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Overheard for MVB, Mar 15, 2024
Overheard in the Home for Retired Musicians
Though I’m stymied by your crepitus, your embouchure’s divine.
If you don’t have your own tune, would you harmonize with mine?
Your tonality is breathtaking, your rhythm right on beat.
Your syncopation’s perfect. I fear I can’t compete.
As we play, our joints keep time. My knees snap, crackle, pop.
If our music were to lead to love, you’d have to be on top!
For MVB: Heard
Interesting Buildings ?
This house that looks down on La Mosca is rumored to be owned by Gloria Estaban.
Our house on Stilts in the Recwoods
Tree House Art Studio
The “House of Witches,” which once catered to renting rooms to University students, many of whom claimed to experience strange events.
Corn Husk Flowers for Flower of the Day, Mar 14, 2024
Burro’s Tail, for FOTD Mar 13, 2024
For Cee’s FOTD
Numbers Game # 12, Mar 11, 2024
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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #12” Today’s number is 133. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.
This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below.
“Green, Green,” for Sunday Stills, Mar 10, 2024
Open Wings
I buried Little Bird in this planter underneath the yellow flower.
With a stick covered with bird seed hung overhead.
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Roaming in the Gloaming, For the Sunday Whirl Wordle 645
Roaming in the Gloaming
Breathing out a grateful prayer for our hours of roaming,
I take your hand as sun-stained skies fade into the gloaming.
The seeds of stars emerge now, planted one by one
as the hand of evening smudges out the sun.
All our whispered promises made throughout the day—
I wonder what the chances are that they might fade away.
Will this magic that we’ve conjured retain its brilliant light,
or like the glorious sunset, simply fade into the night?
The Sunday Whirl prompts for March 10, 2024 are: wonder stained gloaming emerge prayer hours grateful seeds chances whispered smudge conjuring
“Off Notes” For Fibbing Friday, Mar 8, 2024
My sister Betty started a family tradition by playing a saxophone later handed down to my sister Patti, then me, then my niece Cintra!! It must now be at least 75 years old. I wonder where it is now! I dedicate this piece to Patti and Cintra, who are together now in Arizona.
For Fibbing Friday, the challenge is a supposed musical interlude:
1. What is a French horn? A former Parisian lady of the night who went to school and became a nurse. (French ho RN) I came back and read this a week later and couldn’t figure it out, either, so thought I’d give a clue.)
2. What is a cornet? A very small callus on a toe caused by too much time spent in the marching band.
3. What is a clarinet? ‘S a cream pastry with chocolate frosting served in a small mesh takeout bag.
4. What is a snare drum? ‘S an Eardrum pronounced in a southern accent.
5. What is a viola? An unpleasant one night stand.
6. What is a double bass? A set of conjoined fish.
7. What is the difference between a Concert, Upright or Grand? The first is a musical presentation. The second is a musical position and the third a musical pretension.
8. What is campanology? An impossibility, because there is really nothing to compare to the truly flamboyant!!
9. What is a trombone? It is what the llp bone is connected to.
10. What is timpani? A type of drum made out of a tin frying pan.
For Wednesday Quotes #163: The Inspiring World of Animals
Getting Acquainted
I give up trying to instill any order in this post. Another duck sneaked in.
Neighbors snapped this photo, then called to advise me that Frida had visitors.
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Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”–George Eliot
For Wednesday Quotes #163–The inspiring world of animals.
