mixed habitat & densely vegetated hiding places

Ox-eye Daisy.

( more flowers [7 photos] )

( birds [3 photos] )

( bugs [4 photos] )

( miscellaneous [4 photos] )

Thin-leaf Sunflower.

( flowers and the pollinators who love them [4 photos] )

( real birds [4 photos] )

( wooden birds at the Birds of Vermont Museum [10 photos] )

( miscellany [5 photos] )

The sixth sunshine_challenge prompt is Amphitrite, a goddess of the sea.

This put me in mind of a Youtube channel I recently started checking out, ListeningIn. He makes videos about music, art, and the cultural and historical connections between the two. I watch a lot of music history videos, so the algorithm wisely recommended this one about Debussy and Hokusai:


video description: Hokusai's 'The Great Wave Off Kanagawa' is one of the most recognisable paintings in art history. But why did Claude Debussy use a version of it on the front cover of the his orchestral masterpiece, 'La Mer'? In this essay, I look at the influence of Japanese art on cultural life in France in the 19th Century, and consider the connections between 'The Great Wave' and 'La Mer'.

I really enjoyed the analysis and the beautiful visuals and sound design of the video. Unfortunately, it does not have closed captions (though I see some of his more recent ones do), but since it isn't that long, I figured I'd type out the narration myself:

( Text of the Listening In video's narration )

( And here's the Debussy piece in its entirety )