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Find the Words Tag Game

I was tagged by @aquil-writes! My words are hunger, toss, wary, daze, share, and pour!

Obviously I'm pulling from The Heartwood Trilogy. :)

Hunger - From Lilydale

But the way his eyes melted to chocolate stopped the words in his throat, made Micah flush. He caught his lip between his teeth and Andrew’s dark gaze slid down to watch. Micah brushed his fingers down Andrew’s cheek and he leaned into the touch. Then their lips met with hunger, mouths open, tongues circling. For a spell that was enough, the heat and taste and the absence of any other soul around them. Yeah..."hunger" is a sex word for me hehe

Toss - From Agassiz

Fionna shook off her wolfskin and snatched the tin out of Diana’s hand. Diana yelped, falling back off her knees onto her ass. She stared disbelievingly at the wolf girl but had the wherewithal to keep her mouth clamped shut. Fionna opened the tin and sniffed deeply with her eyes flashing, licking the balm with the tip of her tongue. Seemingly approving, she tossed it to Andrew. Then she shifted her eerie wolf gaze to Diana and grinned broadly.

Daze - From Lilydale

Dazed, Micah tried to shake his head clear and grabbed his chin, groaning. Before he collected himself, Julian jumped off the couch and grabbed Micah by the collar, shaking him. “How could you do this to me?” he demanded.

Share - From Agassiz

“Here’s the thing,” said Andrew firmly, “you get to choose what being Fae means. There’s no one else like you. Not even Ingrid, even though you share the Redwood Queen in common. You are bound to be different than her. This is your path.”

Pour - From Agassiz

She felt Lucienne arrive in her shelter and hurry over to the bed in the corner. When she leaned over Ingrid, Lucienne sucked in a sharp gasp. Gracelessly, she clattered through Ingrid’s belongings by the door on a black shelf that held medicinal herbs. Lucienne returned with an armful of jars and stepped over Micah’s prone body to kneel above his head. She poured water from a pitcher into a large dish and dropped a terrycloth inside. Ingrid watched her, waiting, holding a linen kerchief in her palm, hovering over the handle. Lucienne lifted her bright, serious gaze. Then she nodded. Ingrid grasped the handle of the athame and yanked.

This was so fun! Thanks for the tag, @aquil-writes!

Oddly, I couldn't find wary which is kind of a bummer. I must have forgotten that word existed, because I have plenty of wary characters in this trilogy, haha. Gonna go add some people peering warily... For my part, I tag @writeintrees, @zigelani, @vicstmichael, and @rachaellawrites, and anyone else who wants to play! Your words are bound, scream, silence, prove, and scan.

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“From Agassiz Correctional Camp: Camp Puppeteers entertain youngsters,”  THE CHILLIWACK PROGRESS, Wednesday, November 3, 1971. 3A. ---- The Camp Puppeteers were activated at the Agassiz Correctional Work Camp during July of this year. 

The Camp Superintendent, W. A. Hall, asked Cliff Sherlock, a former professional puppeteer and now a staff member at the camp, to form the group as a a therapeutic activity for the men. Since that time the club performed weekly shows for the Easter Seal Camp for crippled children at Chehalis during the summer months, the Agassiz Raspberry Social, the Chilliwack fall fair, and at several schools and community functions. 

On Sunday, they performed at the Kiwanis Halloween Party at the Chilliwack Armories before more than 400 youngsters. Because of the large crowd it was was necessary to put on two shows. 

The club consists of 15 men who are accompanied by three musicians from the camp when required. At present they have a repertoire of four plays with a further two plays in the process of being prepared for the Christmas season.

Several bookings have been accepted by the club within the upper Fraser Valley area tion. between now and Christmas, but they are still open for more engagements from any interested group or organization.

The men gladly donate their talents to any community social or charitable function but are also seeking private commercial engagements. 

Any person, business, community group or charitable organization wishing to contact The Camp Ruppeteers may do so by telephoning Superintendent Hall at Agassiz 796-2712 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday to Friday. 

CAMP PUPPETEERS entertain children Sunday with a Halloween skit at Chilliwack Armory at a children's' party sponsored by Chilliwack Kiwanis Club. Puppet show was staged by inmates from Agassiz Correctional Camp. Some 450 youngsters attended the affair,

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Mourning doves illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes in the book Birds of New York (1910–14) by Elon Howard Eaton.

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Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 22, No. 6. July/August 1984.

Internet Archive

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Screech Owl (1902) by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

New York Fish and Game Commission.

University of Washington

Wikimedia.

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Feathursday Pheasants!

This week we bring you a few Pheasants from around the world as published in the 1936 publication Pheasants Their Lives and Homes by the eminent zoologist and explorer William Beebe, published in Garden City, N.Y. by Doubleday, Duran & Company under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, where Beebe was director of the Department of Tropical Research.

In 1910, Beebe led a major, 17-month, worldwide expedition for the New York Zoological Society to document the world's pheasants. "The urgency of this journey sprang from the fact that the members of this most beautiful and remarkable group of birds are rapidly becoming extinct, so that the record of their habits and surroundings, which is important to understanding their structure and evolution, will soon be lost forever."

