the writing on the water was crystal clear ~ john mayer vh1 storytellers...

the writing on the water was crystal clear

i loved the lights that write on the water...it doesn't say much...but it carries your eyes somewhere for a minute doesn't it?....a little tug boat was rollin' in...it was quiet, peaceful and no one around, the little tug boat went around the whole inlet creek and then back out to sea...

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my favourite songs...all of them...but most of all waiting on the world to change and for the children...daughters...lots to write but no time...i have so many pix to upload...i have been in a stump...but i think i got over it yesterday, i went to church yesterday and today too...well...yesterday i went to a gospel choir...it was amazing...it'll be on sale this summer so that was cool, there will be a cd and a dvd...it was filled with the holy spirit in there last night...it was amazing...today...went to st. michael's cathedral for you...in honour of your silly new class...and last but not least mama....ya mama uplifted my spirits again...she say's she's feeling good, feeling better and enjoying herself...so...that makes me happy...she say's she's discovered laughter yoga....hahahahahaha the title just makes me laugh...you should try it! uhm...ya..so...i might look in to it...i think i do this on my own anyways :) ...anyways...love my mama....xoxo...she says why she never discovered laughter yoga sooner? i wish she did too...i pray you have a good night's sleep tonight...always and forever...you don't need any medicine...i always pray you don't need anymore...i love you sweet dreams...always and everynight ok?

God Bless You...

Soweto Gospel Choir - I bid you goodnight

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Great black gospel music group.

If this has blessed you, please comment and let me know so I will know that it did someone some good.

Please support the artists when you are able.
God Bless!

Jesus loves you more than you will ever know. If you have not given your life to Him and are interested in learning about salvation so that you can be with Him and your loved ones in heaven, just let me know and we can talk about it.

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oh gosh last but not least...last note...next week i see soweto gospel choir i'm so excited...thank you for all the concerts my sweet Jesus, my Saviour...and what a beautiful awards ceremony it was...

Notre Dame of Lyon - aka How to Take Clandestine Cathedral Pictures in 10 Steps

Notre Dame of Lyon - aka How to Take Clandestine Cathedral Pictures in 10 Steps, originally uploaded by Stuck in Customs.

Notre Dame of Lyon - aka How to Take Clandestine Cathedral Pictures in 10 Steps

I arrived in Lyon today for an upcoming game conference and went to the old medieval section of the city to grab some shots before dinner. This is the interior of the Basilique Notre Dame de Fourvière. It is probably the most lavish and beautiful cathedral I have ever been inside. It beats the other Notre Dame in Paris by a mile. I've never been in the Sistine Chapel, which is probably more lavish. I was going to visit it on my last trip to Rome but the Pope died the day I was there... so that one was... busy.

My method for getting tripods into cathedrals and shooting is this:

1) Go in the exit and act like you are lost if someone asks

1. Mozart: Requiem in D minor (K.626) / Savall 14,579 views

2) Wear a long matrix-coat and stuff your tripod up inside like a shotgun. Try not to walk with a limp.

2. Mozart: Requiem in D minor (K.626) / Savall 9,411 views

3) Stride confidently through the crowds like you are in a hurry on a photo assignment.

3. Mozart: Requiem in D minor (K.626) / Koopman 3,355 views

4) Work your way into the pews and have a seat. You can even pretend to be Catholic and say a few Latin words as you sit down. I suggest "Pater Noster (My Father) or Quid Pro Quo (Rub Beads and go to Heaven)"

4. Mozart: Requiem in D minor (K.626) / Savall 5,741 views

5) Slide out the tripod and assemble along the ground, When other parishioners look at you suspiciously, give them the sign of the cross.

5. Mozart: Requiem in D Minor (K.626) / Savall 4,447 views

6) Watch for old people in the main aisle, because they have trouble getting around tripods. Jump out, take your long exposures at 100 ISO, then sit back down.

6. Mozart: Requiem in D Minor (K.626) / Savall 37,869 views

7) If securty comes to get you, blame Stuck In Customs and that will confuse them long enough so you can make a getaway.

7. Mozart: Requiem in D minor, KV 626 / Philippe Herreweghe 224 views

8) Don't worry about getting caught. The church is much more leniant than they were during the Inquisition. Most big cathedrals do have crypts, but they are full of dead saints and they have never put a photographer in there.

