Aww…some Monday’s Music Moves Me

Aww…some Monday

It’s late in the season but humming birds have shown up at our feeders the past couple of weeks.

Somehow, you just never think of a humming bird hanging out in a tree, but the love our Red Bud tree that is located only a few feet from the feeders.

Monday’s Music Moves Me

Sometimes a song takes on a life all it’s own. The following song was written by John Denver as a bit of a lament of an entertainer’s life on the road and time spent away from family. However Peter, Paul and Mary recorded the song, during the Vietnam war and it took on a whole new identity as a protest song. When a combat soldier is deployed he/she doesn’t know if they are coming home in a seat or a box. Fortunately, I came home in a seat and only a little worse for wear. Here is Leaving on a Jet Plane.

Aww…some Monday’s Music Moves Me

Aww…some Monday

School days are fast approaching and for some reason a pencil sharpener in a flea market reminded of my school days.

Monday’s Music Moves Me

This is a “Whatever Music Moves You” week at 4M. I am moved by a wide variety of music genres and some days it’s hard to choose which one I want to feature here. I heard a song the other day that I had not heard in years. It prompted me to feature this legendary country artist this week. While Roger Miller wrote and recorded this song originally, Randy Travis recorded the song later and I swear it is a good as the original. Randy didn’t try to create a whole new sound, he just tried to do a classic song justice. Here we go.

Aww…some Monday’s Music Moves Me

This is a Yellow Swallowtail butterfly. I captured this image last year. It turns out that they like parsley and dill. We had some of those plants in a raised flower bed and the caterpillars laid them to waste. This year my wife planted some more parsley and dill and this past week it was evident that we are going to have yellow swallowtails again!!! Here are a few images of this year’s caterpillars. In a couple of weeks, I will have a whole new crop of butterflies to photograph.

Monday’s Music Moves Me

This week the theme at 4M is Songs about get-a-ways to chillaxing or anything that makes you think of summer fun. Buckle up…here we go.