Snips from the Garden

Chili Peppers and Cherry Tomatoes.

Country Music is Universal

Way down south in the Fertile Crescent.
From The Boston Globe, August 23rd, 2006:

Suspicious Device

From The Boston Globe, Tuesday August 15, 2006.

Not much gets past these guys.














It was only a laptop after all.















I feel safer already!

Alfred E. Neuman Playing the Fiddle

More Snips From the Garden

Here's a few more from the garden at the end of July. Cclockwise, Black-Eyed Susan, Queen Anne's Lace, a group scan and Tiger Lily.

Marble's Instruments #3

One of my two main guitars, this one is a ca. 1955-56 Gibson LG-2. I think the LG stands for "little guitar"? It's beat to hell, but it's all honest wear and it has a wonderfully woody sound. Amazing volume for such a small guitar, and it's incredibly light. A low-end Gibson that just delivers. I bought it at a local guitar show a few years back; there were other LG's at the show in better condition, but this one just had the tone.

Snips from the Garden

I was going to call this entry "Specimens from the Garden", but that just seemed so...academic. As always, click on the picture for a larger version.

Marble's Instruments #2

Here's a Vega archtop acoustic of an unknown vintage. My guess is late '40s early '50s, but that's just a guess. The tuning buttons are disolving, so I know that should narrow down the date. Any info is appreciated. Anyhow, the guitar plays great, (it has a real nice neck), but kind of a muted sound. I really should fix those tuners.

My Stove

Here's my 1949 Caloric gas range. It came with the house, and it's the best stove I've ever cooked with. That's a chicken pesto sweet red pepper pizza on the cooling rack. Mmmm...

Marble's Instruments #1

Here's a snapshot of my 1966 Epiphone Serenader 12-string. I bought this guitar from a friend (Hi Bendixl) sometime in the early '70s, although I had lusted for it well before that. It's a wreck; the belly is caved in, there's a big crack in the top, and many of the tuning machines are bent and barely useable. About ten years ago I had a good luthier stableize everything, more or less. Anyhow, the guitar sounds very sweet, plays like a dream, and it's light as a feather. It can be tuned with much patience. I usually tune it to an open "D" to keep the tension a bit lighter. Lightest gauge strings, of course.













The picture on the right shows the color of the wood more accurately.

Fun with Paper

I just finished scanning a batch of hand-made paper for a friend. She bought the paper on a recent trip to Tokyo, and the paper is so cool that I was inspired to create a few pictures. I am not an artist, but I did have some fun!

Some records from my stacks.

Eddie Peabody, Homer and Jethro, Julie Andrews, the Hoosier Hot Shots.