8. Mozart: Requiem in D minor, KV 626 / Philippe Herreweghe 158 views

9) If you see a tourist with a tiny camera taking a picture with the flash on, please tell them to stop. The flash does nothing in that situation. It's just embarassing for them, really.

9. Mozart: Requiem in D minor, KV 626 / Philippe Herreweghe 158 views

10) If you want some post-processing techniques, check out my tutorial at stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/

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a swan foto for you sweetheart.....................<3

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The Notebook Rachel Mcadams Ryan Gosling Swans...

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i'm sad and i have been for a few, that's why i don't feel like writing...it's not you, it's me...but it would be nice to know if someone cared about my writings...but it doesn't matter, i enjoy my own writing for myself...and i'll always find something to cheer me up but still i'm sad right now at the moment...as i write...and i don't want to talk about it...when the times right for me...i was crying last night, i was sad, i don't know why i'm so sensitive....it's hard to write down your feelings like this? i don't know how people do this? i don't even know if people do this? of course they do? i'm not sure...of course they do? (i'm thinking to myself now on paper...back and forth, even stranger) and i don't know why i write this all down for myself...and more and more i'm not shy about writing it down...i think people would enjoy it? no? i don't know... :( but i enjoy writing...now...

...and i just love this song...by metric......



Drink up baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do
You won't but you might
The potential you'll be that you'll never see
The promises you'll only make
Drink up with me now
And forget all about the pressure of days
Do what I say and I'll make you okay
And drive them away
The images stuck in your head

The people you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still

Drink up baby, look at the stars
I'll kiss you again between the bars
Where I'm seeing you there with your hands in the air
Waiting to finally be caught
Drink up one more time and I'll make you mine
Keep you apart, deep in my heart
Separate from the rest, where I like you the best
And keep the things you forgot

The people you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still

Paradise

secknezz
November 11, 2006 725,332 views

Moby song Porcelain combined with various differnt beach shots equals paradise

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love being out in the wilderness and i still feel sad...like this foto? this is of tobermory ontario, i miss it out here...it's so beautiful here...i wish you could come see...you would love it...come visit sometime ok? looking northeast...before...i use to be so harsh and brash about telling you about this place but i've learned to be an open heartbeat for everyone...maybe they can feel my pulse...what do you think?



i guess now i feel like writing the feeling of when i was sitting here...it was peaceful...i could hear the waters hit the shore...it was complete sunshine not a cloud in the sky...that's how beautiful it was...no one was around...except for, now that i recall...this couple, the man lost his eye glasses...so we helped find them...and they gave us some fruit in return, i can't remember which fruit, i wish i did...anyways...i was sitting here...and thinking i never want to leave...i miss you...out there in the wilderness...please come back to me...see the rocks...i think it's from the glacier waters from a long time ago...i'm not sure though...please come back...



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knivesout33 god i love this
June 30, 2007 90,140 views

Again, english isn't my first language.
PS: I don't have (nor have written) any tab/score for it. It's all played by ear. Enjoy!

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
» Muse - Bliss (lyrics)

everything about you is how i'd wanna be
your freedom comes naturally
everything about you resonates happiness
now i won't settle for less

give me all the peace and joy in your mind

everything about you pains my envying
your soul can't hate anything
everything about you is so easy to love
they're watching you from above

give me all the peace and joy in your mind
i want the peace and joy in your mind
give me the peace and joy in your mind

everything about you resonates happiness
now i won't settle for less

give me all the peace and joy in your mind
i want the peace and joy in your mind
give me the peace and joy in your mind
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Also watch my Starlight cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9LNJR...

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Hey, Hey, Hey, Woman, it's alright.
Hey, Hey, Hey, Woman, it's alright.

In my dreams I'm dying all the time
Then I wake its kaleidoscopic mind
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to lie
So this is goodbye
This is goodbye

Hey, Hey, Hey, Woman, it's alright.
Hey, Hey, Hey, Woman, it's alright.

Tell the truth you never wanted me

Tell me...

