A pencil sketch of a photo I took on Tuesday, Jan. 29, while riding with my friend Mary on the way home from seeing the Riverbend Gallery in Marble Falls.
I love to think about the birds gathering before sunset: in large groups and small; on rooftops, tree branches, lamp posts, telephone lines… changes in position, switching from one group to another, mass fly-aways and returns, sometimes a lone bird all on his own, an outcast. Is it all simply gossip?
As they say in “The Music Man” – ‘pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little, cheep, cheep, cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more…’ what a clever little song.
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1 Jo Castillo // Feb 3, 2008 at 9:30 am
This is a great sketch. I like the flow from the curve of the lamp support. Thanks for sharing.
Congratulations on having your exhibit up at Kerbey Lane. Looks good in the photos, will go look in person soon.
2 Regina // Feb 3, 2008 at 10:52 am
Thank you, Jo! As you can see, I’m not brave enough to draw with a pen like you do.
So you are going up to Kerbey Lane? Great!! I’m going up next Thursday with my sister to see how it looks again.
3 leslie // Feb 8, 2008 at 8:16 am
This is a post in which you could have used the word acollisional
I just love that drawing!
And I thought I was the only one who knew that song!
4 Regina // Feb 8, 2008 at 8:30 am
I don’t know the word (acollisional) – egads!!
But I do know every song in “Music Man”. Do you know which two songs in said musical have the same melody?
5 leslie // Feb 8, 2008 at 8:56 am
Wasn’t ‘acollisional’ the word Gene was looking for to describe birds flying together en masse, and not bumping into one another?
And, no, I don’t know the two songs…you must tell!
Now I have 76 Trombones and Right here in River city (that rhymes with P) in my head…aaaggghh!!1
6 Regina // Feb 8, 2008 at 9:04 am
We’ll have to ask Gene on the word – are we supposed to remember those?? I don’t need more stress here, Leslie!
Okay, hum “76 Trombones” real slow…. and you have “Goodnight, My Someone.
Learned this from the dust jacket long ago. (Let’s see those young whippersnappers figure out what a ‘dust jacket’ is!)
(My parents went to see both musicals on stage – The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown – in San Francisco in the early 60’s, and bought the records – so that’s why I know all the songs.)
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