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20 May

The angels sigh…

By Silver Blue

…the little girl cried…

The tears run rings around my eyes.

There’s something about angels that make for good photos. Well, most of the time:

(This was back when I used to decorate the mantle at Christmastide.)

This was from filter manipulation. I have numerous filters that I never use. Perhaps I should look into doing more work with them.

Someone be a dear:

Go help that angel out. She seems to be stuck in a rose bush.

Here’s the mantle as it was decked out in 2004:

Finally:

My Angel Bear. She’s a tree topper, but tends to live her life without that discomfort these days. LOL.

(That’s Icee Bear and Snowflake Bear beside Angel Bear).

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Silver Blue, who sometimes feels like an angel flying too close to the ground.

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08 May

Interlude…

By Silver Blue

….a photo of Roxette Bunny™ and Forester Bear together, before Hurricane Isabel in 2003:

Roxette Bunny™ and Forester Bear on their way home from New Orleans (at the Cincinnati Airport):

At the food court.

Waiting for the plane to arrive….

Flying Delta to get back home.

You know it’s so good to be back home again.

[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/tt-sgtbbha.mp3]

Silver Blue, who reminds you that your family is who you make it to be. Even if it’s plush animals.

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21 Mar

As close to music as I’m ever going to come

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Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I ran an Unofficial Fan Page to former Columbia Recording artist Jane Olivor (who performed the Academy Award nominated song “The Last Time I Felt Like This” with Johnny Mathis from the movie “Same Time, Next Year”.

I first met Ms. Olivor in 1999 at the Birchmere, in Alexandria VA, when she played there for Valentine’s Day. I gushed appreciation and had to sit down before I hyperventilated.

In 2001, I actually was able to have dinner with Ms. Olivor:

In 2002, I was offered the opportunity to become her Web Manager. It was a stunning ride on the merry-go-round, during which time I saw her in concert five or six more times.

The only other photo I have of us together is:

Well, things have a way of changing and we parted ways as “the record company wanted to take over her official page.” (That was the official “request’.) Such is life, and she’s never really had a website since.  Being that close to the machinations of the music industry, however, left the polish quite tarnished. I’ve never looked at “stars” with the same eye again. Fame simply doesn’t impress me. I’ve met my share of performers over the years, from Star Search winner Sam Harris, to Annie Lennox, to Basia, to Roxette … and to me, they’re all human. When they perform, they all have the ability to take my mind away from reality for a short while. But they all bleed red, they all have bills to pay, and they all put their pants on one leg at a time.

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Silver Blue… who isn’t famous for any reason, and as no desire for fame and riches… yet if I know that if I make one person smile, one heart remember, one moment brighter, then I have more fame and riches than the biggest superstar there is.

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15 Mar

A visit from Cat Man Deux

By Silver Blue

Cat Man Deux sits watching over Meditation Corner at the Shenandoah Forester. I encountered him in New Orleans in 2003, adopted him, and brought him home.

He was the closest that I could find to a Silver and Blue Harlequin.

Here he is in front of the “Living Proof Farewell Tour” programme:

He makes sure that nothing bothers me when I am deep in meditation. 🙂

Silver Blue, who sees lightning out the window and wants to get this posted before we possibly lose power and/or internet….

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13 Mar

A long (and long overdue) post about Roxette Bunny™

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Roxette Bunny™ is the cutest, truest, and sky bluest bunny that has ever existed. She hopped into my life in 2003, and made herself right at home. She’s a great travel companion, and being that she recently traveled to Virginia Beach with me, I thought it best to take you back in time… back to Kenton, Ohio, when they were having the “Little Chicago” night in 2003 as a fundraiser to help restore the Hardin County Armory.

My late grandmother (Katie Cottle), my mom’s teacup Chihuahua (“Miette”), and Roxette (in nothing more than a bow! Scandalous!)

Hopping uptown to explore the festivities.

Paying homage to fallen heroes at the Liberty Garden.

Here, Roxette pauses to pose on the steps of the Armory.

