Seen in Portland, Maine, July 2024.
Refreshing honesty.
Joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for her #WordlessWednesday.
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It's Monday and it's time for music!
Who are the Music Moves Me bloggers? We are a group of music loving bloggers who blog about music each Sunday or Monday (or even later in the week). If you have music to share with us, you are most welcome to join! We are brought to you by Cathy of Curious as a Cathy, Stacy of Stacy's Random Thoughts, Marie (Xmas Dolly), and myself, plus other music loving bloggers.
Why not join us? Here's our optional theme for this week:
"The first sandwich was allegedly made on August 6, 1762, and was given the Lord of Sandwich’s name. The dish consisted of meat placed between two slices of bread, which he requested because he was in the middle of a gambling game and did not want to interrupt it.
This week’s prompt is sandwich. Build a sandwich (acrostic) with your favorite song picks, find song titles, lyrics, or band names with sandwich or items found on a sandwich. This is a lite assignment, the object is to have fun!"
There is a type of sandwich that has many names here in the United States, depending on where you live. It's a sandwich made with a long Italian or Italian style bread, and can contain deli meat, tuna, meatballs, or other sandwich fillings. In New York City, these sandwiches are called hero sandwiches (at least, that's what we called them in my New York City childhood.) Just north of New York City, where my spouse grew up, they are called wedges. In New England, grinders. Others call them hoagies. Much of the country now calls them subs.
I'm going to go in a different direction for my first four songs. These are songs mentioning the names of these sandwiches, although they aren't written about them.
Hoagies (a commercial) for a maker of deli meat and cheeses. You'll see what the sandwich looks like, and the song is...well, listen to it.
A live performance of Heroes - David Bowie.
We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) - Tina Turner, released in 1985 as the theme song for the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Turning to subs:Yellow Submarine - The Beatles, originally released in 1966.
For grinders, Judas Priest and Grinder, from 1980.
And that's a wrap!
Join me again next week for another episode of Music Moves Me.
Today, I am digging into the near past archives for this milkweed photo.
Although this doesn't have shadows, I wanted to share it with you today because it is important.
I wasn't able to get close to this monarch butterfly so it isn't the best quality but it is the only one I've seen this year. I took this picture July 26 and cropped it as much as I dared.
I can only hope there are more butterflies out there. I see fewer and fewer butterflies each year. My small yard can't support milkweed, but milkweed is so important to them. If you do want to plant milkweed, you may be interested in knowing that some types of milkweed grown in warm areas can be dangerous to monarch butterfly migration.
Joining Lisa at This and That: A Blog for her #ShadowshotSunday.
On Wednesday, our area got a lot of rain. We broke a rainfall record where I live in the Southern Tier of New York, but it was nothing compared to the Hudson Valley of New York. Our state capitol, Albany, received almost seven inches (17.78 cm) of rain, in two days, and many roads and areas were flooded.
Meanwhile, yesterday, we had intermittent rain showers.
It was interesting, if you faced different directions, the sky looked so different.
Well, the mostly blue sky.
Joining Yogi and other sky watchers for #SkywatchFriday.
For today's Wordless Wednesday, I bring you assorted wildflowers near where I live in New York State.
Finally, my phone identifies this as swamp milkweed.
Joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for her #WordlessWednesday.
It's Monday and it's time for music! I also apologize for the assortment of font sizes. I don't know why this is happening but, not knowing html, I can't seem to fix it. Anyway...
Who are the Music Moves Me bloggers? We are a group of music loving bloggers who blog about music each Sunday or Monday (or even later in the week). If you have music to share with us, you are most welcome to join! We are brought to you by Cathy of Curious as a Cathy, Stacy of Stacy's Random Thoughts, Marie (Xmas Dolly), and myself, plus other music loving bloggers.
Why not join us? Our theme this week is "You Pick". So, sadly, it is time for another induction into Rock and Roll Heaven. Today we celebrate jazz musician Plas Johnson, who passed away July 15 at the age of 94, six days before his 95th birthday. This talented musician played flute, clarinet , tuba, and saxophone. He started out, as a youngster, singing with his father's family music group and, when given a soprano saxophone as a gift from his father (a professional saxophone player) taught himself to play it.
You can find out more about his career, and listen to some of his jazz pieces at this site.
He was perhaps known for his sax sol in 1963's Pink Panther Theme. He performed on several other movie soundtracks and a number of rock songs (some of which I feature below).
Johnson was a session musician for over 20 years. Here are some of the songs you can hear him on.
Help Me Rhonda - Beach Boys, from 1963, with Johnson on tenor saxophone.Some lily shadows from the past week today for your pleasure.
Two of my daylilies, July 19.
A neighborhood lily, July 24.
Joining Lisa at This and That: A Blog for her #ShadowshotSunday.
