Flat Footing also Aly Bain playing second fiddle
Tennessee Walking Step Soldiers Joy played on the mandolin
Talking Feet — Buck dancing and Clogging
Clogging to Cumberland Gap
Tamara Loewenthal clogs to the tune Cumberland Gap, played by Jamie Gans
May 18 — Blue-Grass style Clogging
Blue Grass style Clogging
Spank the Planks Appalachian Dance Team
A moment of cinema history
There is always something magical about going to a cinema in a foreign land. Never did I feel that more than on a hot and balmy August night in the mid 1970’s when I first saw the film “Zorba the Greek” Now, I am not in the habit of seeing a movie when on holiday but I couldn’t resist the little open air cinema in the town of Heraklion on the Greek Island of Crete.
Zorba in Crete .... in the 70s. Wonderful.
Video: Can Music Heal Your Pet?
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast. But how about for pets? Veterinarians are using music to help soothe sick patients.
Music can create direct music to music contact between musical participants. A supra-linguistic contact. The choices of music for critters needs to be very careful as some tones and rhythms can be painful or harmful to animals, just as they can be to humans. Some have meaning to animals as part of their communication methods, as well. Frequency is an interesting medium
May 18
I heard the first Whip-poor-Will last night,
As I hung my laundry by the half-moon light.
Trouble in Monsanto Nation
Reliable sources in Washington D.C. have informed the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) that Monsanto has begun secretly lobbying its Congressional allies to attach one or more “Monsanto Riders” or amendments to the 2013 Farm Bill that would preempt or prohibit states from requiring labels on genetically engineered (GE) foods.
In response to this blatant violation of states’ rights to legislate, and consumers’ right to know, the OCA and a nationwide alliance have launched a petition to put every member of Congress on notice: If you support any Farm Bill amendment that would nullify states’ rights to label genetically modified organisms (
May 25
Still Life
This quiet window sits in the wall of a storeroom in an ancient farmhouse in Devon.
Generations of spiders and other insects have made this frame their home. The dusty bottles have faded over the years; they have grown dryer than any imaginable desert. Creepers and weeds have sprouted, grown and died against this brittle glass.
Only weeks ago, snow was piled up against the panes, arriving after the lashing of November rain and before that; high summer had brightened its aspect.