In my dreams I'm jealous all the time
Then I wake I'm going out of my mind
Going out of my mind

Hey, Hey, Hey, Woman, it's alright.(x4)

looking northwest see that thing out there? that's manitoulin island, it's beautiful there too...found this cow crossing the road...it was so funny, one day i will upload it for you, that's the rock on the right that i was sitting on and on the left if you're adventurous you can go dive off the cliff with me 615,864 views :)

SchifferProduction i wish i could go there...i just found this, i said, "hey, good production" now that's living the dream....i wish i was there...
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Boat trip around Phi Phi Island in Thailand. Visiting Maya Bay "The Beach" Nov 2005. Moby - Porcelain

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the prism of light after our day together....when i saw the light hit the water...it's was such a sight...this shot isn't the greatest but you can see what i got...but you know what i can tell i've gotten better...but still...my camera's dying... :( hopefully i will get one the end of this year...my flash doesn't work anymore, so when i take night shots, i'm completely still, frozen so i can hopefully get a good shot...that's how much i love my camera? strange isn't it? does anyone love their camera as much as i do? would you use your camera even if it were on it's last limbs? sigh...beautiful sun setting huh? :)

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June 02, 2007 861,241 views

¡Beautiful version¡.Thom Yorke playing this amazing song of In Rainbows. No matter what happens now I won't be afraid Because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen.

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From the inside to the outside, passing through music, arts and science...using the majesty of nature as the main reference.

Name: Jaime Pineda
City: Bogotá
Hometown: Bogotá
Country: Colombia
Occupation: Electrical Engineer
Companies: Renewable Energies
Interests and Hobbies: Traveling, flying, meeting new cultures, practicing meditation, yoga, climbing, keep in contact with nature, mountains, sea, sky.......and of course i like cooking,.....
Movies and Shows: Baraka, Genesis, Crossing the Brigdge, The Wall, Meeting People is Eassy, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi, Microcosmos,........Farewell my Concubine, Contact, Samsara, Promises, Children of Heaven, Color of Paradise.......
Music: Folklor, aboriginal, sufi, dervish, native american, brithish rock....You know Radiohead my favorite rock band.....
Books: Inteligencia,Creatividad, Osho.

radiohead
January 01, 2008 3,755,470 views

A film with Radiohead in it made for New Year's Eve, 2007. Features every song on their new album IN RAINBOWS, the "physical manifestation" out now in stores.

Get the new album on CD and VINYL at the link below:
http://radiohead.shop.musictoday.com/

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Dreaming with a broken heart 89,489 views

joelborres
October 02, 2006 89,489 views

John Mayer - Dreaming with a broken heart (@ the shoreline amphitheatre)

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i found a swan family and four cygnets, i took a foto but uploading is a problem...so i only have the story to tell you, i hope that it'll work, i'll try later...hope hope

Swans
Mute Swans (Cygnus olor)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Subfamily: Anserinae Genus: Cygnus Bechstein, 1803
Species
6-7 living, see text.
Synonyms
Cygnanser Kretzoi, 1957

Swans, genus Cygnus, are birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae. There are six to seven species of swan in the genus Cygnus; in addition there is another species known as a swan, the Coscoroba Swan, although this species is no longer considered related to the true swans. Swans usually mate for life, though 'divorce' does sometimes occur, particularly following nesting failure. The number of eggs in each clutch ranges from three to eight.

Contents [hide] 1 Etymology and terminology 2 Description 3 Distribution and movements 4 Behaviour 5 Systematics and evolution 6 Role in culture 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Etymology and terminology

The word "swan" is derived from Old English swan, akin to the German Schwan and Dutch zwaan, in turn derived from Indo-European root *swen (to sound, to sing), whence Latin derives sonus (sound).^[1] Young swans are known as cygnets, from the Latin word for swan, cygnus. An adult male is a cob, from Middle English cobbe (leader of a group); an adult female is a pen.

[edit] Description

The swans are the largest members of the duck family Anatidae, and are amongst the largest flying birds. The largest species, including the mute swan, trumpeter swan, and whooper swan, can reach length of over 60 inches and weigh up to 50 pounds. Their wingspans can be almost 10 ft (3 m). Compared to the closely related geese they are much larger in size and have proportionally larger feet and necks.^[2] They also have a patch of unfeathered skin between the eyes and bill in adults. The sexes are alike in plumage, but males are generally bigger and heavier than females.

The Northern Hemisphere species of swan have pure white plumage but the Southern Hemisphere species are mixed black and white. The Australian Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is completely black except for the white flight feathers on its wings; the chicks of black swans are light grey in colour, and the South American Black-necked Swan has a black neck.

The legs of swans are normally a dark blackish grey colour, except for the two South American species, which have pink legs. Bill colour varies: the four subarctic species have black bills with varying amounts of yellow, and all the others are patterned red and black. The Mute Swan and Black-necked Swan have a lump at the base of the bill on the upper mandible.

