It’s Labor Day Weekend, and the lackadaisical season we call Summer is now unofficially over. This weekend I put the finishing touches on yet another cover, this time an instrumental called Coast to Coast by The Scorpions, whose two guitarists – Rudolph Schenker and Matthias Jabs – influenced me greatly growing up. This song always [...]
And shouts out to all the Leos out there!
At 3:34 EDST. Unfortunately, those of us in the Northern Hemisphere will miss out. NASA’s eclipse page
Spring is definitely here now. Funny, it seems like just a couple of weeks ago we were shoveling snow and watching the Winter Olympics…. With Spring comes new life, and new music. Right now, National Public Radio is previewing Jeff Beck’s new album, Emotion and Commotion,..in its entirety(!!!). How cool is that?
Took some photos in the Old Dutch Cemetery this morning; light was coming in at the perfect angle to illuminate the brightly-hued leaves. More Halloween-ness!
It’s now summer, today being ‘midsummer,’ the dividing point between Spring and Summer. Due to all the rain, some fire was desperately needed in our household, so, since we lack a fireplace, scones were made. Now things seems a little less damp. Over hill, over dale, Through bush, through briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough [...]
Well, we’re past the midpoint now. Despite the extreme cold, the noticeable lengthening of days brings ah, solace.
The Sun Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone— and how it slides again out of the blackness every morning, on the other side [...]
Spring is definitely here – crocus are exploding out of the ground faster than you can count ‘em. Our garden is showing numerous signs of life just in the past couple of days, as plants shake off their winter sleep and awaken to the sun again. The energy coming up is invigorating, inspiring, motivating, and [...]
Spring is here! And the balance of light and dark is at mid-point – right now, day and night are about equal in length, at twelve hours. Anticlimactic as it is, what with the warm temperatures we’ve experienced this winter, still it thrills one a little to know that soon the ground and trees will [...]