Big Bird (Muppet)

eagle

Bird People of China

toucan

bird cages

penguin

bird feeder

Bird of Paradise

Avian

Birdman of Alcatraz

flips the bird

owl

Birdie (golf)

“Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” Langston Hughes

Tweety Bird

cockatoo

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

flamingo

The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock

cockatiel (Penfold for Brian)

Larry Bird

sparrow

Official US State Birds (is there a similar site for other countries, provinces?)

Bird is the Word

Andrew Zuckerman bird photography

bird banding

the birds and the bees

Angry Birds

birdsong

Bird City, Kansas

Cornell Lab of Ornithology (check out their wonderful heron nest web cam)

Alston & Bird LLP

American Bird Conservancy

 

Bird-in-Hand, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

herons

Parrots of Telegraph Hill

hummingbird

Great Backyard Bird Count

parakeet (Penfold for Julie)

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Definition:Birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), egg-laying, vertebrate animals. With around 10,000 living species, they are the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. All present species belong to the subclass Neornithes, and inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) Bee Hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) Ostrich. The fossil record indicates that birds emerged within theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period, around 160 million years (Ma) ago. Paleontologists regard birds as the only clade of dinosaurs to have survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 65.5 Ma ago.

Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. All living species of birds have wings—the now extinct flightless moa of New Zealand were the only exception. Wings are evolved forelimbs, and most bird species can fly. Flightless birds include ratites, penguins, and a number of diverse endemic island species. Birds also have unique digestive and respiratory systems that are highly adapted for flight. Some birds, especially corvids and parrots, are among the most intelligent animal species; a number of bird species have been observed manufacturing and using tools, and many social species exhibit cultural transmission of knowledge across generations.

Many species undertake long distance annual migrations, and many more perform shorter irregular movements. Birds are social; they communicate using visual signals and through calls and songs, and participate in social behaviours, including cooperative breeding and hunting, flocking, and mobbing of predators. The vast majority of bird species are socially monogamous, usually for one breeding season at a time, sometimes for years, but rarely for life. Other species have polygynous (“many females”) or, rarely, polyandrous (“many males”) breeding systems. Eggs are usually laid in a nest and incubated by the parents. Most birds have an extended period of parental care after hatching.

Many species are of economic importance, mostly as sources of food acquired through hunting or farming. Some species, particularly songbirds and parrots, are popular as pets. Other uses include the harvesting of guano (droppings) for use as a fertiliser. Birds figure prominently in all aspects of human culture from religion to poetry to popular music. About 120–130 species have become extinct as a result of human activity since the 17th century, and hundreds more before then. Currently about 1,200 species of birds are threatened with extinction by human activities, though efforts are underway to protect them.

Write what you know

writing practice

Palmer method

freelance

comedy writer

wrote code

copy writing

written communications

write me a letter

cursive

write a cover letter

write fiction

write a song

write your own ticket

writing classes

WriterCorps

Definition: (transitive verb) 1. a : to form (as characters or symbols) on a surface with an instrument (as a pen) b : to form (as words) by inscribing the characters or symbols of on a surface c : to spell in writing <words written alike but pronounced differently> d : to cover, fill, or fill in by writing <wrote ten pages> <write a check>; 2 : to set down in writing: as a : draw up, draft <write a will> b (1) : to be the author of : compose <writes poems and essays> (2) : to compose in musical form <write a string quartet> c : to express in literary form <if I could write the beauty of your eyes — Shakespeare> d : to communicate by letter <writes that they are coming> e : to use or exhibit (a specific script, language, or literary form or style) in writing <write Braille> <writes French with ease> f : to write contracts or orders for; especially : underwrite <write life insurance>; 3 : to make a permanent impression of; 4 : to communicate with in writing <we’ll write you when we get there>; 5 : ordain, fate <so be it, it is written — D. C. Peattie>; 6 : to make evident or obvious <guilt written on his face>; 7 : to force, effect, introduce, or remove by writing <write oneself into fame and fortune — Charles Lee>; 8 : to take part in or bring about (something worth recording); 9 a : to introduce (information) into the storage device or medium of a computer b : to transfer (information) from the main memory of a computer to a storage or output device; 10: sell <write a stock option>; (intransitive verb) 1 a : to make significant characters or inscriptions; also : to permit or be adapted to writing b : to form or produce written letters, words, or sentences; 2 : to compose, communicate by, or send a letter; 3 a : to produce a written work b : to compose music.

