On Saturday, December 14, my family went to Severance Hall to see the Orchestra. Or more precisely, to see a very small subset of the orchestra - a brass quintet along with a guest vocalist. The occasion was another "Music Explorers" session similar to the one Birdie & I went to in April. This time it was subtitled "Holiday Brass ( Read more... )

The Cleveland Museum of Art has been doing the City Stages for at least a decade now. This series has usually involved free world music on Wednesdays in July outdoors at Transformer Station. My radio station has livestreamed most of them. I've gone sporadically over the years, but this year I figured that at Birdie's age, a free outdoor concert ( Read more... )

Our daffodils have been in bloom for several weeks. Some of these are in neat lines in a flower bed outside the fence. Those daffodils were planted by M a few years ago and are the variant featuring a white flower with a yellow core. We also have some bright solid yellow daffodils that are randomly in the middle of our yard. These have been coming ( Read more... )

Our last week in Los Alamos seemed jam packed with activities compared to our first two weeks.

Monday, September 12

Bandolier National Monument is very close to Los Alamos and White Rock, adjoining Valles Caldera National Preserve. M had been there on her previous visit and wanted to go back, so off we went to the main visitor's center, which is ( Read more... )

I'm the weirdo who both gets paper magazines AND reads them. Right now I'm getting both Eating Well and Smithsonian, both gifts of my mother. I also get the member magazines for both the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Orchestra. The latter is a bit odd because I'm not actually a subscriber for the orchestra at the moment, although I have ( Read more... )

Yesterday's post about my recent photo-a-day habit was not up for twenty minutes before I remembered that I'd actually done something similar to a photo-a-day activity very early in the pandemic. In fact, it started the day after my last day in the office and continued for 113 straight days ( Read more... )

Way back when I bought my bike, my friend Tony said "the best bike is the one you actually ride." Cameras, it turns out, are similar, in that the best camera is the one you actually have when you want to take a photo. I'd bought a good camera for my European sabbatical in 2015 and it was great, but after that trip I rarely took it with me unless I ( Read more... )

It took me about 16 months, but it's time to do a data dump from the trip M and I took to Washington, DC last summer. As mentioned in the food summary for the trip, we were gone from July 2 through July 7, 2019. The excuse for the trip was seeing the Rolling Stones live in concert. What else did we do with the trip besides eat and see rock & roll? ( Read more... )

Over the past weekend, my sister and I went to Oklahoma City, which means that she's officially off the hook for not letting us stop there back in 2008 when we drove cross-country. I had floated the idea of a siblings weekend over New Year's when I visited her (and coincidentally when I knocked out Alabama), and from there choosing a state neither ( Read more... )

Since my last post I went to two baseball games as well as Chicago, which delayed my prior post enough that this one covers more days than any other summary to date. It also adds a lot of restaurants.

Friday, May 17 - We went to the Orchestra to see my friend Dashon perform. For comparatively late night eats, we stopped in at Woodstock BBQ. The ( Read more... )