Monday, June 27, 2011

Weekend and then some....

There needs to be an After-Weekend to allow time for Weekend Recovery. Yikes.

Friday night I dredged up from my long-ago teenage past the vocal jazz skills I was fortunate to learn as a student in Mr. McManus' classes. Although without a nightly dose of diphenhydramine or other such potent anti-allergy med, there is a constant drip-drip on the middle and best range of my vocal chords. Nonetheless, I swung into full "Blackbird" action with piano, and (if I can remember correctly) saxaphone. (It might've been a flute.) Damn, we were swingin'!

Saturday there was Becki's Pie (strawberry-rhubarb, with orange zest in both the crust and the filling) (be still my heart):


And a family of nuthatches cracking black sunflower seeds with tiny beaks:


A container-packed ship slicing the waters of Admiralty Inlet:


Beach and upside-down beach at Fort Warden (it may have just been me that was upside down) --


Finally, a view of what will happen when The Big One (earthquake) strikes Seattle:


I fear we may all be tipped into the Salish Sea (aka Puget Sound).

But now it's time for coffee and a bit of foraging in the kitchen. Apparently the After-Weekend is only a fantasy.

Sigh.

8 comments:

  1. The fact that there is no After-Weekend is the very thing that gives Monday its unique flavor. and Tues-Fri all feel like Friday to me. thanks, sp

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  2. I love your photos -- what app is that or did they just happen? :)

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  3. Poor old thing! Come and join the 'idle poor', where apres-weekends no longer exist. Just slog, slog, slog from one Sunday to another!

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  4. I'm with Cro -- the idle poor!! Weekends have no meaning anymore, except that I tend NOT to go out because too many people are about.

    Gee, T., you are multi-talented -- who knew you could sing and jam? How much fun! I think you and I might have been separated at birth.....

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  5. poetry. t. that was one of the top five rhubarb pies that i ever have made, and i am glad that i made it for you! gregg and i want to have your company more. both of us agreed that we miss you way to much to see you as little as we do. you ALWAYS have a sanctuary in our hut in our little "village" of p.t.

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  6. You are going to have to post video of yourself in jazz mode....and we all want some of that pie.

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  7. T, I have a video of you singing Blackbird. I just don't know how to post. Looks and sounds good.

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  8. fabulous photos! how did you get the effects?

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