you in a realm of higher circle...


i thought i would share a bit more of the album inside me head..

napa valley :

(note three ducks flying)





a bit north in lake county:

i hate to be picky, but those are canadian geese, not ducks.

melodious

moeaholic wrote:

i hate to be picky, but those are canadian geese, not ducks.

details! details! u can pick any day of the week, moeaholic...see ya..

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
~Nada

hell of funny!!!!

moeaholic

melodious wrote:

details! details! u can pick any day of the week, moeaholic...see ya..

lol, i went back and forth about 10 times with whether or not to post that, i tried to make it as lighthearted a reply as i could. ducks, geese.....doesn't take away the fact that it's a great picture, by the way.

melodious

me have open heart, moeholic...be free feel free and all can be...

thank you..

gue_barium

er, whales...
I've got to wonder if they came into the fresh water as some sort of healing remedy. Maybe the rough scaly skin is what they are after. Kind of like building up a thicker scab over the wounds.

Hope fading as wayward whales showing signs of distress

By Marcus Wohlsen
Associated Press
Published May 24, 2007


RIO VISTA, Calif. -- Hope dimmed Wednesday for two lost, wounded whales as scientists spotted the humpbacks wildly slapping their tails on the water in possible distress as they lingered far from the ocean.

Deep cuts on the mother whale and calf, likely caused by a run-in with a boat, were worsening after more than a week in fresh water that the pair are not physically well-equipped to inhabit, biologists said.



"I wouldn't say there's a lot of optimism right now," said Brian Gorman, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

For a third day, the whales frustrated efforts to herd them past a Sacramento River bridge about 70 miles from the Pacific, where they have lingered since Monday. They first were spotted in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on May 13.

Biologists would not estimate how long the whales could survive in the delta but said the tail-slapping behavior, called "lobbing," was cause for concern.

"The whales were fairly quiet for a period of days. Then they weren't so quiet. So the question is, why have they changed?" said Trevor Spradlin, a NOAA whale biologist.

Boat crews resumed playing underwater recordings of humpbacks feeding to try to coax the whales downriver when startling them by banging on metal pipes failed to work Wednesday morning.

If the feeding sounds are not effective, scientists planned to try a new scare tactic -- playing recordings of orcas, also known as killer whales, attacking a mother whale and her calf.

The biggest concern remained the wounds on both whales, especially a 3- to 4-foot cut on the calf's side.

The freshwater environment was taxing the whales, turning their skin from its normally smooth, shiny texture to rough and pitted. The stress of that continued exposure "may be impeding their natural healing abilities," Spradlin said.

gue_barium

So maybe these biologists should just leave them alone, protect them of course, but otherwise let nature take its course.

melodious

gue_barium wrote:

So maybe these biologists should just leave them alone, protect them of course, but otherwise let nature take its course.

ah! gue_barium, you beat me to the punch...sometimes human love is not best medicine for nature...

i am so sorry to hear about the 4 ft wound on the calf...i think we should coninue with that moment of silence for this sister and her calf....

she is part of us and we are part of her; it's called a web of life...

love to you....


p.s. thank you

melodious

what kind of geese are these????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Irv_CHcbM


i sent this to a very special friend of mine and couldn't help but see the formations.....;)

peace...

moeaholic

melodious wrote:

what kind of geese are these????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Irv_CHcbM


i sent this to a very special friend of mine and couldn't help but see the formations.....;)

peace...

lol, i have no clue. but i'll bet they're tasty.

i love seeing huge geese formations when they're migrating. i'll try to remember to get the camera out later this year when we see them and get some pics to post. there's also some canadian geese down the street from my place, hanging out at the river with their babies. if i remember, i'll snap some pics of them, too.

gue_barium

moeaholic wrote:

lol, i have no clue. but i'll bet they're tasty.

i love seeing huge geese formations when they're migrating. i'll try to remember to get the camera out later this year when we see them and get some pics to post. there's also some canadian geese down the street from my place, hanging out at the river with their babies. if i remember, i'll snap some pics of them, too.

I can't figure it out either. best i could come up with is 'barnacle geese' and still the heads don't look white enough. they look like bald eagle geese, to me.

moeaholic

gue_barium wrote:

I can't figure it out either. best i could come up with is 'barnacle geese' and still the heads don't look white enough. they look like bald eagle geese, to me.

great shots of the formations, just no shots close enough to really tell what kind of geese they are. not that i'm any kind of authority on geese, i'd probably still be puzzled if the camera was right in the damned things face. canadian geese, i know them fuckers. i see them all the time when there's no snow on the ground.

melodious

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gue_barium

melodious wrote:

edit

edit geese!

i should have known!

melodious

gue_barium wrote:

edit geese!

i should have known!

some traits never change!! i trust you already have been exposed...i didn't think the links were right, and got really frustrated; i forgot all my niks at photobucket, so i ma trying to refresh me memory...here ya go:

On the way to the coast; took west road through trees to go look for migrating whales:




This hiway is marked as a Cali state hiway. It's one road where you can't even see edge of pavement because pine needles cover 1/2 of the one lane thourough way.









I liked how this green stood out in this background:



Finally getting close to Pacific Coast



Point Arena Lighthouse


Heading south

















That's all folks!!

melodious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwk1N0kXepk