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LINEUPS

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It took a bit of sleuthing through photo albums and high school year books, but I managed to find a few photos of men lined up for different events. A few well-dressed gentlemen line up in Yosemite Valley for a photograph with Yosemite’s namesake waterfall behind them in the late 1800s.  My great grandfather, J.K. Smedley, who made the trip to the Valley in 1874 is not among these fellows, but he and his touring compadres did line up for a formal photograph and I imagine it looked something like this one. One of these fellows is my husband’s grandfather, Harry Brasier.  He might be on the far right but I'm not sure.  These were the six who canoed their way through five lakes in Canada in the late 1800s or early 1900s. Harry’s hockey team with Harry sitting 3 rd in from the left. Harry with a group of hockey players - Harry in the second row on the right in the sleeveless black shirt. 1957 - El Cerrito High’s varsity football team.  Back row, far left, is a former bo...
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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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