celebration of birdsong

[sqwook]

I just bought Music of the Birds: A Celebration of Bird Song. This is a book full of crazily good photos of birds, with a cd that emphasizes the beauty of the songs (as opposed to pure ID, although it should help with that too; the book says the cd tells you what you'll hear before you hear it.)  First trial run tomorrow on the drive in to work. If you know a more rigorous cd that's good for listening in a car (and elsewhere), please let me know.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618006974/sr/ref=pd_cp_b_2/104-7257674-2739922?ie=UTF8&qid=1188266224&sr=8-2&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_r=1QVQWZ2P1NKZG7QE6JSX&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=252362401&pf_rd_i=0618663983

(holy schmokes, that's a long url!)

Gosh, I guess more of the beauty-is-science-is-nature-is-art.  Well.... that's just how life is.  *I* didn't make it that way.  (But I'm duly impressed.)

much love to all, and a good evening. and happy eclipse tomorrow.

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[sqwook.livejournal.com]

Crap! I left out the BEST PART!

I spent 10 minutes flipping through the useless Borders find-a-cd-or-book search thing and didn't learn that anything like what I was looking for was in stock. So then I went to Science to find the nature field guides, etc., which, by the way, is not at all where they are shelved. And then from across the store I hear....

*tweet* *tweet* *chirp* *chirp* *chirp*

Umm... what?

My beloved B had found a play-the-birdsongs thing on the other side of the room, and was bringing it to me, and showed me where all the other such things were, and you should have seen the pleased look on his face as he demonstrated: "this WHOLE section is ALL about BIRDS!"

:)

(And, as a related point of fact, in our relationship it's B who asks for directions, contrary to whatever cliches you may have heard.)