Happy (Super) Tuesday!
It's cloudy this morning and was 56 F when I left the house at 4:30 a.m.
If it's primary election day in your state, GO VOTE! Participate in democracy and make your voice heard. Polls are open in VA 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
High if an unseasonably warm 74 F this afternoon.
Make it a kind day!
The librarian is a precinct chief today in tge ancient VA Blue Ridge.

The challenge is to choose 20 albums that greatly influenced my taste in music. One album per day, for 20 consecutive days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Unless you ask...)
Day 6

Today's #BigBand #Standard of the day is the Andrew Sisters' version of "Straighten up and fly right" from 1945.
Enjoy the buzzard and the monkey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmjNIq49398

Good Monday afternoon!
I had to teach an 8 a.m. class, so it's a lunchtime weather report today.
Folks, it's partly cloudy and 68 F outside; let's close up shop for a terrific weather day and get out and enjoy it!
Your daily report from the ancient VA Blue Ridge.

#MondayMemory
Gen. George C. Marshall's trip to the Territory of Hawaii to visit Gen. Charles Herron, commander of the U.S. Army in the Pacific, in March 1940.
Learn more about his trip:
https://www.marshallfoundation.org/articles-and-features/being-educated-on-hawaiian-defensive-conditions/
#MarshallFoundationLibrary

Glad we share the day. Hope you are enjoying yours!

The challenge is to choose 20 albums that greatly influenced my taste in music. One album per day, for 20 consecutive days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Unless you ask...)
Day 5

On our day, I can only choose Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" for the #BigBand #Standard.
Such evocative music.
https://youtu.be/rjq1aTLjrOE

#FriedmanFriday
One of the earliest photos of William and #ElizebethSmithFriedman together, spring 1917. William is wearing a sweater & Elizebeth's skirt looks heavier that what she wore in warmer weather.
I love Elizebeth's half-smile!
#MarshallFoundationLibrary

Ugh Leap Year.
Makes me wait 24 more hours for my birthday.
Wait ... I get to be a year younger for one more day ...

At the VA with my hubby. So many older men and women of shuffling steps using canes or in wheelchairs.
Hard to recall that they were once young and fit, rucking 70 lb. packs, driving large wheeled or tracked vehicles, listening for sonar pings, landing planes on ships, or jumping out of planes and helicopters.
Time marches on. The old soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines move a little slower now.

@Hotelcoralessex
Welcome to CoSo! I hope you will soon feel attached to the community here, and enjoy participating.

The challenge is to choose 20 albums that greatly influenced my taste in music. One album per day, for 20 consecutive days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (Unless you ask...)
Day 4

Today's #BigBand #Standard is Duke Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train." Composed in 1939, this 1962 video is a wonderful version.
Ellington, from D.C., now has a performing arts HS named after him that he could not have attended as a teen -- the former Western High (family alma mater).
When taking my son to visit Columbia, we did take the 'A' train and I hummed along ...
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/D6mFGy4g_n8

Good morning, @LlamaMountainStudioArts! The cold wind makes it a good day to be a sheep, or at least wear creations from their wool. Working on a pair of cabled mittens out of lopi.

Good morning! It's your lagniappe weather report on this last day in February.
Still windy, although not roaring like last night. Temps dropped big time -- 64 F yesterday to 25 F this morning, w/ a wind chill in the low teens F. Sunny w/ highs in the 50s F.
It's just getting light, so I can't see if we lost any trees near the house. I am sure there are lots of branches on our long down-the-mountain driveway.
Be extra kind on this extra day.
That's the weather from the ancient VA Blue Ridge.

@CherNohio
Good Leap Day morning!

@yogapaddlerun
Like February needs an extra day. Happy Leap Day!