June 7, 2010
One of these things is not like the other
![[IMAGE] llama and cows](/blog/blogpix/llama-and-cows.jpg)
…about the music¿Cómo se llama?
The first time I saw geese gliding along on salt water, I was surprised. I had only thought of them in the context of lakes and the like. The first time I saw deer balancing on the damp rocks of a tide pool, I was surprised. I had only thought of them in the context of grassy meadows and the like. And here, another moment of my surprise, when I first saw a llama hanging out in a field of cows. Those familiar with the island know…
![[IMAGE] llamas and cows](/blog/blogpix/3cows2llamas.jpg)
…that there are actually two llamas on this bucolic property.
Until seeing this, I had only thought of llamas in the context of other llamas and the like.
In South America!
Camelids and Bovines, together in harmony.
Didn’t Rodney King plead, “Can’t we all just getta llama?”
Glenn Buttkus said,
June 8, 2010 @ 5:05 am
And good morning to you, Alex. Love your camelid pics. SJI really is a kind of microcosmic wonderland, enit? Listening to your music this morning, JUST CALL @ 2:14, gave just the right dosage of perk and jazz to my very sunny start on this June day. American Lake is aglow and Mt. Rainier is greeting all who would stare her direction. [My wife has informed me that mountains are She, like boats, ships, cars, trucks, and heavy equipment.] The tone of the tune made me think of a film I screened this weekend for our movie club here in Tacoma, Alan Rudolph’s CHOOSE ME. It had a jazz score, and was a throwback to film noir, and had a lot of Robert Altman long takes and overlapping plot. Your music is so full of imagery, that it often usurps just the mood it evokes. My retirement happens in 2.5 weeks and
I am giddy as a little girl about it.
Lane Savant said,
June 8, 2010 @ 6:48 am
Once, when I was young, I got a long little dogie.
Alex Shapiro said,
June 8, 2010 @ 11:42 pm
Retirement assumes that one is tiring again, Glenn.
In your case, I don’t think so!
🙂