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I kid you not, a few days ago, there were upwards of 40 birds scattered around my front/back/side yards. I tried to get them all together for a group photo, but suprisingly, they weren't very cooperative.
these two, and then later three, were taking a bath.
Bath-Time is one of his favorite times. Normally he takes a shower several days a week, but this morning I was in a hurry. So when I gave him a bowl of veggies this afternoon, he dove in like it was a bath - that was my clue. LOL So I emptied the veggies in another bowl and put some warm water for him and this is what he did! :)
Bath, Maine; built in 1937 by the W.T. Grant Company, a chain of variety stores known simply as Grant's.
My Teddy in the bath. It's a little precarious taking photographs with your phone in such a damp and active environment! But we managed it...
...just!
The medieval Abbey sits in the centre of this historic town. The present building dates to the 17th-century as a rebuild after it was ruined during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Oro supplex et acclinis
Venanzio Rauzzini (19 December 1746-8 April 1810) was an Italian castrato, composer, pianist, singing teacher and concert impresario. As a boy he was a member of the Sistine Chapel Choir and studied in Rome and Naples. It has been suggested that Rauzzini may not in fact have been a castrato, but rather had an endocrine condition that prevented his voice from breaking, hence his many affairs, as he was thought to be 'safe'.
Rauzzini was born at Camerino. He made his professional opera debut in 1765 at the Teatro Valle in Rome portraying one of the female characters in Niccolo Piccinni's opera 'Il finto astrologo'. He sang at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice in 1766, after which he performed at the Munich Hopofer in 1776-1767. Rauzzini had to leave the Munich court because of his many affairs with married women. He next sang at the court at Vienna in 1767, where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reacted with delight when he heard Rauzzini singing and offered him the role of 'primo uomo' in his Lucio Silla (1772), in Milan, before composing the motet 'Exsultate Jubilate (1773) especially for him.
Rauzzini returned for performances in Venice and Munich during the early 1770s and also had a very successful run in London from 1774 until his retirement from the stage in 1778. After his opera career ended he worked as a singing and piano teacher and also composed a number of operas. After living in London for some years he settled in Bath in 1780 and became Director of the New Assembly Room Concerts in 1781. Joseph Haydn stayed with him in 1784 and composed the canon 'Turk was a Faithful Dog' as a gift for his host, taking the words from the garden memorial to Rauzzini's favourite dog. Rauzzini directed and financed concert life in Bath from c. 1781 until his death in 1810; many of his pupils appeared in the subscription concerts that he organised each year. Before his death he published vocal exercises and a treatise on his ideas on singing. Venanzio Rauzzini is buried in Bath Abbey where there is a memorial erected to him by his pupils Anna Selina Storace and John Braham.
Bath Abbey, south aisle.