CALIFORNIA

A little over a week in California divided between Santa Barbara and Corona del Mar.  Really nice.

CLARYVILLE, NEW YORK

We learned last summer that NYC is a HOT place in the summer.  To tell the truth, it's been hot but not as bad as last year.  Because of the heat, people and we try to leave and go to cooler climes for a few days.

We just spent three days in Claryville at the Godici farm house in the Catskills.  Two of our meals were fund raisers; one for the Neversink Farms and one for the Claryville Volunteer Fire Department.

The Neversink Farms attracted "No Fracking" Earth People.  Everything we ate was organic and grown and prepared in neighboring farms.  Good food.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also ate at home where the food was best of all.  A friend named Joe sent us some bacon and I mention him in this video.

 

 

 

Two days from now we head to California for several days in Santa Barbara and then a few days in Corona Del Mar.  Upon return from California two short trips; one to Fire Island and one to the Jersey Shore. We're just trying to keep things cool! 

 

 

Here's a bonus video I took the day before we left for Claryville.  It'll take your breath away.

 



Ardmore, Oklahoma

A 3.5 day trip to Ardmore, Oklahoma to conduct a survey there.  Got chicken fried steak and barbecue.

LINCOLN CENTER & FIREWORKS SHOW

Avery Fisher Hall
New York Philharmonic - Star-Spangled Celebration


"The powerhouse combination of the Philharmonic and “The Commandant’s Own” celebrate America’s birthday with this spectacular display of musical fireworks."

The power of the Marine Corps Drum & Bugle Corps with the New York Philhramonic was overwhelming.


The Star Spangled Banner - arr. Toscanni
Fanfare for the Common Man - Copland
Strike Up the Band - Gershwin
Clarinet Concerto - Copland
Chester March - Dix
Theme from The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein
Xylophonia - Green
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - Raye
Washington Post March - Sousa
Semper Fidelis - Sousa
Ellis Island - Dix
Armed Forces Suite
Stars and Stripes Forever - Sousa


A Hot Dog from a cart on Columbus Circle, a patriotic concert in Avery Fisher Hall, and fireworks from our building's terrace.  A great Fourth of July.

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Go to the video below and note the remarks at 3:33.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opWoqB00rXQ

A man at Columbus Circle wanting to lose his independence on Independence Day!

My all-American Ha

lal Hot Dog.

Any American with a sense of patriotism would have had a glistening eye and a tightening throat during this concert.

 

Then to the terrace on our building for the fireworks shows of New Jersey and the City of New York.  All the time the Empire State Building was in dynamic patriotic colors.

 

 

 

 



LINCOLN CENTER

Metropolitan Opera House
American Ballet Theater

Shakespeare Celebration - American Ballet Theatre

Approximate running time 2 hrs. 0 min.

ABT celebrates the Bard's 450th birthday with a magical double bill featuring Ashton's spellbinding The Dream, inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the meditation on romance, revenge and redemption, The Tempest, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky.

Composers: Felix Mendelssohn, Jean Sibelius 
Choreography: Frederick Ashton,Alexei Ratmansky