Shelly > May 15, 2009

A New Era for the JETBand

Congratulations to Christopher Bailey, just named Director of  Bands at James E. Taylor High School. 

I would have walked through fire for my high school band directors. Even got busted my senior year by the nurse at my doctor's office for going to flag practice after receiving a mono-diagnosis.  I was supposed to go straight home and go to bed, but I had my priorities in  order.   

"Nothing we have done in the past will ever be good enough again!" was the slogan for the Robert E. Lee Rebel Band, Midland, TX

So . . . in the spirit of Ike Nail, Van Ragsdale . . . and JD Janda (even a tip of the hat to Randy Storie who came along after my time but taught brothers and a son)  -- The tower is yours now, Mr. Bailey.  Build your team and teach our kids to love music for the rest of their lives. You WILL make a  lasting impression.
Shelly > April 17, 2009

What a hugely stormy rainy day.  The rain gauge on the fence overflowed, so we don't know how much water fell on our house, but much of it runs off into the Barker Reservoir in George Bush Park.  

After the skies cleared we took a little drive  through the park to shake off the cabin fever that always seems worse when telephones, internet and cable all go down, disconnecting us from the world.  

"May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down." -- Sara June Parker
Shelly > March 31, 2009

Ran out of Light

So I left before the ball game ended to go home and have dinner with my family.  So glad I turned around on the way to the car. 

"Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever-widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned, and to create something." -- Liz Carpenter
Shelly > January 6, 2000

Brooklyn Sunset

I liked the Christmas decorations and the city in the BG -- even the red stoplight . . .

Now that I've been there, I think I'll have to go back and re-read one of my favorite books from childhood, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."  I read it again a few years ago and found it just as delightful as I did in fourth grade. It's a lovely story  about a little girl growing up with her family in a Brooklyn Tenement around the turn of the century and was a number one best seller among our troops during WWII.  

The city has changed, but its history is still intact.

And finally . . . here is my New York gallery -- Just a chronological memory of a fantastic trip. http://spccreative.smugmug.com/gallery/6979887_CZGD5#446719136_5SRCY
Shelly > More of that brilliant Brooklyn sky
Shelly > The sunset perks up
Shelly > June 19, 2008 

Lying on my back last night watching a storm pass through the palm tree provided some decent images, but not what I went looking for.  

Then I turned my head.  I wasn't looking for this either, but there it was!  

"The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before." -- Samuel Johnson 1709-1784
Shelly > May 6, 2008

Sunset Across A Road

I don't usually do a whole lot of post processing, but did a little dabbling today. I tried cropping out the road too, but then the trees looked like they were about to topple over.
Shelly > November 30, 2007

Day is done -- and so is the month of November.

Straight out of the camera, no pp.  I tried opening the reflection up a little but liked it better the way it was.
May 15, 2009

A New Era for the JETBand

Congratulations to Christopher Bailey, just named Director of Bands at James E. Taylor High School.

I would have walked through fire for my high school band directors. Even got busted my senior year by the nurse at my doctor's office for going to flag practice after receiving a mono-diagnosis. I was supposed to go straight home and go to bed, but I had my priorities in order.

"Nothing we have done in the past will ever be good enough again!" was the slogan for the Robert E. Lee Rebel Band, Midland, TX

So . . . in the spirit of Ike Nail, Van Ragsdale . . . and JD Janda (even a tip of the hat to Randy Storie who came along after my time but taught brothers and a son) -- The tower is yours now, Mr. Bailey. Build your team and teach our kids to love music for the rest of their lives. You WILL make a lasting impression.
Shelly > May 15, 2009

A New Era for the JETBand

Congratulations to Christopher Bailey, just named Director of  Bands at James E. Taylor High School. 

I would have walked through fire for my high school band directors. Even got busted my senior year by the nurse at my doctor's office for going to flag practice after receiving a mono-diagnosis.  I was supposed to go straight home and go to bed, but I had my priorities in  order.   

"Nothing we have done in the past will ever be good enough again!" was the slogan for the Robert E. Lee Rebel Band, Midland, TX

So . . . in the spirit of Ike Nail, Van Ragsdale . . . and JD Janda (even a tip of the hat to Randy Storie who came along after my time but taught brothers and a son)  -- The tower is yours now, Mr. Bailey.  Build your team and teach our kids to love music for the rest of their lives. You WILL make a  lasting impression.
May 15, 2009

A New Era for the JETBand

Congratulations to Christopher Bailey, just named Director of Bands at James E. Taylor High School.

I would have walked through fire for my high school band directors. Even got busted my senior year by the nurse at my doctor's office for going to flag practice after receiving a mono-diagnosis. I was supposed to go straight home and go to bed, but I had my priorities in order.

"Nothing we have done in the past will ever be good enough again!" was the slogan for the Robert E. Lee Rebel Band, Midland, TX

So . . . in the spirit of Ike Nail, Van Ragsdale . . . and JD Janda (even a tip of the hat to Randy Storie who came along after my time but taught brothers and a son) -- The tower is yours now, Mr. Bailey. Build your team and teach our kids to love music for the rest of their lives. You WILL make a lasting impression.
See photo in gallery

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