Showing posts with label Arenita Azul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arenita Azul. Show all posts

Saturday, April 12, 2008

April Showers Bring May Flowers


It's been a cool and rainy day. It's spring after all and the weather is very changeable. The old joke about weather in the Maritimes is that if you don't like it, wait five minutes. I don't mind rainy days at all. I've always liked rain and like walking in it if it's not cold. I must say though that nothing depresses me more than extended periods of rainy weather. My brother lives on the west coast (or wet coast as they say) and he gets a tremendous amount of rain. That's not for me.

Saturdays have turned out to be telephone days for me. My mom's cousin calls me from Florida every Saturday as her husband has free long distance to Canada on weekends. I usually talk to my son and grandchildren on Saturday and I have a friend who always calls on Saturday as she has only two days off and spends Sunday with her Mom. I was expecting a friend to call from Ontario but she will probably call tomorrow. That's good because my ear is a bit sore.

It's not sore from music though. If I'm in front of the computer I have music on and never, never tire of it. There is a never-ending supply and that's a bit of a problem. I will never be able to listen to all of it no matter how hard I try; the same with books, I will never read them all. At the moment I'm listening to Lila Downs and of course I plan to share. Most I had uploaded of her has disappeared but there's still the best ever version of Besame Mucho, Cancion Mixteca, Una Sangra, Mi Corazon Me Requerda and La Iguana. The best version of Quizas, Quizas Quizas is still here too but I hadn't linked it properly. It is now. I'm not blue today but the songs I'll add of Lilas have blue in the title. Arenita Azul is a favorite of mine that has disappeared and I did not have Alcoba Azul on the music pages till now. Enjoy Lila Downs! I've linked her new website.

Friday, January 26, 2007

Overwintering



This is the first year a heron has visited the pond all winter. I don't know if they sometimes overwinter here but have never seen one here at my pond at this time of year. I never get a photo because I don't see it until I open the door and it flies off.

I'm missing a women's festival wrap up tonight because of impending weather. We're supposed to get 5 to 10 cm. and it's blowing snow. No thanks for driving back home in that. Too bad though because we always have a marvelous time together.

Music is for that group of women tonight. Ragged Company by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and Arenita Azul by the always wonderful Lila Downs. The last one is for the dancing we like to do when we're together.

My playlists eventually came back on Windows Media player but only after restarting. It's an all new interface and a pain. I wish I'd realized that was going to happen. I wouldn't have changed to the new version.