Google earth does not update the map information very often, is there
a strategy to get Google to update the farm with new satellite
information when the flowers are in bloom?
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Cuyler Page <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Incredibly hot here in Victoria, BC today, and Windrift woodwind quintet
> played a benefit couple of hours under a pretty blue canopy out in a field
> at a rural farm Open House event in mid afternoon, the hottest time of
> all. The farm was recently bought by a charitable group for an experiment
> in dealing with the local homeless population. The large agricultural
> property is beautifully developed to provide jobs and living
> accommodations. One of the feature plantings is a giant crop art sunflower
> planted with 20,000 sunflowers along with the name of the farm planted in
> contrasting crop colour letters large enough to be seen easily by satellites
> and Google Earth.
>
> We began the first piece using the sound system set up by the same fabulous
> technicians we encountered two weeks ago at our concert in the Beacon Hill
> Park bandshell. Unfortunately, they forgot wind muffs for the mikes and
> the wind added a tymphonic sound to our playing. After the first piece, a
> Joplin Rag, I asked the audience if they could hear the electronic roaring
> wind and they all raised their hands. So, I said we were going to try an
> experiment and have the technicians turn off the sound system so we could
> play the second piece acoustically. I said I would then ask the audience
> opinion and go with their judgement for the rest of the playing, either
> acoustically or electronically enhanced. Suddenly, a brilliant
> yellow t-shirted bright eyed older man who looked like he had endured a hard
> life leapt to his feet shouting with arms triumphantly raised, "AN
> EXPERIMENT ! I LOVE EXPERIMENTS ! I'M A SCIENTIST ! GREAT ! GO FOR
> IT !"
>
> I should have known what would happen next. He was empowered. The
> audience all agreed that we should continue without the mikes, and
> he shouted out for something by the Beatles. Two tunes later, as I
> announced two pieces by the Strausses, father and son, the Egyptian March
> and the Annen Polka, he leapt up asking if the polka meant they could
> dance. I said they certainly could if they wished. As soon as the March
> began, he jumped to the front and began an exuberant dance to the music,
> hitting the beats really well with his body moves. I later found out that
> he had been a musician, a drummer. As the piece progressed, he progressed,
> gradually turning the Strauss march into the beginnings of a strip tease
> showpiece. We kept playing. By the time the polka began, an obviously
> structured counsellor type emerged to take his arm and lead the aged dancing
> nymph off to "elsewhere". Our streetwise ex-military career bandsman horn
> player commented darkly that the fellow probably had wine with his
> cornflakes for breakfast. The rest of the event was not quite as much fun,
> but we got good comments in spite of the wind, heat and humidity that made a
> mockery of concepts of intonation. However, we were all working so hard to
> cope that it may not have sounded that bad. It all reminded me of the
> motto the Ithaca Community Orchestra led by Karel Husa. "We're not as bad
> as we sound!" I think the heat got to everyone!
>
>
> cp in bc
> (saw one Perseid or one of their cousins)
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