[edit] Distribution and movements

Whooper Swans migrate from Iceland, Scandinavia and northern Russia to Europe, Central Asia, China and Japan

The swans are generally found in temperate environments, rarely occurring in the tropics. Four (or five) species occur in the Northern Hemisphere, one species is found in Australia and New Zealand and a final species is distributed in southern South America. They are absent from tropical Asia, Central America, northern South America and the entirety of Africa. One species, the Mute Swan, has been introduced to North America, Australia and New Zealand.^[2]

Several species are migratory, either wholly or partly so. The Mute Swan is a partial migrant, being resident over areas of Western Europe but wholly migratory in Eastern Europe and Asia. The Whooper Swan and Tundra Swan are wholly migratory, and the Trumpeter Swans are almost entirely migratory.^[2] There is some evidence that the Black-necked Swan is migratory over part of its range, but detailed studies have not established whether these movements are long or short range migration.^[3]

[edit] Behaviour

Swans feed in the water and on land. They are almost entirely herbivorous, although small numbers of aquatic animals may be eaten. In the water food is obtained by up-ending or dabbling, and their diet is composed of the roots, tubers, stems and leaves of aquatic and submerged plants.^[2]

Mute Swan's nest with two unhatched eggs

Swans form monogamous pair bonds that last for many years. In many cases these pair bonds can last for life, but divorces between pairs do occur.^[4] These bonds are maintained year round, even in gregarious and migratory species like the Tundra Swan, which congregate in large flocks in the wintering grounds.^[5] The nest is on the ground near water and about a metre across. Unlike many other ducks and geese the male helps with the nest construction. Average egg size (for the mute swan) is 113 x 74 mm, weighing 340 g, in a clutch size of 4 to 7, and an incubation period of 34–45 days.^[6] With the exception of the whistling-ducks they are the only anatids where the males aid in incubating the eggs.

Mute swans have been observed to display homosexual or transgender behavior.^[7]

[edit] Systematics and evolution

All evidence suggests that the genus Cygnus evolved in Europe or western Eurasia during the Miocene, spreading all over the Northern Hemisphere until the Pliocene. When the southern species branched off is not known. The Mute Swan apparently is closest to the Southern Hemisphere Cygnus (del Hoyo et al., eds, Handbook of the Birds of the World); its habits of carrying the neck curved (not straight) and the wings fluffed (not flush) as well as its bill color and knob indicate that its closest living relative is actually the Black Swan. Given the biogeography and appearance of the subgenus Olor it seems likely that these are of a more recent origin, as evidence shows by their modern ranges (which were mostly uninhabitable during the last ice age) and great similarity between the taxa.

A Swan in Imbersago (Italy)

Genus Cygnus

• Subgenus Cygnus
  • Mute Swan, Cygnus olor, is a Eurasian species that occurs at lower latitudes than Whooper Swan and Bewick's Swan across Europe into southern Russia, China and the Russian Maritimes. Recent fossil records, according to the British Ornithological Union, show Cygnus olor is among the oldest bird species still extant and it has been upgraded to "native" species in several European countries, since this bird has been found in fossil and bog specimens dating back thousands of years. Common temperate Eurasian species, often semi-domesticated; descendants of domestic flocks are naturalized in the United States and elsewhere.

Cygnus atratus and cygnet.

• Subgenus Chenopis
  • Black Swan, Cygnus atratus of Australia, and introduced in New Zealand.
    • New Zealand Swan, Cygnus atratus sumnerensis, an extinct subspecies of the Black Swan from New Zealand and the Chatham Islands.
• Subgenus Sthenelides
  • Black-necked Swan, Cygnus melancoryphus of South America.
• Subgenus Olor
  • Whooper Swan, Cygnus cygnus breeds in Iceland and subarctic Europe and Asia, migrating to temperate Europe and Asia in winter.
  • Trumpeter Swan, Cygnus buccinator is the largest North American swan. Very similar to the Whooper Swan (and sometimes treated as a subspecies of it), it was hunted almost to extinction but has since recovered.
  • Tundra Swan, Cygnus columbianus is a small swan which breeds on the North American tundra, further north than Trumpeter Swan. It winters in the USA.
    • Bewick's Swan, Cygnus (columbianus) bewickii is the Eurasian form which migrates from Arctic Russia to western Europe and eastern Asia (China, Japan) in winter. It is often considered a subspecies of C. columbianus, creating the species Tundra Swan.

