Winter’s Moon Metal: Lirycs by Timothy Price. Music and Vocals by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene.
This is the Metal version of the song I made with electric guitar, bass, and percussion instead of piano and acoustic guitar. The vocals and melody are the same as the version of Winter’s Moon I posted yesterday with piano and acoustic guitar. The Metal backing track really affects the mood and feeling of the song.
Winter’s Wolf Moon Rising
Winter’s Moon: Lirycs by Timothy Price. Music and Vocals by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene.
The song for this year’s Winter Wolf Moon is very special because Teagan came up with the melody and music using my lyrics. In the past, I wrote the lyrics and music for the songs that Teagan sang for me. Teagan had to learn the melody before she would record her vocals for me to mix into the song.
I wrote the lyrics for Winter’s Moon in early November 2024 and sent them to Teagan to review. She was inspired and came up with the melody and played the piano as she sang. I added acoustic guitar to the song, and we used NightCafe to produce images based on the lyrics and music.
Then I made two more versions of the song by adding electric guitar, bass, and percussion for a Metal version of the song, and then I made a version with only acoustic and bass guitar. I will post those videos later.
This has been a really great collaboration, and I am so impressed by the melody and music that Teagan produced for the song. I am also grateful that Teagan is willing to work with me on music.
Happy Winter Wolf Moon!
You can see Teagan’s companion post at https://teagansbooks.com/2025/01/13/music-collaboration-tim-price-the-rise-of-mnemosyne-part-1/
Dawn
Sasha Sphynxing
Smoking
Spunk: “Prepare to die! You stupid, pathetic, putrid, peabrained paparazzo!”
Paparazzo: “Who will feed you if you murder il paparazzo?”
Spunk: “Good point. I guess you’re feeling lucky, punk!”
A snow downpour
The clouds looks as frozen as the ground this morning.
The cranes were hanging in the strong winds while landing tonight.
Gwendolyn
Fuzzy moon
Sunset
Dawn
pTerodactyl in the clearwater ditch
pTerodactyl in the Rio Grande
Can you see the pTerodactyl?
Two cranes landing
Tangle Heart Tree
Moon and Jupiter over Resa’s Tree
I started working on a post almost two hours ago. I was having trouble moving photos around. I tested my Internet speed, and while the download speed was normal for WiFi at 750 Mbps, my upload speed, which is normally 40 Mbps, was only 0.22 Mbps. I restarted my modem, but that didn’t help. I went to the troubleshooting bot, and it only tests download speeds, but after 30 minutes of doing whatever it does, the bot said it found some problems with my configuration, but couldn’t fix them and gave up.
I got back on and finally got on a live chat with Pryia after 15 minutes of typing “Chat with live person,” “Live chat,” “Real person” between the bot asking if I wanted to change my question. I told Pryia my problem, she tested my modem and said she had to reprovision my modem, add some new features to my service, and it would only cost me $10 a month more than I pay now. I said no, and she typed “let me explain for you…” I tried to explain why she needed to reprovision my modem and increase my monthly bill. I said no, again, and that I would check to see if there were any new services in the area I could switch to before I made a decision that would increase the monthly bill of my current service. Then I typed, “In the meantime, you need to fix my upload speed!”
She said she understood, changed her tone of writing, and asked how my day was going while she worked on the problem. I told her it was great until my upload speed went to hell and I couldn’t upload photos. In an attempt to appear nicer, she asked how my new year was, how my family was, how work was, etc., with all kinds of smiley and heart emojis. In the end, it took about 30 seconds for her to fix the problem. Why she couldn’t have simply done that from the start instead of giving a bunch of scammy BS trying to increase my monthly payments really pissed me off. After all that, I ran out of steam to post more photos.
Cranes looking up at a low flying cargo jet flying over the river.
Orange Dusk
Early morning stars in the northern sky
On their second day at work, our two new staff members had the exciting task of helping me hang Laurie’s 6×9 foot (183×274 centimeter) painting. There were five staff members involved in the effort. I used L-brackets to secure it on the wall.
I also inherited the 40-inch (101.6 cm) screen on the right from Tristan because she didn’t want to ship it to Germany. I really spread out my spreadsheets on that screen.
Tristan left us a pair of bookshelves and a lot of books, so we put them in a library. I ordered a fireplace since the room is not heated and put it together this afternoon. We are still sorting out Tristan’s books and our books for the library. Since the top shelves on each side are a little over 8 feet high, we will eventually get a library ladder to access the top shelves. Our new library is cosy.
Loki
Splish splash Beaker taking a bath
Jupiter, the Pleiades, and Orion
Off Center & Not Even 