The resulting publication was the 4-volume A Monograph of the Pheasants, published in London by H. F. Witherby for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1922. The abridged version, Pheasants Their Lives and Homes, first came out in 1926. This is the 1936 edition. The images shown here are by naturalist artists Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Henrik Grønvold, Henry Jones, Charles R. Knight, and George Edward Lodge.

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More for #LoveHornbillsDay:

"Crested Hornbill" now known as the Silvery-Cheeked Hornbill (Bycanistes brevis)

painted in 1926 by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927), reproduced in Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals (1930) by the Field Museum. Via BHL.

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Louis Agassiz Fuertes - The Raven and Skulls. Final page in 'The Cornellian' (magazine) of 1896.

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Bahama Duck, Galapagos Island Duck, African Red-Billed Duck (1922-1926) | Louis Agassiz Fuertes | A natural history of the ducks v.2

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Pine Grosbeak. Fuertes.  This is an early Fuertes and I think if you remember that at the time he would have painted it, presumably sometime within the first decade of so of the 20th century, there was really on artist doing realistic paintings of birds in North America, you can understand the support he quickly had from the ornithological community.  And unlike Brooks, Fuertes was well positioned geographically, being located near Cornell University, and close to the epicentre of natural history science of that era.  It’s a translucent watercolour, very “field-guide-ish” with neutral lighting and simplified environment.

art by louis agassiz fuertes

text by barry kent mackay

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Louis Agassiz Fuertes

In a departure from our usual uncharismatic animals, and to mark the end of Hispanic Heritage Month in the US, I’d like to discuss a man easily comparable to Audubon: Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

Fuertes was born in New York to Puerto Rican parents in 1874. His father was an astronomer and civil engineer, and recognised his son’s talent and passion for birds at an early age; this revelation might have been aided by an incident involving young Fuertes tying a live owl to the kitchen table. Fuertes became an Associate Member of the American Ornithologists Union at age 17, and was mentored at Cornell University by Elliott Coues, the nation's leading ornithologist.

After graduating, Fuertes went on expeditions to document new species. These expeditions were led by a number of famous explorers, including artist Abbott H. Thayer, financier E. H. Harriman, and zoologist C. Hart Merriam. As he established himself as an ornithologist and illustrator in his own right, Fuertes continued to travel the world, covering much of North America and venturing to other countries like the Bahamas, Jamaica, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, and Ethiopia in pursuit of new species.

 Between these travels Fuertes collaborated with the curator of American Museum of Natural History, Frank Chapman, to create field guides, dioramas, and book illustrations. Fuertes also discovered a species of oriole, known now as Fuertes's oriole or the orchard oriole (Icterus fuertesi). Beginning in 1923 Fuertes regularly lectured on ornithology at his alma mater, Cornell. He completed his last expidition in 1926-27, when he accompanied W. H. Osgood on the Chicago Field Museum’s trip to Ethiopia and produced some of his most famous works. Shortly after his return, Fuertes was killed in a train accident. He was 53 years old.

Fuertes’s legacy continues on in two species of bird: the Orchard Oriole and Fuertes's parrot (Hapalopsittaca fuertesi), which was rediscovered in 2002 after being thought to be extinct. To honor his adventurous spirit, the Boy Scouts of America made Fuertes an Honorary Scout after his death in 1927. The Wilson Ornithological Society established the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Award in 1947, and he has been credited with influencing other later wildlife artists.

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"Fraser Valley Milk Producers To Picnic at Cultus Lake Saturday," Chilliwack Progress. July 12, 1934. Page 1. ---- Saturday next is the date and Cultus Lake Park the place of the annual picnic held by members of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association comprising nearly 4000 members. Commenting on the forthcoming picnic, "Butter-Fat," the official publication of the F.V M. P. A, says there is a popular song, the theme of which is that more happiness is possible in this world through frequently mixing with our fellow beings, thus "The More We Get Together the Happier We'll Be." Again quoting from "Butter-Fat" the following is the program of events:

12 a.m. - A good old-fashioned basket picnic (bring your own), milk and hot water provided free.

1 p.m. Speeches from the band stand and music amplified by loud speakers. Exhibition of Scottish dancing and the picnic will be graced by the attendance of the Queen of the Cherry Carnival. Mins Ella Marcy (the F.V.M.P.A. candidate at the recent festival together with her newly elected princesses.

2 p.m. Tug-o-war championship, pull-off between several powerful teams, including the present title holders of Ladner, also Matsqui, Langley and other teams. Children's sports under the direction of A. R. R. Craig, of Agassiz.

2:30 p.m. - Dancing in pavilion.

3 p.m. - Softball game between F.V.M.P.A. Utility Plant and Associated Dairies teams. Boating and bathing.

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"Longbill the Woodcock", illustration by Louis Agassiz Fuertes from The Burgess Bird Book for Children (1919) by Thornton W. Burgess.

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Album of Abyssian Birds and Mammals. From paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. 1930.

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Illustration by Louis Agassiz Fuertes of greyhounds taken from ‘The Book of Dogs’ (1919).

The National Geographic Society.

Smithsonian Libraries.

Wikimedia.