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STROLLING BETWEEN ROWS

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  These female workers are making their way through rows of bombs during WWI.  I can think of more pleasant rows of things for them to make their way through. Like rows of colorful daisies Or a row of hydrangeas in Scotland’s Inverewe Gardens.  I love blue hydrangeas in particular. To make sure hydrangeas produce blue blooms, add coffee grounds to the soil. I don't know where this long row of hydrangeas is, but they're beautiful and so is the surrounding countryside.  A walk along this row would be delightful. They could stroll through rows of shading trees with soft grass underfoot. Or walk along a row of benches in a beautiful park. When ScotSue and I wandered through Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh in early September of 2015 there wasn’t a seat to be had on the benches lining the walkway in this picture. They could make their way through decorated chairs set up for a wedding to find the perfect seat from which to view the proceedings. Or slip between rows of c...
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THE ART OF THE IVORIES

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  Two hundred and fifty-two posts ago I shared a post featuring pianos painted in all sorts of colors and patterns.  This week I ‘m focusing on painted piano keyboards .  Looking at the examples I've included here, I’m wondering if I could play something on them without being distracted?  Might be fun to try, but what should I play?  Not that I could actually play – at least not very well - any of the following except maybe the last one in its simplest form, but if I could . . . ??? Nola/Felix Arndt Slaughter on 10 th Avenue/Rodgers Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2 My Wild Irish Rose/Chauncey Olcott The Minute Waltz/Chopin - unless someone recognizes the tune written in 4/4 time painted on the keys? Rhapsody in Blue/Gershwin The Blue Danube Waltz/Strauss II The Deep Green Sea/Scott Price Maple Leaf Rag/Joplin Falling Leaves/Joseph Kosma Chopsticks Waltz/Euphemia Allen under the pseudonym Arthur de Lulli   ~ ~ ~ Another way of matching the prompt this wee...
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MY WORLD OF SUITCASES

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  My high school graduation gift from my parents was a matched set of luggage because I was headed for a five-week music camp and had nothing to carry all my clothing and etc. in except duffle bags which we’d always used when we went camping in the mountains.  But this music ‘camp’ was being held on a college campus and we were staying in the dorms so duffle bags wouldn’t do it.   The set was beautiful in a black, white, & red tweed vinyl with red satin lining. Ten years later the largest of the set was strapped to the top of my new husband’s car as we set out for his home in northern California the day after our wedding. Twenty-nine years after that, the largest case was serving not only as a clothes carrier, but as a writing desk in my tent when I was camping with my Mom at Lake Tahoe in 1997. Eventually the clasps on the carry-on and train/toiletries case belonging to my original set of luggage broke, so I found this classy duo in a thrift shop to use for week...
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POSING ON ELBOWS

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  Three beautiful grandchildren posing on elbows. The granddaughter from the photo above a few years later.  My youngest daughter at 4 1/2 months. Okay – shoulders, hands, & forearms can count too.  Youngest daughter on top, her older sister beneath her, and their brother under both of them.   Me lifting my head from my shoulders to peek out of a sleeping bag in 1954 My husband's grandfather, Poppy, aka  Henry (Harry) Edgar Brasier  as a young man on a camping trip.  He may not be posing  on his elbows, but an elbow is prominent in the photo, plus he's in a tent.  J :-> La Nightingail Speaking of elbows!  I think I was around 8 or 9 here, but I'm not sure?
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MASTER BEDROOMS

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  In 1982 I, with 7 other chaperones, accompanied a high school students’ history trip back east.  This was Martha Washington’s bedroom at Mount Vernon. Betsy Ross’s bedroom in Philadelphia. Mrs. Alice (husband, Cornelius) Vanderbuilt’s bedroom in “The Breakers” mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. Cornelius Vanderbuilt’s bedroom in The Breakers. Mrs. Alva Vanderbuilt’s bedroom in the “Marble House” mansion in Newport.  She was married to William Kissam Vanderbuilt, son of William Henry Vanderbuilt and Maria Louisa Kissam. Mr. William Kissam Vanderbuilt’s bedroom in “Marble House”. Getting a little more ‘down to earth’ is our master bedroom when we lived in Soulsbyville, Calif.  Like Alice Vanderbuilt’s bedroom in “The Breakers” our bedroom also had a rounded bay with three windows at one end and was rather large at 14 x 24 feet with 10 foot ceilings, but we didn’t have such fine elaborate furnishings to fill it.  Then again, she didn’t have a television in her be...
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