On 23/12/2010 4:57 PM, A Moose in Love wrote:

>>
>> They are cool! I saw one sitting on an island in the grocery store
>> parking lot early one morning. I tried to drive closer to it to get a
>> better look but it took off with it's breakfast in it's beak (an unlucky
>> female grackle, that we have plenty of to spare!) to finish it's meal
>> undisturbed in a large tree. :-)
>>
>> Magnificent creatures. Get a pic if you can???
>> --
>
> I wish I would have had my digital camera.

Ain't it a kicker to miss a good shot like that. I have missed a few
when I had a camera at hand. One was about a year ago. I was walking in
the woods behind our house and heard a scambling sound. A raccoon was
climbing up the tree beside me. He came around to my side and stopped
and looked at me. I had my digital SLR because I had been planning to
take pictures of the spring flowers. I flipped the on switch, focused,
pushed the shutter button...... battery low ;-(

I had an equally frustrating experience many years earlier. I was
teaching nature studies in a girls camp in Algonquin Park and was taking
a cabin group of young girls on an overnight canoe trip to an adjacent
lake. My camera gear was in my pack that had been stowed in a canoe. At
the last minute I switched canoes and left my gear in the other one.

As we were paddling along a river a Great Blue Heron swooped over our
heads and landed on a log about 10 yards from me. We all stopped to have
a look at it. The bird strutted along the log, jabbed his head into the
water and pulled up a fish. He held it aloft for a minute or two and
then tossed it up in the air, caught it and swallowed it head first. He
stuck around for a few minutes while I manouvered over to the canoe with
my pack and got my camera out. i did get a couple of nice shots of the
heron, especially one of him taking off. But I missed the fish part of it.

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:14:44 -0500, Brooklyn1 wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:57:04 -0500, blake murphy
> > wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:25:50 -0500, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>>> The thing folks are not addressing is that there are an awful lot of
>>> people out there who have tats that are concealed by clothing, hair,
>>> inside bodily orifices,
>>
>>'inside bodily orifices'? do you have tattoos inside your urethra, or
>>maybe 'room capacity' signs in your rectum?
>
> Someone with a tat in her mouth... pay attention, lame brain.

do you mean on a tooth? that's not exactly what's under discussion here.

blake

In article >,
Omelet > wrote:

> Many moons ago, we took a trip to Louisiana and took some of the back
> roads thru a lot of wetlands. I had my old Pentax 9mm. (This was in the
> mid-80's). LOTS of good photography subjects!
>
> Got to the end of my roll and went to re-wind, found it'd been
> mis-threaded so had never even forwarded. <sigh>
>
> Lost the whole trip...

Nowadays, everybody and their dog has a cellphone that takes pictures.
There's lots of stuff that could only be described before, and believed
or disbelieved, that make for fascinating pictures on the net. I didn't
think you could herd cats, and then I saw one playing a piano on youtube.

leo

On Dec 24, 10:12*pm, Leonard Blaisdell >
wrote:
> In article >,
>
> *Omelet > wrote:
> > Many moons ago, we took a trip to Louisiana and took some of the back
> > roads thru a lot of wetlands. I had my old Pentax 9mm. (This was in the
> > mid-80's). *LOTS of good photography subjects!
>
> > Got to the end of my roll and went to re-wind, found it'd been
> > mis-threaded so had never even forwarded. <sigh>
>
> > Lost the whole trip...
>
> Nowadays, everybody and their dog has a cellphone that takes pictures.
> There's lots of stuff that could only be described before, and believed
> or disbelieved, that make for fascinating pictures on the net. I didn't
> think you could herd cats, and then I saw one playing a piano on youtube.
>
> leo

If time is infinite, eventually a cat will be able to bang out a
Mozart tune. All other things being equal of course.