For this week’s Rhapsody we have the Kaustinen Rhapsody by JPP.
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEUxKLNiZck
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View of Pemaquid Point… Yeah. It’s Purty.
Well I’m back from a lovely eight days of meditating in spruce forests and granite coastlines while spending some wonderful quality time with my folks. I had a great time.
The only regret I have is I came in planning to do a whole lot of projects like catch up on my reading and do a whole lot of watercolors instead, due to the abbreviated schedule I spent most of my time helping my mother with trail maintenance and didn’t even pick up a paint brush until the last day… Heck due to it being so early in the season I didn’t even get my obligatory lobster!
But any way… It was great all that green, the wildlife (I had an addition to my life list seeing four Glossy Ibises on my third day!) starry nights and the silence! Living in a fairly busy city it’s hard to start to describe real silence it’s almost like it’s a physical presence!
Anyway I’m sure I can go on, but the point is after being cramped in a metal tube for eight hours I’m home and back to work. Apologies for the two weeks of blog silence but man it was worth it!
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A very happy 89th Birthday to Mr. Miles Davis. Let us celebrate with the “Birth of the Cool”
It’s funny… By what I’ve come to expect from Miles this feels almost “tame”. Still is good to listen to though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1HK8Rma4Bo
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Have a very happy Memorial Day and please remember what it’s all about.
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Well the first day of Folklife was short. Partially because I was keeping office hours and because of how early Memorial Day is this year. So anyway I got there Sixish and despite of the late start I had a good start surveying the craft booths, listening to some great bands including Joseph Miller & The Bridge City Crooners
and Vaudeville Etiquette and getting a really good start on my sketching.
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I finally got to see the Seattle Art Museum’s Native American art exhibit, Indigenous Beauty, this weekend before it closed and enjoyed it immensely. There was a lot of stuff I was familiar with like a lot of the northwest coastal and pueblo art and others I was genuinely surprised I had never heard of. What especially impressed me was plains tribes clothing… Above is a buffalo leather dress from the Wasco in Oregon, the other one is Lakota. I found myself wondering what kind of price tag on the hours of labor alone… It’s all the more impressive when you realize that checkered pattern is all beadwork.
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