Odds and Ends

A future musician gets her first introduction to the flute. ODT: Begins with "F" AIMG_1124

A brass tuba bell at the Boston Band Festival 2010 reflects the interior of historic Faneuil Hall. Topic of the day: Instrument AIMG_1097

“A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell.” Lord Byron

Andean Condor at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston. The Andean Condor is the national symbol of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador and Peru. It is a very large bird, having a wingspan of 10.5 feet. AIMG_1446

Boat-billed Heron at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts. AIMG_1448

This butterfly had recently emerged from its cocoon and was drying off its wings on a screen at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts. The light coming through its wings picked up the pattern of the screen AIMG_1429

A peacock at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts. AIMG_1433

An Andean Condor at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston Massachusetts.sunning itself. The Andean Condor is the national symbol of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador and Peru. It is a very large bird, having a wingspan of 10.5 feet. AIMG_1443

Snow leopards live at altitudes between 10,000 and 18,000 feet above sea level in the mountains of Central and South Asia. This one lives in the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Rhode Island. ODT: On edge IMG_1329