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Monday, December 1, 2008

'39 by Queen---Music Monday





'39 by Queen lyrics

In the year of thirty-nine
Assembled here the volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
The sweetest sight ever seen
And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
That the score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day
Sailed across the milky seas
Ne'er looked back never feared never cried

Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I'll take your hand
In the land that our grand-children knew

In the year of thirty-nine
Came a ship in from the blue
The volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news
Of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weigh
For the earth is old and grey
little darlin' we'll away
But my love this cannot be
Oh so many years have gone
Though i'm older but a year
Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me

Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I'll take your hand
In the land that our grand-children knew

Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
All your letters in the sand
Cannot heal me like your hand
For my life, still ahead, pity me.

And a little bit about the song.



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Sunday, November 30, 2008

A Family Thanksgiving

My brother, his family, and my mother joined my family today for a belated Thanksgiving celebration. I thought I'd share our day with you with this slide show.


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Family Thanksgiving

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Christmas On the Square


The temperature has been in the teens and twenties for most of the past week here. Today the sun came out and warmed things up a bit. It made it up to about 38 degrees, so I decided to go downtown and walk around the courthouse square. It has been decorated for the Christmas season, and I wanted to take pictures of it to share with you here. On the Friday after Thanksgiving, there is always a parade through our town welcoming Santa and the Christmas season to town. Christmas music is piped outdoors over the square every day for those visiting the shops around it.


If you'd like to see some more photos of my town and of the square, click here.

To view other slide shows that I have made, click here.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Winterwood

The internet server for my computer was down off and on today, so it was a bit of a challenge to use the computer.

We had our first real snowfall of the season today too. We didn't get much--- just a dusting. It was enough I had to scrape and brush my windshield and car windows after work tonight before I could drive home. Ice was already forming on the roads. Younger son, of course, is hoping for a school delay in the morning, but I doubt that it will be forthcoming.

I took these pictures of some brown bushes out front wearing little hats of snow on their dried flower heads.


The combination of the snow and woody stems made me think of the title of the song Winterwood by Don McLean, so I am sharing it with you in this post.



The lyrics really have nothing to do with the snow. The image of winter wood, though, which to me means wood with snow on it, brought to mind this song.
The lyrics are printed below the video if you are like me and like to read along with them as you listen.



Words & Music by Don McLean

No-one can take your place with me,
And time has proven that I'm right.
There's no place I'd rather be,
Than at your place for the night.

No time can pass your sight unseen.
No moment steals away unfound.
Lifetime lived in such a dream,
Floats like a feather to the ground.

(Chorus)
And for the first time I've been seeing
The things I'd never notice, without you.
And for the first time I'm discovering
The things I used to treasure, about you.

The birds like leaves on Winterwood,
Sing hopeful songs on dismal days.
They've learned to live life as they should.
They are at peace with nature's ways.

You are as natural as the night,
And all that springs from you is good.
And the children born beneath your light,
Are like the birds on Winterwood.

(Chorus)

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Friday, November 14, 2008

Let Them Eat Cake!!


Wilben has kindly nominated this blog for the "Marie Antoinette A Real Person, A Real Award" blog award. Thank you, Wilben! For a unique blog of clever quotes and sayings, visit his site at Sayings, Quotes, and Adages.

Suzanne has also nominated this blog for this honor. Thank you, Suzanne! Visit Suzanne's blog, Liquid Illuzion for beautiful photos, amazing poetry, music, humor, and more.

When I think of Marie Antoinette, my first thought is the quote, "Let them eat cake," which is attributed to her.

I'm all for that, because I LIKE cake!

To celebrate the fact that I like cake, here is a very random, bizarre video.




"Cake, cake, cake, cake, cake, cake, yeah!" If you end up with that song in your head all day, don't blame me for it. Blame Marie Antoinette!


Now, according to the rules of accepting this award, I am to pass it on to seven more bloggers.

I would like to nominate the following blogs:


Thistledew Farm


Bun Mountain Cottage

Birding In Michigan

Clay Hill Farm

Pear Tree Cottage

It's The Dirt

Spot on Cedar Pond


Should the above bloggers choose to accept this award, here are the rules (if they choose to follow them!).

1. Please put the logo on your blog
2. Place a link to the person from whom you received the award
3. Nominate at least 7 or more blogs
4. Put the links of those blogs on your blog
5. Leave a message on their blogs to tell them

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Music To Soothe Your Soul

I feel in the mood for some soul-soothing music tonight. Enjoy. I won't even make you dance to this one. Just watch and listen. :)

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Going, Going, Gone!

GOING...........(photo below taken a week ago)


GOING...........(photo below taken three days ago)



GONE......(photo below taken today)


The photos above were all taken of the same maple tree in my front yard over the last few days. Once the leaves started falling, they went fairly quickly this year. No need for concern though. The front yard is once again safe for the squirrels


and for the little dogs who want to cross the yard without a fear of drowning in the leaf river.


The river of leaves in the front yard from three days ago

as can be viewed below from looking out my front door.



The river has been raked up into a mountain down in the street out front.


It was already getting dark when I finished Friday night. Since the time change, it gets dark even earlier now. When I raked that day, the sun was shining and the temperature was a gorgeous 70 degrees. Today it is gray outside, the temperature is 36 degrees, and we are getting what the weathermen in these parts like to call a wintry mix. A wintry mix is a combination of rain, freezing rain, drizzle, tiny ice pellets, and snow.

Time to get out your hats and gloves and button up your overcoat, my friends.
Here's a bit of timely advice in song from Captain Kangaroo, whose show I used to watch every weekday when I was a young girl.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Because It's Wednesday!

It's Wednesday, and I feel like dancing. Come on, get out of your chair, and move with me!

Monday, November 3, 2008

Note To Self---It's Monday: Time To Dance!

Well, it's Monday. You knew it had to come around again, didn't you? It always does. Remember, though, just because it is Monday, doesn't mean you can't dance! Here's a little "note"---actually several notes--- to help you remember to dance today.



If you liked this video, you might also enjoy another post I did about Post-It Notes on my other blog. Every day for about a month or so now (according to the statistics I get from Sitemeter), someone in Finland has been coming to visit that particular post on my Smiling With Daisy blog. Whoever he or she is, they visit just that page of my blog and no others. I don't know or understand why this person or persons does this, but it amuses me.

Happy Monday to you all! Don't forget to dance today.