Gazing in the windows to see what renovations have taken place (I hope her eyes were better than mine — I couldn’t see through the curtain!)

Lending a paw to the Emergency Crew of the “B-K-P Life Squad”

Inside the Armory, Roxette causes a stir by invading the men’s room!

She took some time out to raise money for scholarships…

…and oversaw the cooking of 100 chickens.

Her eye was caught (as was mine) by the silver and blue computer case in the window….

….and was distracted by looking for carats. (Carrots? Well, DIAMONDS are a girl’s (and bunny’s) best friend. LOL)

Hopping to the Arcade in search of Family Fun.

Reading about the history of the courthouse.

In front of the courthouse. A Grand Old Building.

Here, we find Roxette eying the goods at Kenton Surplus.

All that Hopping gives tiny blue bunnies a great thirst!

Roxette wanted to catch a film (Showing? Spy Kids 3D, Tomb Raider 2, and Pirates of the Carribean).

Unfortunately, she couldn’t get someone IN the ticket booth to sell her a ticket.

So, she looks at a historic site (now a parking lot) and comments on how it would be a LONG way down.

Deciding what flowers to send Grandma. The building behind her used to be a laundromat and the Wards store in town.

Roxette proves that even small blue bunnies, when they pop out of the mailbox, can startle the mailman.

Even bunnies like to have fun, and sliding down the banister is just the thing!

Roxette was to go to New Orleans with me, to Florida, Nags Head, and other places… so you may see those photos at some point in the future.

[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/ls-aatw.mp3]

Silver Blue, who remains young at heart, thanks to a small blue piece of plush, affectionately known as Roxette Bunny™

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03 Mar

The Calm Before The Storm

By Silver Blue

The year: 2003 The month: September. The day: 18th.

The Hurricane? Isabel.

The radar?

(This photo NOT taken by me, obviously)

Isabel, as she approached North Carolina.

The day before, however, all was calm, all was… bright.

and then the clouds started up…

and increased in volume…

Then, as night fell, we had no clue…

That what was being classified as a “minor” hurricane to hit Hampton Roads (some say a weak Category 1, some a regular, some a weak Category 2 depending on where and when you were hit) would leave us without power for 12 days, without a furnace or hot water for 3 months (due to the basement taking in 5.5 feet of water back through the sump well, destroying the furnace and hot water heater), and without a “complete” roof for 7 months.

Still, Mother Nature has a way of showing that life goes on… just four days after the wrath of Hurricane Isabel…

“Look, Rhett. The Magnolias are in bloom.” (Margaret Mitchell)

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Silver Blue, who wonders if the weather would be as wonky … if humans weren’t on this planet.

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23 Feb

Just a couple days late…

By Silver Blue

But…

Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!

From my trip to New Orleans in 2003:

The Jackson Brewery, just before a massive thunderstorm.

I loved the saturation of colours and tones in this photo:

It has not been manipulated in any way other than to size down for placing on the web.

This photo also appears in my photo biography. Its a busy photo, but other than the tourists in the bottom right corner, I can’t think of anything I could have removed in order to simplify the picture.

[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/hotrs.mp3]

Silver Blue, who gave up Lent for Lent.

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10 Feb

A/C? No… D.C.

By Silver Blue

From a 2002 trip to Washington, D.C.

Outside, I think, the FDR memorial.

The Washington Monument. Taken from this side, you couldn’t see the construction (so much) going on near the base (you can see two cranes to the left of the monument, but that’s minimal compared to whatever they were doing in 2002).

The Jefferson Monument, with Jefferson visible. I liked the framing of this one.

Also from the Jefferson Monument…

Looking back on the Washington Monument.

A timely reminder, with all of our everyday struggles:

Perhaps at no time in our Country’s past was this more evident as when brother fought brother in the War Between the States:

I haven’t made it back up to D.C. to photograph as I’d wished either, and it’s a mere 3 hours up the road. Well, there’s always the spring, or summer… or autumn.

[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/wiria.mp3]

Silver Blue, who really needs to start mapping out destinations without calling it a photographic bucket list.

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