My Neighbors on Charlie Rast Rd.

This family must have moved in recently...I hadn't seen them before...



My friend Ray up in Vacouver got a kick out of this pix
and decided to add a few captions...See below...

Some people just can't leave things alone....he-he

The Last Rose of Summer

This rose was the only... and last rose in my daughter,Sandra's front yard (They were having a Yard Sale last Saturday)...My son-in-law, Mike cut it and I asked him to hold it so I could photograph it with my phone-camera...After viewing it on my computer later I realized just how beautiful it is...A lucky shot!

Play It Again Uncle Sam (1973 Movie)

Back 1973 I was asked by a young director (Larry Lancit) at the SCETV Network to come over and try out for a part in a musical show starring Gloria Loring...At that time she was starring in a daytime soap opera called,"Days of Our Lives".Her husband then was Alan Thicke and he and Larry were co-directors of a new show which was called "Play It Again Uncle Sam"...Well I was very skeptical about applying for a roll in this show since I had never aspired to be an actor or singer...Larry said they were looking for someone to portray an old sea dog who sings with his crew while they haul the lines of the ship...

So I walked into the studio at ETV and introduced myself...Back then  I was 37 years old with a full head of hair down to my shoulders and a full beard and I weighed a little over 210 pounds...Alan looked at me and said to no one in particular..."Well he looks the part...Can he sing?"...I was ready for him and I started to sing in my best deep falsetto voice..."Poor Judd is dead.... poor Judd Fry is dead..."

I heard Alan say..."Well maybe he can lip sync it!"

And I was hired...

The show was about the history of America using the songs and music from way back then...Most of it was shot down in Charleston SC at the Charlestowne Landing Park...They had a large vessel moored in small creek...It was an old bark that had seen its last days...Large enough for someone to walk the deck and swing on the yard arm rigging...I became that someone...

I had to learn a new song...New for me...but old for all the seamen who sailed around Cape Horn and braved the treacherous seas of our Blue Planet...It was called,"Blood Red Roses" and it was sung by the first mate and the crew whenever they had to haul up the mainsail or haul in the anchor...it was a great experience for me...

Since I had worked for the SCETV for over ten years (as an artist and set designer/builder)and had left to become an art director for a local advertising agency the year previously...I knew most of the crew who worked on the show...They had many a good laugh when I did my thing...Back then they didn't have portable mikes like they do today and there was a long audio line which came out the bottom of my britches...That was a no-no...So what did they do? They had me lip sync it...It's a good thing I had learned the lines...So...If you click on the link below you can enjoy an old video from 1973 starring Gloria Loring, Bob Hope, Tommy Smothers, Taj mahal, Henry Mancinni, Sammy Kahn and yours truly...

Enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUDVQIubLm8

(The movie had been put on You Tube by a banjo picker Johnny Fenlayson (banjovi1953) who also had a part in the movie...he looked a lot younger then too)

Stand back and take a good look - On the Scene - TheState.com

Click on the link below and read about my friend and fellow artist Kirkland Smith... 

She is without a doubt one of the most innovative a brilliant artists in the USA today...

 

Stand back and take a good look - On the Scene - TheState.com

You can find out more about Kirkland by going to her web page:

http://www.kirklandsmith.com/

Health is the Wealth of Old Age

I was writing to a friend this morning and I penned this quote,"Health is the wealth of old age". I said to myself, "That sounds pretty good...I don't think I have ever heard that line before".  So I tried to look it up on the inter net  and I could not find it...So...you folks who have ventured to my blog can say..."I read it here".

Old Pix I found yesterday

These were taken back in January 2011 after our big snowfall...

 Maybe they will cool you off....hehe

Ron's blogging again

My friend in Vancouver likes to show flower portraits on his blog (Ray's blogging again)...So I thought I'd start blogging again with a flower portrait I took a day or so ago...What kind of flower is it?