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Nota bene: Daisy Yellow is having an Index Card a Day Challenge in June & July. I think this project fits in well with the Creative Prompt Project and I agree with Tammy that an index card is a great canvas size.

Floated up in the air

rose petals

Joanna Rose (of Infinite Variety)

The Rose (movie)

rose bush

Berkeley Rose Garden

Rose Garden in Golden Gate Park

Poem: A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

Pete Rose

The Name of the Rose (movie)

Rose Bowl

Rose Pistola

The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley

He rose up

rose in the morning

The Rose Family by Robert Frost

The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple’s a rose,
And the pear is, and so’s
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only know
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose–
But were always a rose.

stocks rose on news that….

Symbolism: Roses have been long used as symbols in a number of societies. Roses are ancient symbols of love and beauty. “Rose” means pink or red in a variety of languages (such as Romance languages, Greek, and Polish). [In the classical era] The rose was sacred to a number of goddesses including Isis, whose rose appears in the late classical allegorical novel The Golden Ass as “the sweet Rose of reason and vertue” that saves the hero from his bewitched life in the form of a donkey.^[1] The ancient Greeks and Romans identified the rose with their goddesses of love, Aphrodite and Venus.

In Rome a wild rose would be placed on the door of a room where secret or confidential matters were discussed. The phrase sub rosa, or “under the rose”, means to keep a secret — derived from this ancient Roman practice.

heirloom roses

American Rose Society

Rose Parade, Pasadena, New Year’s Day

Stinking Rose (Garlic Restaurant in San Francisco)

Charlie Rose

color

Rose wine

Tournament of Roses

 

My SIL’s middle name

Definition: A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species. They form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers are large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows and reds. Most species are native to Asia, with smaller numbers native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Species, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and fragrance. Rose plants range in size from compact, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach 7 meters in height. Different species hybridize easily, and this has been used in the development of the wide range of garden roses.^[1]

The name rose comes from French, itself from Latin rosa, which was perhaps borrowed from Oscan, from Greek  rhodon (Aeolic wrodon), related to Old Persian wrd-, Avestan varda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr, Armenian vard.^[2][3]

Derrick Rose

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University

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I am reinvigorated now that Landscape Lady (@quiltscapes on Twitter) has joined the project.

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A good person is a gift to the whole world. – Heidi Wills

perfect gift for the person who has everything

Gift Tax

 

Fred Rogers

present

creative gift

Definition: A gift or a present is the transfer of something without the expectation of payment. Although gift-giving might involve an expectation of reciprocity, a gift is meant to be free. In many human societies, the act of mutually exchanging money, goods, etc. may contribute to social cohesion. Economists have elaborated the economics of gift-giving into the notion of a gift economy. By extension the term gift can refer to anything that makes the other happier or less sad, especially as a favor, including forgiveness and kindness. (Just so you know my blog is a gift to you!)

gift giving

unusual gift ideas

gift registry

gift the gift of….

gift baskets

gift card

handmade gift

 

escape paintball

Escape from Alcatraz

By Emily Dickinson

Escape from New York

a computer game

the Great Escape

escape fate

escape the maze

 

Definition: [ih-skeyp] Show IPAverb, es·caped, es·cap·ing, noun, adjective, verb (used without object). 1. to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. 2. to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil. 3.to issue from a confining enclosure, as a fluid. 4. to slip away; fade: The words escaped from memory. 5. Botany . (of an originally cultivated plant) to grow wild. verb (used with object):  7. to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.): He escaped the police. 8. to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil): She escaped capture. 9. to elude (one’s memory, notice, search, etc.). 10. to fail to be noticed or recollected by (a person): Her reply escapes me. 11. (of a sound or utterance) to slip from or be expressed by (a person, one’s lips, etc.) inadvertently.

