GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
And welcome to CoffeeBreak. This is the stand-in for Daybreak until next Monday, Aug. 23—a playful little diversion until the grownup version returns. Cow video of the week. Or, well, actually, this happened two years ago, but do cows on the lam ever get old? This was caught by a driver behind a truck pulling a trailer-full of cows in downtown Middlebury just after its doors opened and about a dozen cows lit out for the territory.Meanwhile: Chicken lips. "Why someone decided to name a small green mushroom after a part of bird anatomy that does not exist is one of life’s great mysteries," writes Northern Woodlands' Elise Tillinghast. It's the third week of August, and out there on the forest floor you can find these weird green blobs, Leotia viscosa, also known as chicken lips. Also: red trillium, false solomon's seal, monarch butterflies... and a great shot of a barred owl.Synchronized floating. So let's say you could hold an Olympics in zero gravity. What would it look like? We just got a taste as the astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station split into two teams... The Guardian has the video.
It's hard to describe The Hu—Mongolian folk metal rock?—but whatever, they're huge back home and in the West. The band formed in 2016, its four key members coming out of the Mongolian State Music and Dance Conservatory in Ulaanbaatar after studying classical, jazz, rock, traditional Mongolian music, throat singing (which they'd been doing all their lives) and listening to a lot of Metallica and System of a Down. To start the morning right, here's a beautiful acoustic piece on traditional instruments, "Shireg, Shireg."
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