CHUCKS? YEAHH, OF COURSE!!!!!!!!!
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I feel so sad about the news that Chuck ~~Chuck's~~Photos~~ passed away last night. He was an active member and moderator of many groups and well known to so many members here.
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I met Chuck here on Flickr over 12 years ago and considered him a very dear virtual friend. My most sincere condolences to his wife Brenda and the family. This is my personal tribute to him. ✝
I finally decided to post some of our favorite photos of our four legged child, because, as I discovered recently, someone else I know here on Flickr had done so with a little friend he lost a few years back with a very beautiful caption. I stared at the photo for some time. It saddened but inspired me. Chuck had developed cancer. The quality of his life had started to diminish. My wife and I agreed we would never let him suffer. It was time to let him go. I had only posted two photos prior to this because it was difficult and we still missed him. He gave us 14 glorious years. He gave us 100 percent of his love and loyalty day in and day out. He will always be cherished, fondly remembered, and spoken about often. He was a total joy!!
We’ve found (meaning other sharp eyed people found) two of this interesting bird in fairly dense vegetation. Its name comes from its call: Chuck-will’s-widow. I played the call on the internet and somewhat get the connection. It is in the nightjar family and hunts at night, finding the same or nearly the same branch to sleep on during the day. I visited it several times and was rewarded only with closed or partially open eyes. Finally, it was active: if you can call it that. It would rock sideways, look around, scratch and go back to sleep. I counted myself lucky. Reminded me of how I sleep, without the rocking that is. I read that it eats insects as well as small birds and bats. Now that would be something to see. Its bill is small, as shown by the image, but opens wide. (Antrostomus carolinensis) (Sony a9iii, 200-600 lens @ 600mm, 1/80 second, f/6.3, ISO 3200)
We have lost another one of the greats. This was taken at Aquafest in Austin,Texas summer of 1988. RIP Chuck!!
Chuck, Broad Street's vigilant crossing watchman highballs another one. The Griffith crossing watchman job was a high-seniority EJ&E position. I believe Chuck worked it up until his retirement.
The position has long since been abolished.
Griffith, Indiana. Fall of 1974.
Interestingness #91: 3-15-2009
Great Egret (Ardea alba) fishing, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida.
At our Amish Neighbor Ray's Third Annual Charity Event.
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"all my life i had been looking for something, and everywhere i turned someone tried to tell me what it was. i accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. i was naïve. i was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which i, and only i, could answer. it took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that i am nobody but myself."
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