Ford Escape SUV

Her name escapes me

escape the room

escapism: is mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation, as an “escape” from the perceived unpleasant or banal aspects of daily life. It can also be used as a term to define the actions people take to help relieve persisting feelings of depression or general sadness. (Wikipedia)

prison break

Escape”, a song by Journey from the album Escape

to elude

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to succeed in avoiding

 

 

Flower arrangement

What are your arrangements?

Do you need help with the arrangements?

What arrangement did you decide on for your blocks?

order

Music definition: The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as “the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structure” (Corozine 2002, p. 3). Orchestration differs in that it is only adapting music for an orchestra or musical ensemble while arranging “involves adding compositional techniques, such as new thematic material for introductions, transitions, or modulations, and endings…Arranging is the art of giving an existing melody musical variety” (ibid).

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• The Arrangement: A Novel, a 1967 work by Elia Kazan
• The Arrangement (1969 film), a film directed by Elia Kazan, adapted from his novel
• The Arrangement (1999 film), Canadian film directed by and starring Michael Ironside; unrelated to the work of Kazan
• The Arrangement (band), a popera group who entered Britain’s Got Talent
• The Arrangement (TV series), a reality series upcoming on Logo
• “The Arrangement”, a 1969 song by Oliver

(from Wikipedia)

Have you made arrangements for the meeting?

arrangement dating

arrangement of the furniture

childcare arrangements

musical arrangement

Edible Arrangements

Geometry Definition: In geometry and combinatorics, an arrangement of hyperplanes is a finite set A of hyperplanes in a linear, affine, or projective space S. Questions about a hyperplane arrangement A generally concern geometrical, topological, or other properties of the complement, M(A), which is the set that remains when the hyperplanes are removed from the whole space. One may ask how these properties are related to the arrangement and its intersection semilattice. The intersection semilattice of A, written L(A), is the set of all subspaces that are obtained by intersecting some of the hyperplanes; among these subspaces are S itself, all the individual hyperplanes, all intersections of pairs of hyperplanes, etc. (excluding, in the affine case, the empty set). These subspaces are called the flats of A. L(A) is partially ordered by reverse inclusion.

If the whole space S is 2-dimensional, the hyperplanes are lines; such an arrangement is often called an arrangement of lines. Historically, real arrangements of lines were the first arrangements investigated. If S is 3-dimensional one has an arrangement of planes.

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elevator

lift up your arms

Definition: to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.

web framework

lift a blockade

lift a curfew

lift my spirits

lift a glass

Definition: A fluid flowing past the surface of a body exerts surface force on it. Lift is any component of this force that is perpendicular to the oncoming flow direction.^[1] It contrasts with the drag force, which is the component of the surface force parallel to the flow direction. If the fluid is air, the force is called an aerodynamic force.

rising air used by soaring birds and glider, hang glider and paraglider pilots for soaring flight (Wikipedia)

movements in pair skating and ice dancing (Wikipedia)

facelift

ski lift

forklift

a symbol used in music notation (Wikipedia)

hydraulic lift

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memory book

The Persistence of Memory (Salvador Dali)

loss of memory

City of Memory – story map of NYC

memory album

Barbara Streisand – Memory

my memory is going

what a lovely memory!

random access memory

Definition: In psychology, memory is the processes by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. Encoding allows information that is from the outside world to reach our senses in the forms of chemical and physical stimuli. In this first stage we must change the information so that we may put the memory into the encoding process. Storage is the second memory stage or process. This entails that we maintain information over periods of time. Finally the third process is retrieval. This is the retrieval of information that we have stored. We must locate it and return it to our consciousness. Some retrieval attempts may be effortless due to the type of information.

computer memory

improve memory

American Memory from the Library of Congress

UCSF Memory & Aging Center

Memory (Cats Song): “Memory“, often incorrectly referred to as “Memories”, is a show tune from the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats^[1] sung by the character Grizabella, a one-time glamour cat who is now a shell of her former self. The song is a nostalgic remembrance of her glorious past and a declaration of her wishes to start a new life. Sung briefly in the first act and in full near the end of the show, “Memory” is the climax of the musical, and by far its most popular and well-known song.

