JANUARY! WE’VE GOT THE WINTER BLUES!
First published Feb 15, 2015 – YouTube
My collaborator, Leslie Martel of swo8 Blues Jazz did the work. She composed the music and wrote the words. She also put the video together. Posted it to YouTube. I think that’s all the work. I merely supplied photographs.
It hasn’t been a memorable winter except for it being mostly warmer than usual with sudden patches of very cold weather. A little snow, a lot of rain. One day it’s springtime warm and the next? Zero and a lot lower than that. You think the climate is changing? Nah.
This video is called Winter Blues, a unique, fun collaboration between me and composer-musician swo8 Blues Jazz.
Cardinal in the snowy branches
Up to the rail having jumped from the tree
Before this longest yet, ironically, shortest (by the length of day) month is finished, I hope to have more winter photographs. It’s not that I love snow. I just want my seasons back where they belong.
Since Leslie ran her copy of this today, I thought I’d run this tomorrow. Wait, this IS tomorrow!
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Categories: #Photography, Marilyn Armstrong, Music, Nature, Seasons, Weather, Winter
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really enjoyed your story photos and jazz music about the winter vortex storm. I will have to try very hard not to complain about our winter after watching that one and all you experienced. I struggle to imagine how a home flooded by broken pipes in that sort of winter could be cleaned and rehabilitated
what a bird the red cardinal is..
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I think we cut that one a few years ago. It was a terrible winter where it just kept snowing. We had more than 10 feet of snow in this country, more in Canada and Maine. We had to have our roof shoveled to keep it from collapsing.
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You do not think of snow as weighing a lot though it is frozen water shows I have no experience of heavy snow falls.
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It depends on how much water is in it. When it is wet, it weighs a ton. If it’s light and fluffy, it hardly weighs anything at all.
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I am learning so much about snow. Your explanation makes me understand how a roof that has coped before can be overwhelmed with the weight and collapse. Thank You.
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Nice work Marilyn.
Leslie xoxo
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And you too 😀
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Again?, only a short while ago, you posted this co-work and we commented on it. Or a blunder? Or has it such a strong reaction on you that you HAVE to repost it once again?
Anyway, the video is great and I LOVED watching and listening (to) it again. It really evokes the best and worst of winter.
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We each post it every winter. We put a lot of work on it. Leslie wrote the music.
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I see…. I saw and listened to it twice in a short while and it’s really a treat for ear and eye. You should do it again with another theme. You are a great team and I’d love to see and hear more of the two of you.
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