A long-eared owl was photographed in Sam Smith Park the other day. Check it out at Friends of Sam Smith Park. For those not from these parts, we have two major parks near Long Branch where I live. As you go east, Colonel Sam Smith… Read More
While not as big a sub-genre in Americana as train songs, murder ballads are big just the same. Since I took an interest in folk music in my teens, I’ve been listening to songs about Stack-O-Lee and Franky and Johnny, Pretty Polly and Tom Dooley. … Read More
Spring is here, and intrepid morel hunters everywhere are watchful for those subtle special signs that those strange brain-like mushrooms known as morels are ready to put in their annual appearance. Most people think that morels simply grow from the ground, and unless picked for… Read More
The swarms of midges down by the lake here in Long Branch are spectacular this evening. Those little black bugs are everywhere, and in certain spots, they get into your hair and your ears and your nose and your mouth, and they blow around dramatically… Read More
For tonight’s Daily Dose, let’s go way back to the mid-70s and listen to Bob Dylan from the Rolling Thunder Review. Here are Bob Dylan and Joan Baez singing Never Let me Go If you remember Johnny Ace, that tune might be familiar to you..… Read More
Here are some shots of Memphis and Memphis with Tuffy P I took this afternoon on our outing.
Here are some shots of Ellie Mae we took this afternoon.
Memphis and Ellie Mae enjoyed a swim this afternoon.
The Daily Dose today features the late Beau Jocque performing One Kiss in Austrailia. In the late 1980s Andrus Espre became Beau Jocque and put together his fantastic Zydeco band, The Hi Rollers. Sadly he died young in 1999, but he left us some really… Read More
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