Emily Dickinson, Amherst

Tagged along to visit Emily's house...3rd drawing is Emily's tree (so we were informed), a huge oak. Freaky--the guide passed out poems to read aloud and Doug's was the Madness in Spring that I use as a signature....

Planning next bog trip -- this one was WAY too brief! Looking around for the coolest uniquest bogs/marshes in Maine... http://web.tampabay.rr.com/bog/

moose and spruce

moose and spruce,loons, otters, rose pogonia, Great Northern Paper, helleborine galore and we learn it is an invasive, waves and wind, floating bogs, Graveyard Point, homemade rootbeer, marsh St. John's wort, some kinda pyrolla...smartweed floats like sweet pink candy on the water as we stroke bythunder in the distance and here is hummous, dates, and dill pickles to eat, chocolate with a love poem from Dante read aloud under cedar, spruce and firwooden and canvas canoes, a paddle carved by an Alexandra...biscuits, woodsmoke and rain....we have loved our journey with old and new, watery and true, trails winding round and round between labrador and missoula North Woods Ways, Willimantic, Maine

yellow tick trefoil and yarrow, Queen-anne's lace, pink sweet pea, orange day lilies, golden rod, pink crown vetch, white asters.....Bastillle Day....Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco on the barn. cracked in two album cd found in a grassy field under trees, sky:"I've often tried to hold the sea, the sun, the fields, the tide" by Awake the Best of Live

colors are us!

colours are us!!
colours are us this week !!

lest one forget after the storm

American Routes--"After the Storm" http://www.amroutes.com/
"Minor Tipitina" Allen Toussaint American Routes recording---
"Louisiana 1927"
Randy Newman 2:54 Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 (Nonesuch)
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" Mahalia Jackson 3:48 Essential Mahalia Jackson (Sony)---

"Down by the Riverside" Snooks Eaglin 2:39 Country Boy in New Orleans (Arhoolie)
“When the Levee Breaks”—Memphis Minnie 3:10 Memphis Minnie: Queen of the Blues (Columbia) ---

"It's Raining" Irma Thomas 2:08 Sweet Soul Queen of New Orleans: The Irma Thomas Collection (Razor & Tie)
"Rainin' in My Heart" Slim Harpo 2:34 Raining in My Heart (Excello)---zipper:
“Mes Enfants/My Children” Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys Happytown (Rounder)---SEGMENT: Dave Spizale, KRVS gen. manager, interview ---
"River's Gonna Go" Gator Beat 3:02 River's Gonna Go (Globe)

"Higher Ground" Stevie Wonder 3:07 Innervisions (Motown)---

"To the River" Smiley Lewis 2:15 Shame, Shame, Shame (Bear Family)

"Rivers of Babylon" Melodians 4:16 The Harder They Come (Island)---zipper:

“Dear Old Southland” Dr. John N’Awlinz Dis Dat or D’udda (Blue Note)---

“The Lost Souls (Of Southern Louisiana)” Dirty Dozen Brass Band 14:24Open Up: Whatcha Gonna Do For the Rest of Your Life (Columbia) ---

"Minor Tipitina" Allen Toussaint American Routes recording

“Blue Horizon” Sidney Bechet 4:25 Blue Horizon: The Sidney Bechet Story (Proper) ---

“Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?" Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven 2:58 Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol’ Box of New Orleans (Shout Factory)---

“Back Water Blues” Bessie Smith 3:18 The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3 (Columbia/Legacy)

“Stormy Weather” Phil Phillips 2:34 Eddie’s House of Hits: The Story of Goldband Records (Ace)"Louisiana" Percy Mayfield 2:04 Creole Kings of New Orleans (Specialty) ---zipper:

“L’Ouragon" Beausoleil La Danse de la Vie (Rhino)---

“L’annee de cinquante sept” Alex Broussard 2:41The Best of La Louisiane Records (La Louisiane)

“Grand Chenier” Bluerunners 2:49 Le Grand Bleu (Louisiana Red Hot Records)

“Hurricane” Bobby and the Rockers 3:25 Can’t Stop Rockin’ (Bobby and the Rockers)---

"The Lakes of the Ponchartrain" Jim Smoak & the Louisiana Honeydrippers 2:26Bayou Bluegrass (Arhoolie)“Box of Rain” Grateful Dead 5:16 American Beauty (Warner Brothers)zipper:

“Blues in My Sleep” James Cotton Deep in the Blues (Verve) ---

“Hurricanes Carla & Esther” Lightnin’ Hopkins 5:06 Po’ Lightnin’ (Arhoolie)

"Born on the Bayou" Creedence Clearwater Revival 5:00 Bayou Country (Fantasy)---

“Death Letter” Cassandra Wilson 4:12 New Moon Daughter (Blue Note)

“When the Saints Go Marching In” Helen Humes 4:05 2005 Southern Music CD (Oxford American)---

“Walking to New Orleans” Fats Domino 1:58 The Best of Fats Domino (EMI)

"Louisiana 1927" Randy Newman 3:02 Good Old Boys (Warner Bros.)---

"Down by the Riverside" Sam Morgan’s Jazz BandOscar

“Papa” Celestin and Sam Morgan Recorded in New Orleans, 1925-1928 (Jazz Oracle)
http://www.amroutes.com/

Fats Domino Lyrics - Walking To New Orleans Lyrics
Walkin' to New OrleansFats Domino United Artists XW 007 "The Silver Spotlight Series"(Domino/Bartholomew/Guidry) Travis Music Co. BMI

It's time I'm walkin' to New Orleans
I'm walkin' to New Orleans
I'm going to need two pair of shoes
When I get through walkin' to you
When I get back to New Orleans
I've got my suitcase in my hand
Now, ain't that a shame
I'm leavin' here today
Yes, I'm goin' back home to stay
Yes, I'm walkin' to New Orleans
You used to be my honey
Till you spent all my money
No use for you to cry
I'll see you bye and bye
Cause I'm walkin' to New Orleans
I've got no time for talkin'
I've got to keep on walkin'
New Orleans is my home
That's the reason why I'm goin'
Yes, I'm walkin' to New Orleans
FADE:I'm walkin' to New Orleans
I'm walkin' to New Orleans
I'm walkin' to New Orleans
Transcribed by Little John
These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording referenced above, and are for personal use and research interest only. http://www.lyricsdownload.com/fats-domino-walking-to-new-orleans-lyrics.html

Avocado pits – sprouting them for growing into trees

It’s a type of laurel tree, Laurocea family

Method 1: Lay it by itself in a warm dry place for a day, so that the brown skin dries & cracks. Plant the pit 2/3 under soil, 1/3 above soil, in a small pot, and moisten the soil.

Method 2: It will sprout quickly if one cuts several deep incisions in the top and bottom of the pit with a sharp knife.
Hint: The large end is the top!!

Method 3: Invert a glass over pit. Or put the pot in a bag with some holes. You want air going into the soil.
Spray soil surface with warm H2O daily.
Sprouts in 3—15 weeks. Hint: note the pit’s start date on the container and don’t give up on it/them!
After it sprouts you cover the pit.
Put in light & sunny place. Because the root dries out you should use an outer pot. Spray leaves daily with warm water.

Top it early--- at 10 inches--- cut off 3 inches from the top. Trim new shoots a little.
Keep soil humid all year; fertilize in warm months. Blooms in several years.

Method 4: You can also sprout shoots & roots like you would a sweet potato, i.e. make holes for the 4 or 5 toothpicks and suspend the pit so that half of it is submerged in H2O in a clear glass jar. When the first shoot appears, plant the pit.