Beach Longings

The beach has been on my mind lately. I've been going through photo folders and deleting lots of files to make room for more. I did the beach folder last week. I dreamt of the beach last week and I've been posting beach photos on other blogs. It somehow doesn't scratch the itch. I walked down to the beach a couple of weeks ago and the snow was too deep to get all the way down. There's no money for a southern vacation this year so I'm just going to have to be patient. Spring, then summer, will come when it does and not until then. I must be patient. I'm really looking forward to the warm temperatures we are expecting this week.

Oh Suzannah is a song I grew up with. I believe everyone in my age group would know every word of this old standard. I'm glad it is still being sung today. Here are two versions from recent years - a lovely live version by the wonderful Ruthie Foster and an under two minute version by Mason Jennings. His is more like we would have sung it as kids.

Oh Susannah is also the name of a Canadian singer/songwriter. I had a couple of songs by her in this post from July.

Great Weather For Ducks

The robins are one of the few species happy with the weather on PEI today. It has been raining off and on all day. Thirty thousand wet people are attending an outdoor Arrowsmith concert in Charlottetown and I'm pretty sure a lot of those people are not happy. My son was invited to go with a friend who was coming over from Halifax but that person cancelled because he was coming by motorcycle. Don't blame him there. Who'd want to drive three hours or so over on a bike then stand in the rain for the rest of the day.

I would have liked to spend the day outdoors but since I'm not a duck or a robin, I've been making cd's for different people who are coming to visit. There sure is some great music out there to play with. I realized I had never put any Oh Suzannah up yet. She's a Canadian singer-songwriter who often plays the summer festival circuit. That's where I've seen her though she's also played here in Ch'town. I first heard her on radio a few years previously to seeing her as CBC was playing her quite a bit. Here are two of her songs, Pretty Face and Greyhound Bus.