Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Tall Ships
The weather Thursday was hot and windy for the parade of the tall ships. I have a few pictures of ships but I focused more on the event and people.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Moonlight and Roses
Saturday evening we ushered at the Duluth Playhouse for Evita. We recommend the production but regret the acoustics of this venue remain disappointing and detract from enjoyment. For years the bad acoustics have needed expert professional correction.
Sunday evening a few of us went down to the rose garden and then took pizza up to Enger Park to watch the full moon rise. It was quite cold and the moon was obscured by clouds.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Tuesday
This evening was our Dinner Dance.
This morning Don McCowen led 21 of us on a good but fairly difficult hike along Chester Creek.
Yesterday we went to an organ recital and an excellent tour of Hibbing High School.
Read about Hibbing High School.
Read about Hibbing High School.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Holiday Week
We always have a party on the weekend following the Marathon.
Wednesday, we went to Music on the Lawn at Glensheen. We had a good hike Thursday morning in Lester Park led by Bill Delboy. That same evening, we went to a band concert in Two Harbors and then fireworks in Duluth.
. On the shore of the largest lake in the world, the one hundred-and-fifteen-year-old Two Harbors City Band presents weekly concerts in the park. With a small-town charm reminiscent of Grandma Moses primitives, I found myself transported back to a simple, safer time when neighbors adored the unpolished performance of their neighbors. I sensed that band members of all ages were welcomed with little regard to their instrument or performance level. When even a C major scale of slow half-notes might seem a bit ragged, they tackled challenging music and delighted their friendly neighbors of a-couple-of-hundred seated on their folding chairs on the grass in the soft air of twilight. And even this unforgiving critic found delight in sitting close enough to hear the conductor call out measure numbers to the lost ones. I'll go again.
Watch out for us. Biceps curls on stability balls, and we're aching for more -- er, well, at least aching.
Big band, Sentimental Journey, plays a free concert on the lawn to our delight and a couple of hundred others. What could be better than this?
. On the shore of the largest lake in the world, the one hundred-and-fifteen-year-old Two Harbors City Band presents weekly concerts in the park. With a small-town charm reminiscent of Grandma Moses primitives, I found myself transported back to a simple, safer time when neighbors adored the unpolished performance of their neighbors. I sensed that band members of all ages were welcomed with little regard to their instrument or performance level. When even a C major scale of slow half-notes might seem a bit ragged, they tackled challenging music and delighted their friendly neighbors of a-couple-of-hundred seated on their folding chairs on the grass in the soft air of twilight. And even this unforgiving critic found delight in sitting close enough to hear the conductor call out measure numbers to the lost ones. I'll go again.
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