The fossil record of the genus Cygnus is quite impressive, although allocation to the subgenera is often tentative; as indicated above, at least the early forms probably belong to the C. olor - Southern Hemisphere lineage, whereas the Pleistocene taxa from North America would be placed in Olor. A number of prehistoric species have been described, mostly from the Northern Hemisphere. Among them was the giant Siculo-Maltese C. falconeri which was taller (though not heavier) than the contemporary local dwarf elephants (Elephas falconeri).

Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) with nine cygnets

Swan eating grass

Swan preening itself

Fossil swans

• Cygnus csakvarensis (Late Miocene of Hungary) - formerly Cygnanser
• Cygnus mariae (Early Pliocene of Wickieup, USA)
• Cygnus verae (Early Pliocene of Sofia, Bulgaria)
• Cygnus liskunae (Middle Pliocene of W Mongolia)
• Cygnus hibbardi (?Early Pleistocene of Idaho, USA)
• Cygnus sp. (Early Pleistocene of Dursunlu, Turkey: Louchart et al. 1998)
• Giant Swan, Cygnus falconeri (Middle Pleistocene of Malta and Sicily, Mediterranean)
• Cygnus paloregonus (Middle Pleistocene of WC USA) - includes "Anser" condoni and C. matthewi
• Cygnus equitum (Middle - Late Pleistocene of Malta and Sicily, Mediterranean)
• Cygnus lacustris (Late Pleistocene of Lake Eyre region, Australia) - formerly Archaeocygnus
• Cygnus sp. (Pleistocene of Australia)^{[citation needed][verification needed]}

The supposed fossil swans "Cygnus" bilinicus and "Cygnus" herrenthalsi were, respectively, a stork and some large bird of unknown affinity (due to the bad state of preservation of the referred material). Anser atavus is sometimes placed in Cygnus.

The Coscoroba Swan (Coscoroba coscoroba) from South America, the only species of its genus, is apparently not a true swan. Its phylogenetic position is not fully resolved; it is in some aspects more similar to geese and shelducks.

The Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) is the largest native species of waterfowl in North America

[edit] Role in culture

See also: Black Swan emblems and popular culture

A swan depicted on an Irish commemorative coin in celebration of its EU accession.

"Łabędź" (Polish for "Swan") is a Polish coat of arms which was used by many szlachta (noble) families under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The variant here given is the coat-of-arms of writer Henryk Sienkiewicz's family.

Many of the cultural aspects refer to the Mute Swan of Europe. Perhaps the best known story about a swan is The Ugly Duckling fable. The story centres around a duckling that is mistreated until it becomes evident he is a swan and is accepted into the habitat. He was mistreated because real ducklings are, according to many, more attractive than a cygnet, yet cygnets become swans, which are very attractive creatures. Swans are often a symbol of love or fidelity because of their long-lasting monogamous relationships. See the famous swan-related operas Lohengrin and Parsifal. In the Irish legend The Wooing of Etain, the king of the Sidhe (subterranean-dwelling, supernatural beings) transforms himself and the most beautiful woman in Ireland, Etain, into swans to escape from the king of Ireland and Ireland's armies.

Swans feature strongly in mythology. In Greek mythology, the story of Leda and the Swan recounts that Helen of Troy was conceived in a union of Zeus disguised as a swan and Leda, Queen of Sparta. Other references in classical literature include the belief that upon death the otherwise silent Mute Swan would sing beautifully - hence the phrase swan song; as well as Juvenal's sarcastic reference to a good woman being a "rare bird, as rare on earth as a black swan", from which we get the Latin phrase rara avis, rare bird.

The Irish legend of the Children of Lir is about a stepmother transforming her children into swans for 900 years. The swan has recently been depicted on an Irish commemorative coin.

In Norse mythology, there are two swans that drink from the sacred Well of Urd in the realm of Asgard, home of the gods. According to the Prose Edda, the water of this well is so pure and holy that all things that touch it turn white, including this original pair of swans and all others descended from them. The poem Volundarkvida, or the Lay of Volund, part of the Poetic Edda, also features swan maidens.

In the Finnish epic Kalevala, a swan lives in the Tuoni river located in Tuonela, the underworld realm of the dead. According to the story, whoever killed a swan would perish as well. Jean Sibelius composed the Lemminkäinen Suite based on Kalevala, with the second piece entitled Swan of Tuonela (Tuonelan joutsen). Today, five flying swans are the symbol of the Nordic Countries and the whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) is the national bird of Finland.

