Tuffy P finished the first of a pair of butterfly mosaics. The first has a familiar pattern…
Here is is in context on our fence, along with a painting Tuffy did for the garden a number of years ago. 
Tuffy P says the next one is going to be irridescent blues.
Garden Walk Buffalo 2015 – over 400 Gardens open to the public for free. We enjoyed gardens of all shapes and sizes. This one is so new. Remember your first few plants in your garden? It starts with one plant – and transforms from there.
more soon…. For additional photos – see posts on Aug 7th and Aug 8, 2015 on this blog!
Here is some old time music for a Sunday morning. Do you know Way Down the Old Plank Road? Uncle Dave Macon’s 1926 recording stayed in our collective folky consciousness thanks to the eccentric experiemental filmmaker Harry Smith, who put together a 6 album collection of American folk music in 1952. Released by Folkways Records, it was called The Anthology of American Folk Music, although today many people just call it the Harry Smith Anthology. This anthology was tremendously influential and became source material for aspiring folkies everywhere.
Way Down the Old Plank Road appeared on Volume 3 Songs (Blue Singing). Uncle Dave did a great job on this tune. I don’t know if he was responsible for writing this one or if it was an old tune even in his day.
The Whiskey Bent Valley Boys describe their music as “hard driving traditional tunes that’ll tickle your innards”. They are featured on numerous videos on the YouTube machine, and I really like their treatment of this tune and numerous others. I hope you like this one as much as I do.
I always think of Hollyhocks as old fashioned farm flowers. I love the way they reach up tall to get their colour up over the other plants in the garden.
Tuffy P loves Queen Anne’s Lace so we’ve been letting it spread by the front porch.
There has been lots of turnaround at the 27th Street Book Box lately. Here’s what it looks like today. Drop by and take a book or two to read or drop a book or two off for others to enjoy.
We shouldn’t be too surprised that Shadow AKA The Old Man would make friends with our young Newf Georgie. After all, Shadow was also great pals with Ellie Mae. Ellie used to lie down and make little whimpering sounds to call Shadow over, and when he arrived, Ellie would give him a face wash.
The Old Man gets face washes from Georgie now as well. Yesterday evening I was watching some television when the Old Man hopped up to say hi. He was soaked from being bathed by Georgie. He likes to rub up against Georgie’s face and last night he even curled up beside his big buddy.
The Old Man has been with us for a long time. He used to run wild – a street cat – when we lived on Blackthorn until he was beaten up pretty bad by some other critter. He had a hole in his neck, which was infected and two of his legs were badly bruised and not operating very well. He showed up at our side door soon after, panhandling. We fed him for a few days but his condition wasn’t improving so we scooped him up and took him to the emergency vet. He got some fluids and some antibiotics and after that he healed up quickly. Of course by that time he had closed the deal and he was our cat.
Shadow used to be an outdoor cat, until not long after we moved to Long Branch. Something bad happened during one of his adventures. He was gone for 3 nights and after he finally returned, he had lost his taste for the outdoors, almost completely. Now, in the nice weather, he will go outside, but just long enough to visit the catnip patch for a little fix. A visit to the catnip patch usually takes about 10 minutes and then he’s right back at the door, ready for a little nap inside.
So….here are Craig Ventresco and Meredeth Axelrod performing Cold Morning Shout…
27th Street 