Ready for Summer Vacation

Leaving for the Great Smoky Mountain states on Thursday, 8 June. I should be back on 18 June.

"My heart thrills like the wilding sap to flowers,
And leaps as a swoln brook in summer rain
Past meadows green to the great sea untold.
O month divine, all fresh with falling showers,
Waft, waft from open heaven thy balm for pain,
Life and sweet Earth are young, God grows not old!"

Theodore H. Rand, 1897

Barlow and Rice

Tab 1 Feature:

6 June 2017
A birthday anniversary

Emile-Claire Barlow
Canadian jazz singer
Born: 6 June 1976

Emilie-Claire Barlow, vocal (2007)
"Les Yeux Ouverts" 4:44
(W. Schwandt et al.)

~*~

Tab 2 Feature:

8 June 2017
A birthday anniversary

Tony Rice
American acoustic guitarist
Blugrass and Country
Born: 8 June 1951

Tony Rice, vocal and guitar (1996)
"Fine as Fine Can Be"
(G. Lightfoot)



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In These Sweet June Days

Love and June
Percy Ainsworth
1910

There lives a glory in these sweet June days
Such as I found not in the years gone by,
A kindlier meaning in the unclouded sky,
A tenderer whisper in the woodland ways;
And I have understanding of the lays,
The birds are singing, forasmuch as I
Have learned how love avails to satisfy
A man’s whole heart, and fills his lips with praise.
The morning air is laden with the scent
Of roses; and within my garden grows
A rosebud that shall some day be a rose,
Whose bloom and perfume never shall be spent—
The flower of love: and he who hath it knows
The endless summer of complete content.

2017 iOS Custom Summer Wallpapers

These wallpapers are created on the iPhone 6s by using Apple iOS logical resolutions associated for the iPhone models specified for iPhones 6 and 7 variants. Each wallpaper can be pinched in-or-out, move and scale (i.e. height and width) to suit the user's display preference for the iPhone model.

As always with prospective wallpapers, the user should test the selected image of choice to ensure it is acceptable prior to saving it. Otherwise, hit the cancel button.

Download in one zipped file:

2017 Summer Wallpapers
for all models of the
iPhones 6 and 7 Variants

Hail, Dearest Few!

Memorial Day
Louise Imogen Guiney
1909

O day of roses and regret,
Kissing the old graves of our own!
Not to the slain love's lovely debt
Alone.

But jealous hearts that live and ache,
Remember; and while drums are mute,
Beneath your banners' bright outbreak,
Salute:

And say for us to lessening ranks
That keep the memory and the pride,
On whose thinned hair our tears and thanks
Abide,

Who from their saved Republic pass,
Glad with the Prince of Peace to dwell:
Hail, dearest few! and soon, alas,
Farewell.

A Passion for Alfa Romeo Giulia Starts with Callas

Your passion for an Alfa Romeo Giulia
starts by knowing Callas singing
Bellini's Casta Diva
in the car ad.

Tab 1 Feature:

21 May 2017

Maria Callas, soprano (1961)
"Casta Diva"
(Bellini, Opera "Norma", Act I)

~*~

Tab 2 Feature (now playing):

21 May 2017
You might also like Gallway's rendition of this Bellini piece.

James Gallway, flute (2004)
"Casta Diva"
(Bellini, Opera "Norma", Act I)



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Drawn After You, You Pattern of All Those

Votre âme est un paysage choisi

Arthur Fiedler, conducting
The Boston Pops Orchestra (1958)
- Moonglow and the Theme from 'Picnic'
(Gerorge Duning)

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Clair de la Lune
Paul Verlaine (1869)

Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune,
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.

Bolzoni & Paramor Birthdays

Tab 1 Feature:

15 May 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Giovanni Bolzoni
Italian late classical era composer and violinist
(15 May 1841 - 21 February 1919)

Arthur Fiedler, conducting

The Boston Pops Orchestra (1958)
"Minuet for Strings and Orchestra" 3'44"
(Bolzoni)

~*~

Tab 2 Feature:

15 May 2017
A Birthday Anniversary

Norrie Paramor
British musician, conductor, and etc.
(15 May 1914 - 9 September 1979)

Norrie Paramor, conducting

The Midland Radio Orchestra (1979)
"Petite Fleur" 3'18"
(Bechet)


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And She My Loadstar While I Go and Come

Sonnets Are Full of Love, and This My Tome
by Christina Rossetti

Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome
Has many sonnets: so here now shall be
One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me
To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home,
To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome;
Whose service is my special dignity,
And she my loadstar while I go and come
And so because you love me, and because
I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath
Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honored name:
In you not fourscore years can dim the flame
Of love, whose blessed glow transcends the laws
Of time and change and mortal life and death.