In Latin American literature, the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916) consecrated the swan as a symbol of artistic inspiration by drawing attention to the constancy of swan imagery in Western culture, beginning with the rape of Leda and ending with Wagner's Lohengrin. Darío's most famous poem in this regard is Blasón - "Coat of Arms" (1896), and his use of the swan made it a symbol for the Modernismo poetic movement that dominated Spanish language poetry from the 1880s until the First World War. Such was the dominance of Modernismo in Spanish language poetry that the Mexican poet Enrique González Martínez attempted to announce the end of Modernismo with a sonnet provocatively entitled, Tuércele el cuello al cisne - "Wring the Swan's Neck" (1910).

Swans are revered in Hinduism, and are compared to saintly persons whose chief characteristic is to be in the world without getting attached to it, just as a swan's feather does not get wet although it is in water. The Sanskrit word for swan is hamsa or hansa, and it is the vehicle of many deities like the goddess Saraswati. It is mentioned several times in the Vedic literature, and persons who have attained great spiritual capabilities are sometimes called Paramahamsa ("Great Swan") on account of their spiritual grace and ability to travel between various spiritual worlds. In the Vedas, swans are said to reside in the summer on Lake Manasarovar and migrate to Indian lakes for the winter. They're believed to possess some powers such as the ability to eat pearls. They are also believed to be able to drink up the milk and leave the water from a saucer of milk adulterated with water. This is taken as a great quality, as shown by this Sanskrit verse:

Hamsah shwetah, bakah shwetah, kah bhedah hamsa bakayo?
Neeraksheera viveketu, Hamsah hamsah, bakah bakah!

(The swan is white, the duck is white, so how to differentiate between both of them?
With the milk-water test, the swan is proven swan, the duck is proven duck!)

Hindu iconography typically shows the Mute Swan. It is wrongly supposed by many historians that the word hamsa only refers to a goose, since today swans are no longer found in India, not even in most zoos. However, ornithological checklists clearly classify several species of swans as vagrant birds in India.

The ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky is considered among both the most important works of this composer and among the often-performed classics of ballet. It is partially based on an ancient German legend, which tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse - to which were added similar elements from Russian Russian folk tales^[8]. Some major elements (girls turned to swans and living in a lake, and a hero falling in love with one of them) are also shared by the Irish mythology story of Caer Ibormeith.

The 1994 American animated film The Swan Princess is also derived from the same ancient sources, featuring an evil sorcerer who kidnaps a princess named Odette and curses her so that she is a swan by day and a woman by night, until the prince comes to rescue her.

Hans Christian Anderson's tale "The Wild Swans" is similar to the "Children of Lir" story. The king has eleven sons and one daughter, named Elisa. The evil stepmother turns the eleven brothers into swans and banishes Elisa, an interesting exception to the tradition swan maidens.

The Black Swan is the faunal emblem of the Australian state of Western Australia and swans are featured on the coat of arms of Canberra, the Australian capital.

Today, swans are used symbolically or as brands. The Sydney Swans AFL Team uses a swan as its club emblem/mascot, and Swansea City A.F.C.'s mascot is a swan called Cyril the Swan. Swan is also the name of a character in the film "The Warriors."

"The Bonny Swans" is a song from Loreena McKennitt's 1994 album The Mask and Mirror.

Carl Orff's cantata, Carmina Burana (and presumably also the collection of poetry upon which it is based) includes a text describing the roasting (and serving) of a swan as described from the swan's point of view.

Icelandic musician Björk wore the infamous 'swan dress' designed by Marjan Pejoski to the 73rd Annual Academy Awards.

In the philosophy of science, the discovery of the black swan after centuries of only observing white swans, is often used as an example of the problem of induction.

In the United Kingdom there is a popular belief that all swans are the property of the reigning Monarch. In fact their right to ownership of swans is restricted to unmarked mute swans on open water, and this right is exercised only on certain stretches of the River Thames and some of its tributaries between Windsor and Abingdon. ^[9]

lloydhester462
November 11, 2008 1,780 views

I love this film and since I wish someday I can run away to an island like that one I thought it would be fun to do

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tbc...love forever...goodnight everyone...i love love songs...and beautiful things...do you? sweet lullaby's a second chance please come back