And here we are, at the 26th day of 2021’s A to Z Challenge. It’s been a blast to create the daily posts and to read such enjoyable offerings from so many. Thank you for reading about the fabulous Jethro Tull and listening to some of their best tunes, commenting and for making the…
Month: April 2021
Standing with Women Water Protectors, by Barbara Williams — Rise Up Times
“The proposed monstrosity would snake through 200 pristine lakes and rivers in Northern Minnesota including watersheds for the wild rice that is unique to this part of the world and has been intrinsic to the Anishinaabeg/Ojibwe way of life for centuries. A spill could permanently destroy rice beds as well as the fish and wildlife habitat.”…
dVerse — OLN 291 — Spring slimverse series 042821
I’m frilly, perched with my sisters — songs for the bees. Beauty taunts, but beware: she can take your liver. Leaves too grand for compost; stalks so good – yummy pie! Shrinking, I hide in grass but smile for cameras. Note: if you click on the link to the photos it will take you to…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 25 “Year One” (Skating Away on the Ice of a New Day) from War Child (1974)
War Child is their seventh studio album, released in 1974. Much of the music from it was derived from past recording sessions of the band. “Only Solitaire” and “Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day” were left over from the summer 1972 writing sessions for what was to have been the follow-up…
#FF — Lost Respite
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson For twenty-plus years, they’d lived each weekend at the cabin from spring to fall. Social distancing forgotten, they kayaked Duckweed Lake by day and listened to loons calling at dusk from the patio. Mid-October they winterized the place before heading back to Greenville for winter’s prison. It’s April; time to…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 24 X A Passion Play (whole album) (1973)
At first I was going to choose one of their songs that included the letter “x” but I didn’t like either one of them. Then I thought, why not do another bonus entry with the whole “A Passion Play” album? A Passion Play is their sixth studio album, released in July 1973 in both the…
Coronatoons — bluebird of bitterness
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