Drum line
Musical Monday… maybe
I’m not sure Musical Monday will actually become a thing, but while I contemplate the possibility, here’s a great video I just discovered with music by the great Mark Knopfler and featuring a couple of my favorite cartoon characters. Enjoy!
Genda Phool
One of my favorite WordPress travel and nature blogs is Enchanted Forests, written by Mukul Chand; and ever since I first read his post titled Auspicious Marigolds, I can’t help thinking of this song whenever I happen to see one of these beautiful little golden flowers, known as in Hindi as Genda.
Here’s that rainy (or cloudy) day
Unlike the East Coast of the US, this week in California we’ve had sun, clouds, and a little bit of rain — actually very mild weather for January. I’m always a little happy to see grey weather since it’s better for photography — and these flowers are a good example of that. My neighbor’s pink and yellow/orange roses are completely irresistible, […]
Once grand
Merry Christmas Eve!
On this mostly grey and chilly Christmas Eve, I spent my afternoon drinking mugs of hot tea and rewatching a collection of videos from my favorite childhood Christmas specials — Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the 1966 animated version with Boris Karloff). I finished off by watching “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” because I’ve always adored the Peanuts characters created by Charles Schulz, and the accompanying music by Vince Guaraldi never fails to make me smile. As much as I enjoyed reliving my childhood memories with the other three Christmas specials, this is the one that captures the true spirit of the season best for me. Maybe you’ll enjoy watching it too. https://dailymotion.com/video/x2cgz0g
My walking stick
It’s a very odd feeling to look down in the dirt and spot a long yellow weed casually making its way across your path. As soon as I realized I was looking at a stick insect (Phasmatodea), I knelt down with my camera. Unfortunately, this was the best I could do, since he had no interest whatsoever in posing for […]
Two-man band
The Adventure Continues… Mariachi
I’ve had a fondness for mariachi music ever since my trips to Mexico back in the 1960s and 1970s. This episode of California’s Gold is one that I managed to miss on television, so I’m really glad that the Chapman University archives are keeping Huell Howser’s wonderful adventures alive into the future. I hope you enjoy as much as I […]