if happy little bluebirds fly

[austin_dern]

I noticed I failed to upload the last of my selected Chinese Lantern Safari pictures; forgetting to get back to stuff is a chronic problem with me. So here goes. (And, of course, there are many more, if you really want.) We start among the birds, with various cranes at night. They seemed to be having fun. The birds flocked together regardless of feather or scale, down to the water. Above, a bald eagle watched over many, and if you think brown feathers are hard to light up, you're basically right. Pink flamingoes like an invasion of radioactive tacky lawn ornaments were an easier design problem.

The animal orchestra included a lion and a vaguely Sonic the Hedgehog sidekick type character; lit up they're rather pleasant. The flutist fox flouresced fine. The nearby cheerleader bunny blended in to her background, however; I gave it a fair try to get both colors right, and it was just beyond my camera skills.

In Big Cat Country was this really not-so-big cat. I think it may have been a fossa of some grade. There was also a black panther in amongst the easier-to-light cats; it worked out pretty well in person where you could walk around and see the light around the white ``fur'', and watch the internal glow of the panther relative to the ground or the other cats, but it doesn't come out in a picture at all. Mostly I'm including this because after taking the picture a dozen times I'm happy to have one that's perfectly focused and I'm inflicting it on you for that reason. And somehow, Richard Harris has become a Chinese dragon.

Trivia: Pencils were made yellow at least as far back as 1854. Source: The Pencil, Henry Petroski.

Currently Reading: Molecules at an Exhibition, John Emsley.

Comments

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

Excerpt from The Man Who Would Be King of the Dragons (http://sctvguide.ca/episodes/sctv_s1.htm#Show_25):

"I want to be king."
"I want to be a dragon."
"I want to be both king and dragon!"

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm mighty glad you posted that link ... it's heartening to know who I don't have to push SCTV onto.

Actually, that sketch is maybe the best memory I have of Richard Harris, and it wasn't even actually him ...

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

My parents were huge fans when I was a kid, and we all watched it on the Windsor CBC station.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I don't think my parents were fans -- but they've always been cagey about their fandoms -- so I just got into the show on my own, when ABC showed a best-of compilation one sweeps period for some pretext or other. And that happily coincided with it appearing on Nick at Nite, in a lovely little spot of Best of Saturday Night Live (made of the 1970s shows), SCTV (half-hour versions of things, including the episodes that were originally 90 or 45 minutes), and Laugh-In, which was very well-suited to get me set up for the comedy of 1968 to 1984.

But I imprinted hard and fast on SCTV. I've been able to push it on spaceroo with the DVD release; I'll see about trying someone else soon.

lost in the loveliness!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Another great visit.. thankyoooooooo!

Re: lost in the loveliness!

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I'm quite glad you enjoy it. As I've threatened, there are more pictures I could bring out; it does seem like the birds got less than their share of attention so far.

[chefmongoose.livejournal.com]

I get the feeling of Genet very strongly, not Fossa, but vivverid discernment can be tough, especially among non-herpestids. It might just as likely be a Civet, with Fossa as a yet-possibility.

Excellent pictures, thank you for sharing them.

--Chiaroscuro

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like them. Alas, the safari was really inadequately labelled right where it counted most.