Friday, May 19, 2017

Photo of the Day

Seville, 2013

My Favorite Painting, Today

Gustave Caillebotte, Paris: A Rainy Day 1877

This Week's Playlist & Podcast

I'm a little late in getting this posted this week, but here is the playlist of the last edition of Dr. John's Idiosyncratic History of Rock and Roll, which featured folks and folk-rock from the British Isles.  By clicking here, you can listen to a full recording of the program. 

Colours, Donovan
Primrose Hill, John & Beverley Martyn
One Night Wonder, Meic Stevens
Seven Yellow Gypsies, Shirley Collins
Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave, Dave Mason

Neighbour Neighbour, Davy Graham
Come Wind Come Rain, Vashti Bunyan
Meet Me on the Corner, Lindisfarne
Poor Boy, Nick Drake

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger
Granny Takes a Trip, The Purple Gang
Dear River Thames, Ralph McTell
Flowers of the Forest, Mike Heron

Who Knows Where the Time Goes, Fairport Convention
The Sea, Fotheringay
No More Sad Refrains, Sandy Denny
For Shame of Doing Wrong, Richard & Linda Thompson

Blackwater Side, Bert Jansch
Living By the Water, Anne Briggs
Nobody's Fault But Mine, John Renbourn
Market Song, Pentangle

A Summer Song, Chad & Jeremy
Come Stay With Me, Marianne Faithfull
Man of the World, Fleetwood Mac
Rue, Leonore Drewery

Where Is This Dream of Your Youth, Strawbs
How Come, Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance
All Around My Hat, Steeleye Span

Dirty Old Town, Pogues
A New England, Billy Bragg

Spanish Ladies Melody, Dave Swarbrick, Martin Carthy & Diz Disley

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Photo of the Day

Ben Among the Angels, 2012

Henry

I spent most of the past three days getting to know my new great nephew, Henry Lucas, and naturally taking some pictures.  Here's the first batch (to raise the anticipation for those of you who will meet him next week). Congrats to his dad G and mom Sara (my niece, and already fantastic mother!) on producing such a sweet little guy.










  

Toonerville Thursday


Saturday, May 13, 2017

Photo of the Day

Fountain Fun, Hollywood & Highland 2017

My Favorite Painting, Today

James Jacques Joseph Tissot, Hide and Seek c1877

Bannack Black & White

It's taken me awhile to figure out how to best use my new Sony camera. While I was disappointed in some of the early returns, yesterday I took it along on a trip to Bannack with my friends Nan, Lindy & Jim, and decided to paly around with the settings a bit.  It turns out that it does a great job with black and white, as you can see from these selections (using the camera's built in filter, not converted to monotone in Photoshop).