My youngest brother had an accident on his Harley a few months ago and after one botched shoulder op, he saw a specialist who said he could fix it with a second surgery. Father of 3 in his 50's he has

A few months ago I published a post about my giant South African native Cycad Encephalartos lebomboensis, commonly known as the Lombondo Cycad, when it first started growing a huge pineapple in it's center.

We were thrilled to have the wedge tail eagle ready for release back on the property where it had the fight with the geese. After a stay in the wildlife hospital giving time for the fight wounds to heal

Look at those long talons! I have been working as a volunteer with my local wildlife group The Tweed Valley Wildlife Carers for ten years now. I am their records officer and web administrator. Recently

Living in the Australian rain forest can be challenging. Especially when critters invade your private space. Last week I came in late and noticed some things had fallen off my bedside table. At first I

Image Source Yesterday I found the complete 3rd season of Stranger Things and am half way though watching it. This awesome new season, sees the now teenage youngsters back on the hunt for the source of

A few weeks ago I received my crystal grid from @adammillwardart, a great artist advertising and showing off his amazing talent here on the blockchain. i love it and it looks amazing together with some

image Source Photo by Orlova Maria on Unsplash Exodus from country to cities In the past the need for jobs, modern conveniences, education and social interaction, drove people away from the country to

Beautiful staghorn photo taken just outside my house in the rainforest. It seeded naturally on the red cedar tree in my garden.

Image Source After some months of practicing chords and scales, giving your musical ear a chance to becomes familiar with the sounds of individual notes and where they are found on your instrument; you

Image Source I hope people are finding these practice tip posts useful. I would love to hear from folks about how your practice is going. My fiddle practice is going great I recently reviewed some videos

Image Source-Photo by Anderson W Rangel on Unsplash Discovering Practice Videos & Recordings It was not until I signed up for lessons with Darol Anger on the Artist Works Website that I discovered

What happened to steemimages.com? Since joining #steemit, I have been uploading my images to this website so as to have a link to use on this #engrave blog for each image. However the last couple of weeks

(All images in this post are from Find a Friend to Practice With Practicing on you own is very important for musical advancement, but practicing with another person is equally as important. i suggest at

Image Source I want to start this post with something that is really important to your musician skills, but which many people forget to implement... Relaxation. Pre Practice Relaxation Exercise We all

I am happy to now be a minnow and would like to thank all the steemians who helped me to reach this goal. So thanks so much to the tenkminnows project, @paulag, @kus-knee, @steevc, @steemcommunity,

I came home very late last night and was met along the path to my front door by this beautiful flower. The moonlight cactus only flowers once a year and the flowers only open at night for one night. I

DIY Guitar Studio I love to go through my collection of 2000 old vinyl records and see wha ones I have forgotten about. I found this one today when I was going though my vinyl collection, that I forgot

This blog post was inspired by a recent post from @chbartist The First Months of Trying to Do or Learn Something New... I hope this post will encourage others to find the courage, determination and stamina

This post is intended to be useful to musicians of all levels of proficiency. Please comment below if you find it useful and give me some feedback Image Source What Are Listening Skills Music listening