An illustrated story.
There were mushrooms.
There was monkey grass, AKA Liriope:
My flowering cherry tree has produced inedible fruit:
Crabapples - there are tons of crabapples:
My catalpa tree has somewhat recovered from its partial denuding by Sphinx moth caterpillars:
There were flars:
My grape crop is coming in nicely:
My walnut trees are producing walnuts:
And since I planted the walnuts that those trees grew from these are, in some regard, my grand walnuts.
Then the sun set:
The end.
8 comments:
Pavarotti is brilliant! Thanks for that.
Rancho Deluxe is quite verdant :)
An entirely different different type of tenor, watch Juan Diego Florez up the ante to 18 high Cs.
Sorry to interrupt this lovely post but I got an annoying email from google again today around 12:45 pm ...
“Your AdSense Publisher Policy Violation Report for pub-2395272059720984 on Sep 4, 2018”
From looking at the posts I cannot tell who or what offended google here. I’m assuming it’s just a very sensitive algorithm and not a human person keeping an eye on us.
Just please be aware that just about anything could set it off. Use caution. Common sense. Whatever that means these days.
A+ on Juan's singing, F- on his ability to execute a proper salute - he looks like Tonto scouting for Custer.
Delightful, john, thanks :)
My pleasure. He is young and hasnt yet performed all the required roles to be proclaimed the 21st century's Pavarotti. He could be but perhaps he shouldnt jeopardize his voice singing those kinds of encores.
Theatrical salutes.
Great point, john. It is such a shame Callas abused her voice. She could have been productive for many more years. Did she not realize?
That's such a difficult question. There are times, you know, when there are people – certain people who are blessed, and cursed, with an extraordinary gift, in which the gift is almost greater than the human being. And Callas was one of these people. It was almost as if her wishes, her life, her own happiness were all subservient to this incredible, incredible gift that she was given, this gift that reached out and taught us all – taught us things about music we knew very well, but showed us new things, things we never thought about, new possibilities. I think that's why singers admire her so; I think that's why conductors admire her so; I know that's why I admire her so. And she paid a tremendously difficult and expensive price for this career. I don't think she always understood what she did or why she did. She knew she had a tremendous effect on audiences and on people. But it was not something that she could always live with gracefully or happily. I once said to her, "It must be very enviable to be Maria Callas." And she said, "No, it's a very terrible thing to be Maria Callas, because it's a question of trying to understand something you can never really understand." Because she couldn't explain what she did – it was all done by instinct; it was something, incredibly, embedded deep within her.
-from a 1978 interview with music critic and Callas's friend John Ardoin.
Post a Comment