• Texas Tornados | DP: Wasted Days and Wasted Nights

    The first thing I thought of when I saw the Daily Prompt was Freddie Fender, this song, this band and their performance at Farm Aid 1996 in Columbia, SC. While they didn’t exactly steal the show, they rocked Williams-Bryce Stadium as well as any of the big featured acts; better than some. It was wonderful!


  • The Avett Brothers Perform “Morning Song”

    “Hurt so bad……….You don’t come around here anymore….. Worse than that……….. Nothing’s really helping I’ve been thinking ’bout drinking again” Twenty-one words, that’s all, just twenty-one; words that rank easily in the top one hundred song openings of all time. Within the last three or four weeks, as I listened to more of their music,…


  • “Goin’ Back to Old Kentucky” – Ricky Skaggs

    I first heard Ricky Skaggs in the early 80’s. We lived in D.C. at the time compliments of the US Navy. He just continued to get better over the years. If you like bluegrass music, or not, have a listen to this.     He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into…


  • Land of the Pine

    Sometimes, you only need to walk twenty feet, out into your own back yard, point your camera and snap the shutter. Sometimes, you get a pretty good picture. This picture, in its original form, seemed like a pretty good shot to me. But, I am biased of course. I like experimenting with different effects, though.…


  • Street Song | Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life

    With my humble apologies to the band Stealers Wheel. A little geese and roll for the “Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life.”


  • How I Roll at 4 AM, Kitties 2, and a little Talking Heads

    Too tired and too brain dead to write in my Java-Fueled Journal. Everything I wrote about sleep, or the lack of, still holds true. Once again I’ve been awake all night. The pic is how I roll at 4 AM when I can’t sleep. Cozy, comfortable and warm. I took liberties to fool around with…