I posted a train tune the other day and that’s dangerous business around here – once I start posting train songs it’s just hard to stop. Here’s Iris DeMent singing The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodger Home. Strange as it may seem, I know there are… Read More
I’ve been familiar with the old time tune Chinquapin Hunting for some time, but I didn’t know what a chinquapin was until I attended Midwest Banjo Camp. I figured it was a critter in the possum family, but no, no, no. A chinquapin tree is… Read More
….although many recount stories of famous train wrecks and engineers and so on. I found a great version of Railroading through the Rocky Mountains – a wonderful fiddle tune – on the YouTube machine. Here are Hopping Jenny. Of course if you’re not into Old… Read More
Posing for a few nano-seconds tonight… and then a cat came by and George took off!
The new mosaic is complete! Here are two shots in different light conditions. Because of the nature of some of the materials used, the bird takes on a slightly different appearance depending on the light and up the position of the viewer in relation to… Read More
This morning, Tuffy P took over this blog to post about garden tour in Oshawa and Whitby. There was a request on the Twitter machine for some shots of our garden here at 27th Street. You asked for it – you got it! Here’s a… Read More
27th Street 