The opening Clarinet glissando in Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue”, I love – as did and does, United Airlines.
And had me guessing if it was possible with a Trumpet, during last night’s performance by the Cary Ballet Company of “Who Cares”. A Google search assures me, a Trumpet is capable of a glissando.
I made this photograph for a lady who styled my late wife’s hair at home, in Cary, North Carolina. She was a Biker.
Some folks think French folks are effete. Trust me on this, Parisians are WAY tougher on motorcycles than recreational Americans.
The expression in the title above was taught to me by a business acquaintance and ex-mechanic from Seattle during dinner at a restaurant in Westlake, Ohio, that started life as a “Speakeasy”, during Prohibition. But that’s not what this is about. It’s about Ballet.
Tonight,this old heart got an adult dose, vitamin fix, watching incredibly accomplished dancers at the Cary Ballet performance at A J Fletcher Opera Theater in Raleigh. My tear ducts are functional and clear.
Cary Ballet Professional Training Program – Valentina Facal
ADC Studio Preview 25 Jan. 2022 – And don’t it feel good!
Prompted by a delightful conversation today with a 50 year younger neighbor while bringing in groceries. Sunshine modeled her face and I almost went into Portrait Photographer mode. Didn’t. And spared her my latest Old Guy joke.
Cary Ballet Company Spring Gala – Space & Tech Rehearsal – 13 March 2013
News of the day can make sleep, elusive. My remedy is revisiting some favorites, like this one. The digital image is medicine for my analog soul.
And thinking about it, at 3 AM, is part of a currently low priority background task running between my ears, a gestation period for writing a book about the Craft & Art of Photography. I aim to make it my task beginning next fall, and occupy me through the winter.
My immediate and necessarily higher priority program, is transitioning to a sustainable, old widower habitat – sans every Thursday HoA Landscape Contractor Leaf Blowers!
Edgar Degas was an insufferably insistent photographer in his late life. But I’m confident that he would have been flummoxed by this.
Moi, immediately recognized the significance – she was ordering takeout! Dancers need to put fuel in the tank!
I was 100% ignorant of Ballet when I discovered Cary Ballet in 2010.
Deanna Seay, seen above, invited me to just come and watch her classes. And I thought “This is hard – really hard! Baseball and Basketball and Football is easy compared to this.” Then I surfed the Web-O-Sphere about her and discovered how much I didn’t know. She was very kind.
Reading the news, I wish this for young people. Not Hate, Hunger or War.
As I explained to some folks yesterday, some images stay in memory. This is one. This week, on my almost daily walk, I saw the shadow of a large wing span. Looking up, I expected to see a Vulture, properly attending a recently departed neighborhood Squirrel. It was, in glorious surprise, a Great Blue Heron, who with astonishing wingspan, navigated between two houses into the ravine behind that begins Clemmons Educational State Forest . And I wondered how it survived the fertilizer and pesticides of the Golf Course behind it. Like finding a Rose in Snow, despite the Plows and Salt.
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