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The John "Broadway" Tucker Band performs at the 2008 Gilroy Garlic
Festival, Gilroy, CA (July, 2008).
"The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad."
– Leon
Redbone
Bird houses along Ipswich River, Ipswich, MA (July, 2008)
A bird
does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
–
Chinese Proverb
Fish ladder at Mills Dam on Ipswich River, Ipswich, MA (July, 2008)
Fishways, most commonly called fish ladders but also known as fish passes and in Australia also referred to as fish steps, are structures on or around artificial barriers (such as dams and weirs) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration. Most fishways enable fish to pass around the barriers by swimming and leaping up a series of relatively low steps (hence the term ladder) into the waters on the other side. The velocity of water falling over the steps has to be great enough to attract the fish to the ladder, but it cannot be so great that it washes fish back downstream or exhausts them to the point of inability to continue their journey upriver. (Wikipedia, 2008)
Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe, NM (July, 2008)
Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
– The Dalai Lama
