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[JSngry]

[Aggie87]

Critters in my yard over the past couple days - Cottontail rabbits (many of them), Gila woodpeckers who think they are hummingbirds, and frequent mule deer.

 

[JSngry]

What eats the rabbits?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

We have a family of deer in our neighborhood.

[Ken Dryden]

19 hours ago, JSngry said:

I had two history classes with Dr. Bennett Wall, who told us that he flunked George Blanda twice when he taught at UK.

How you can tell when the pickings will be slim at an estate sale, this was on the first items pictured.

[Aggie87]

9 hours ago, JSngry said:

What eats the rabbits?

Here in the Sonoran desert, mostly the frequent and very healthy looking coyotes and bobcats.  Occasionally mountain lions as well, though they're around less since they tend to be solitary and cover a greater territory, and I haven't caught one on camera yet.

Also hawks and owls, which we also see regularly.  And rattlesnakes eat the younger rabbits as well.

Rabbits and Gambel's Quail are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain.

A Harris hawk on my back fence:

A bobcat near my driveway:

Coyotes on my neighbor's driveway:

[JSngry]

Circle of life, right?

[jazzbo]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slim Gaillard, Sarah Vaughan & Pee Wee Marquette at Sarah Vaughan's Birthday party at Birdland in NYC on the early morning of March 28, 1954. Photo by William "PoPsie" Randolph.

[jazzbo]

 

c1928….Jack Penewell and his Stella “Twiin-Six” guitar.

Jack was a multi-neck instrumentalist - he played a twin 6 string guitar and a twin 6 steel guitar. He also designed the world’s first double neck steel guitar (an acoustic model built by Gibson in 1932).

Jack Penewell was one of the stars of Marsh Laboratories’ Autograph label in the mid-1920s. Playing a Stella “Twin-Six” guitar, Penewell was already a hit with Midwestern radio fans when he cut his first known sides for Orlando Marsh in late 1924 or early 1925. He later went on to record a few titles for Paramount that were issued on their low-priced Broadway label .

Edited Sunday at 01:14 PM by jazzbo

[jazzbo]

 

Legendary recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder was born on this day November 2, 1924! An optometrist by trade, Rudy's true passion was sound recording & jazz. In 1953, he began recording Blue Note sessions in the living room of his parents' house in Hackensack, New Jersey, later moving into his own studio in Englewood Cliffs in 1959.

[jazzbo]

 

Aaron Bridgers, Billy Strayhorn, Billie Holiday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Gheorghe]

28 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

 

Aaron Bridgers, Billy Strayhorn, Billie Holiday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for sharing it with us. 

I didn´t know that Billy Strayhorn was so small, he looks like a little child. Billy Holiday is soooo beautiful. Exactly that´s the kind of faces I love. Women who have that look, I look at them and feel familiar. 

On 11/3/2025 at 1:13 AM, jazzbo said:

 

Legendary recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder was born on this day November 2, 1924! An optometrist by trade, Rudy's true passion was sound recording & jazz. In 1953, he began recording Blue Note sessions in the living room of his parents' house in Hackensack, New Jersey, later moving into his own studio in Englewood Cliffs in 1959.

Great pic. I have heard that the only thing RVG was interested in was the sound of recording. He never stated anything about the music itself. Before I knew that I always hoped that some day he will write a book about all those great sessions he did, about the music, the genius musicians who made it etc.......

[jazzbo]

Well, I did read from RVG that his favorite session was Coltrane's recording of "Lush Life" . . . and it was the music he was referencing, so I bet he did remark on the music at times.

[Aggie87]

Male mule deer lounging outside my living room window today.