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[[File:Redfish lake.JPG|thumb|530px|left|<big>[[Redfish Lake]] in central [[Idaho]] is the largest lake in the [[Sawtooth National Recreation Area]]. It is situated at over 6,500 feet (2,000 meters) elevation, and is 4 1/2 miles (7 km) long. It lies 2 mi. (3 km) south of the resort town of [[Stanley, Idaho|Stanley]]. This view looking southwest shows the mountain mass of the [[Grand Mogul]], rising to 9,733 feet (2,967 meters). The lake was named for the reddish [[Sockeye salmon|sockeye salmon]], an anadromous species that formerly spawned here, but dams on the Columbia River system now largely prevent sockeyes from reaching the lake. Today it is home to trout, including rainbow, cutthroat, and brook trout; and to [[kokanee salmon]] and [[Chinook salmon]], among other species.  Tourist amenities include campsites and hiking trails maintained by the [[U.S. Forest Service]].</big>]]

[[File:Tawny Owl Lincolnshire.jpg|thumb|240px|right|<big>''You are being watched...''</big>]]

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==<span style="color:darkgreen">''Polite''</span> comments may be posted below.==

== Always precious ==
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Ten years ago, [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Precious#{{BASEPAGENAME}}|you]] were found precious. That's what you are, always. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 16:09, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
:''Danke'', Gerda. – [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 01:49, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
=== October thanks ===
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Thank you for your appreciation! [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#22 Oct|My story]] is about a composer and choir conductor, listen to his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KOI4Vfrq7s Lamento]. - [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#13 Oct|My story on 13 October]] was about a Bach cantata. As this place works, it's on the Main page ''now'' because of the date (but Bach wrote it for the 20th Sunday, not the Tuesday after the 21st Sunday after Trinity). I sort of like it because today is the birth date of my grandfather who loved and grew dahlias like those pictured. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 13:34, 22 October 2024 (UTC)


[[File:002 Pickled cucumber.jpg|thumb|150px|left|<big>Homemade pickles</big>]]

:Well, my (maternal) grandfather -- who was of Swiss-German descent -- made his own dill pickles.  His entire back yard was a cucumber patch. -- [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 13:46, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
::Was he in [[Dill Pickle Club|the club]]?? [[User:Martinevans123|Martinevans123]] ([[User talk:Martinevans123|talk]]) 13:55, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
— No, but he was in Kiwanis, Rotary, and the Big Frog Small Pond Club. -- [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 15:00, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
:: (ec) Interesting. My (maternal) grandparents - where I spent most summer holidays from age 5 to 10 - had a large property (former barracks): the front garden was dominated by a broad band of dahlias and other flowers, framing rows of cucumbers and dill (!), lettuce, herbs, radishes, carrots ..., behind the house fruit trees with strawberries and potatoes underneath, and to the side berries, asparagus and a fenced area for chicken and a goat. Paradise. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 13:59, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
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:::You [[Paradise and Lunch|said it]]! [[User:Martinevans123|Martinevans123]] ([[User talk:Martinevans123|talk]]) 14:04, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
::Relatives claimed Grandpa's secret pickle ingredient was cigarette ashes. -- [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 12:31, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
::: interesting! - Happy whatever you celebrate today, - more who died, more to come, and they made the world [[User talk:Gerda Arendt#rich day|richer]]. Greetings from Madrid where I took the pic in 2016. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 15:50, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
::::''War eine Witze, natürlich.'' -- [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 20:35, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
=== November music ===
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For a surprise, [[O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60|a Bach cantata]] is on the Main page today, where it was last year for the 300th anniversary, and they were too lazy to find something new ;) - Look at my story, and listen to the 3 whole-tone steps and the dialogues of Fear and Hope. - An [[Wikipedia:2024 open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation|open letter]] open to be signed (more info on the talk), - I haven't checked if you did, please ignore then. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 21:05, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

[[Madeleine Riffaud]] - [[User talk:Gerda Arendt#remember|remember]]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 15:36, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
:An interesting and heroic person for sure. Thanks. -- [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 16:40, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
:: Yes! - I uploaded pics of a trip that was a 10-day celebration of a 16 November event, but the day was also when a dear friend died. We sang [[Hevenu shalom aleichem]] at his funeral yesterday, and it was good. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 18:52, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

=== December music ===
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Listen today to [[Beethoven]]'s 3rd cello sonata, on his birthday - it was a hook in the [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#16 Dec|2020 DYK set]] when his 250th birthday was remembered. I picked a recording with [[Antônio Meneses]], because he was on my [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Recent deaths|sad list]] this year, and I was in Brazil (see places), and I love his playing. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 21:50, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

:''"O Freunde, nicht diese Töne ... sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen....''" – [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 16:29, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
:: ''... und freudenvollere!'' - I come to fix the cellist's name, with [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#18 Dec|a 10-years-old DYK]] and new pics - look for red birds --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 20:13, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
:: My [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#25 Dec|first Christmas story]] is about [[Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91]], 300 years today, and its song, 500 years old. Enjoy! - Thanks for your message! --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 14:37, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
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== January music ==
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Happy new year 2025, opened with [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#1 Jan|trumpet fanfares]] that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page has). -- [[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 16:01, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

:I went to bed about 10, wearing earplugs. Slept like a frog in a bog. -- [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 16:14, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
:: Sounds like a good start! (It was similar for me.) How do you like the fanfares? --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 16:47, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
:::Fare-ly well, altho in general I'm not a great fan of brass -- except maybe ''das Saxophon''. The audience certainly liked them. -- [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 18:33, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
::::BTW, I once saw Bach's purported grave in the ''Thomaskirche'' – in 1971, when Leipzig was in the DDR. (Fortunately, Leipzig didn't suffer the horrible fate of Dresden.) – [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 19:07, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::''PS:'' Nice icicle pic - v. delicate. -- [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 14:29, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::: Thank you for noticing! - [[Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123]], my [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories|story today]] 300 years after the first performance, is up for GAN. Delicate music. - [[Dada Masilo]] will be my story tomorrow. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 21:57, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::: My [[User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#8 Jan|story today]] is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 11:20, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::: ... and today, [[Wikipedia:Main Page history/2025 January 14|pictured on the Main page]], [[Tosca]], in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author [[User talk:Brianboulton|Brian Boulton]]. --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 18:12, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::: [[Otto Schenk]] today who directed lasting performances --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 21:01, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::: Today I had [[Elgar Howarth|a composer]] (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with [[Alexander Goehr|another]] who just became GA, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 08:31, 21 January 2025 (UTC)


:::::::Good of you to post cheerful colors on The Day After.  I'm wearing black & ystdy played [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._2_(Chopin)#Funeral_march Chopin's Funeral March]. -- [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 14:44, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
::::::::"It's gettin ' dark, too dark to see." – [https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/knockin-heavens-door| Bob Dylan] — [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 15:27, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::::::''Incertum quo fata ferunt.'' -- [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 16:38, 6 March 2025 (UTC)
::::::::::"And though the rules of the road have been lodged, it’s only people’s games that you got to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency '''DOGE''']." [https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding| – Bob Dylan] <br>– [[User:Sca|Sca]] ([[User talk:Sca#top|talk]]) 15:31, 5 May 2025 (UTC)