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Definition: The word quatrefoil etymologically means “four leaves”, and applies to general four-lobed shapes in various contexts. In heraldic terminology, a quatrefoil is a representation of a flower with four petals, or a leaf with four leaflets (such as a four-leaf clover). It is sometimes shown “slipped”, i.e. with an attached stalk. However, it is not defined as a flower, but called a “foil”. In the U.S. Marine Corps, quatrefoil refers to a four-pointed decoration on the top of a warrant or commissioned Marine officer’s dress and service caps (see peaked caps, also known in the Marines as “barracks covers”). According to tradition, the design was first used with Marine officers on sailing ships so that Marine sharpshooters in the rigging did not shoot their own officers on the deck during close-quarters gun battles (as when crews of opposing ships attempted to board each other’s ship).

Quatrefoil Library in the Twin Cities

window

Phi Mu’s symbol is their sacred four-point quatrefoil. It is a unique shape and can be traced back to early European design. Phi Mus love to spot the popular shape in everyday use. Many wonder what the quatrefoil’s importance is to the fraternity but only a Phi Mu sister will know.

The quatrefoil is an ancient symbol of good luck, a Celtic symbol representing “the wheel of being,”

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Definition: In Euclidean geometry, a parallelogram is a convex quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides. The opposite or facing sides of a parallelogram are of equal length and the opposite angles of a parallelogram are of equal measure. The congruence of opposite sides and opposite angles is a direct consequence of the Euclidean Parallel Postulate and neither condition can be proven without appealing to the Euclidean Parallel Postulate or one of its equivalent formulations. The three-dimensional counterpart of a parallelogram is a parallelepiped.

The etymology (in Greek ????????-????????, a shape “of parallel lines”) reflects the definition.

rectangle

a shape

theorems for a parallelogram

not a triangle

a method of vector resolution

Parallelogram Lifts

area of a parallellogram

Android app

square

 

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iced tea

Tea Party

tea service

tea time

Boston Tea Party

tea chest

herbal tea

silver tea service

tea and crumpets

Imperial Tea Court

tea ceremony

ritual of tea

Lovejoy’s Tea Room, San Francisco

Cuppa

Republic of Tea

Definition: Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself.

After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world.^[2] It has a cooling, slightly bitter, astringent flavour which many people enjoy.^[3]

The phrase herbal tea usually refers to infusions of fruit or herbs made without the tea plant, such as rosehip tea or chamomile tea. Alternative phrases for this are tisane or herbal infusion, both bearing an implied contrast with “tea” as it is construed here.

tea garden

teapot

teacup

loose tea

tea bag

 

tea plantation

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Try to respond with the first thought that comes to your mind.

Definition: Indigo is a color named after the blue dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and related species. The color is placed on the electromagnetic spectrum between about 420 and 450 nm in wavelength, placing it between blue and violet. Although traditionally considered one of seven colors of the rainbow or the optical spectrum, modern color scientists do not usually recognize indigo as a separate division and generally classify wavelengths shorter than about 450 nm as violet.^[2] Optical scientists Hardy and Perrin list indigo as between 446 and 464 nm wavelength.^[3]

The first recorded use of indigo as a color name in English was in 1289.^[4]

indigo plantation

indigo children

indigo restaurant in San Francisco

Pokemon Indigo

Macintosh home control server

A chapter in Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

the Indigo Girls

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