Edward “Eddy” Baker Lincoln …city lilacs release their sweet, wild perfume then bow down, heavy with rain. –by Helen Dunmore, from ‘City Lilacs’, From Abraham’s Journal February,1850 Dreaming three-year-old Eddy’s cough wakes me. My feet can never find their slippers. Padding quickly to his room I notice again it is drafty, no matter how high…
Month: February 2024
#SLS — Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, “Carnegie Hall Concert” (1966)
Buck Owens and His Buckaroos played an historic Carnegie Hall show in 1966, immortalized on a live album. GAB Archive/Redferns (l. – r. Willie Cantu, Tom Brumley, Buck Owens, Don Rich, and Doyle Holly) The sound systems were so lousy back then that the crowd couldn’t hear the music so the clothes had to be…
Walk out back plus 020924
It’s sunny but chilly out there. When I went out to get the mail and fill one of the bird feeders, I decided to talk out back. The top pic shows some of the pinecones on one of the red pines. As the trees grow larger, so do the size of the pine cones. All…
Friday Favorite Feature 25 — バースディ (LIVE at Ebisu Garden Hall, 2022) by Moonriders
Moonriders Here is another song that has grown on me from SRR, where I hope to listen to more of this group. I love the sound effects and the way the singer uses his voice. The song comes from their album, “Live from Ebisu Garden Hall 2022” and was released on 12/27/23. It’s the…
dVerse — MTB — Banking on Seeds
Dewey Decimal Card Catalogue Cabinet Banking On Seeds A-rest on shore of seed bank boxes, We embark upon novel re-purposing. Tiny, local, handwritten manila packets. From springy plants to bountiful falls, Circle closes in reciprocal deposits. Low-key pamphlet pinned on cork, Dinging bell for farmer’s PowerPoint Of step-by-step in saving seeds. Hippy bright in whys…
#MMB 2024 Week 6 — Cake 2fer
Cake For February’s C-D prompt, my choice is to write about a band I’ve written about several times and apparently can’t seem to get enough of: Cake. When my younger son went away to college, he rode with his high school buddy. The buddy loved Cake so my son was force-fed cake for 3 years…
#FF — The Last Blue Whale
PHOTO PROMPT © Peter Abbey The Last Blue Whale Dawn’s boardwalk gate opening brought clumps of gawkers, who walked en masse the hundred steps to Observation Station. Some spoke; most didn’t. It was as if the silent ones were aware of the importance of remembering. Like instinctual clockwork, as a new clump approached, those at…
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