Once Again Your Face Comes Back to Me

Tab 1 Feature:
21 June 2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Mack Gordon
Polish-American Oscar Winning Lyricist
(21 June 1904 - 1 March 1959)

Ray Eberle & Pat Friday, duet
(1942)
- Serenade in Blue
(Gordon & Warren) 4'54"

~*~

Tab 2 Feature:
21 June 2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Mack Gordon
Polish-American Oscar Winning Lyricist
(21 June 1904 - 1 March 1959)

Ray Eberle, vocalist
(1941)
- At Last
(Gordon & Warren) 3'08"

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North to Alaska (and Back)

I will post some pictures of on a recently concluded summer vacation (came back yesterday, Saturday,20 June) to Alaska on the French registry yacht, L'Austral.

Meanwile, "back at the ranch", the kitchen remodeling project for this summer is still in progress. The new cabinet tree and applicancs are in place. All is needed -am still waiting before and after the Alaska trip -is for the very busy countertop guys to come and install a new quartz "Green Tea" pattern countertop and backsplash.

First Day of Summer, 2015

21 June 2015
2235 Hours PDT Log
Current Temperature and Condition:
70° F | 22° C
Clear

Astronomy:

21 June 2015              Rise:        Set:
Actual Time            5:42 AM PDT  8:28 PM PDT
Civil Twilight         5:11 AM PDT  9:00 PM PDT
Nautical Twilight      4:32 AM PDT  9:39 PM PDT
Astronomical Twilight  3:47 AM PDT 10:23 PM PDT
Moon                  10:45 AM PDT 11:54 PM PDT

Length of Visible Light 15h 48m
Length of Day 14h 46m
Tomorrow will be 0m 1s shorter.

Waning Crescent, 30% of the Moon is Illuminated.

I Am the Self-Consumer of My Woes

Clare, the moment I met you, I swear
I felt as if something, somewhere...
But try as hard as I might do, I don't know why
You get to me in a way I can't describe...

--with apologies to Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Clair"

As the world turns on a new season of "Penny Dreadful", on the 31 May, the first US broadcast of this paranormal horror episode, the Frankenstein creature named John Clare finally revealed to viewers more than a whiter shade of pale. Indeed, in a tête-à-tête with Vanessa Ives, the protagonist of the series, Clare introspectively and aptly recites the first stanza of a poem by the real but dead country poet, John Clare. And Ives, with somber heart, echoes the shared sentiments and completes Clare's recitation. Given Clare and Ives are both tormented souls for very different reasons, each is shackled in a destiny steeped in sad rage barbed by tangling shadow of despair. Dreadful.

Here is the real poet John Clare's poem:


I AM

I am—yet what I am none cares or knows;
My friends forsake me like a memory lost:
I am the self-consumer of my woes—
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes
And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life or joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;
Even the dearest that I loved the best
Are strange—nay, rather, stranger than the rest.

I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below—above the vaulted sky.


The titled episode for this BBC series broadcast on 31 May: "Above the Vaulted Sky"

2015 Spring and Summer Projects

A Newly Lattice Framed Patio
May 2015

Kitchen Remodeling in Progress
New Cupboards and Appliances
May-June 2015

My Words Reach Someone Else's Ear...Heart Strings, Too

3 June 2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Jan Peerce
American operatic tenor
(3 June 1904 - 15 December 1984)

Tab 1 Feature:
Jan Peerce & Jane Powell, duet
(1959)
- I Talk to the Trees
(Lerner & Loewe) 3'15"

~*~

Tab 2 Feature:
3 June 2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Jan Peerce
American operatic tenor
(3 June 1904 - 15 December 1984)

Tab 2 Feature:
Jan Peerce, tenor
(1963)
- Climb Every Mountain
(Rodgers & Hammerstein) 2'56"


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Lyrics to Peerce & Powell's version
of "I Talk to the Trees"

I Talk to the Trees
Broadway Musical: Paint Your Wagon (1951)
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Music: Frederick Loewe

Jan Peerce & Jan Powell, duet version (1959)

/Peerce/:
I talk to the trees
But they don't listen to me
I talk to the stars
But they never hear me

The breeze hasn't time
To stop and hear what I say
I talk to them all in vain

But suddenly my words
Reach someone else's ear
Touch someone else's heart strings, too


/Powell/:
You tell me your dreams
And while I am listening to you
We suddenly see them come true


/Peerce/:
I can see us on an April night
Sipping brandy underneath the stars


/Powell/:
Reading poem in the candlelight
Through the strumming ole guitar


/Peerce/:
I will tell you all the books I read
And the way I met the king of France
Then I sent the servants talked to them
And I asked you for a dance


[Interlude]


/Powell/:
And suddenly a voice
Reach someone else's ear
Touch someone else's heart strings, too


/Peerce & Powell/
I tell you my dreams
  I tell you my dreams
And while you're listening to me
  listening to you
I suddenly see them come out