Emily’s high school band, and many, many others, are playing
at Severance Hall in Cleveland, today. A
beautiful concert hall. I bought tickets
around for family members who don’t share my tin ear. Tom and Hamilton dropped Emily at her school
bus and went on up to Cleveland. Tom
wouldn’t miss this for anything and Hamilton is interested in hearing how his
new band performs.
That boy will be just fine.
He sat in on their swing band practice the other night and a regular
band class during the week. His trombone
is in the shop, but we hope to have it back in his hands tonight. At supper Emily teased him about being at
the back of the pack of trombones in the band.
He snorted. “I’m better than the
best of them!” Now, I’ve never raised
boys, and I had to grin. “You still need
to try out, Mister,” she reminded him.
Good to have him here.
Coming back from an errand we pulled into a drive to take a
picture of a red berry tree, half stripped of berries, but plenty left for the
birds. I have no idea what tree this is, many have red berries in winter. They are cheerful to see on such a dreary
day.
The only tree in which a cardinal is camouflaged!
ReplyDeleteJane x
That is a pretty tree; so colorful against the white snow!! Hope the concert went well for Emily :)
ReplyDeletebetty
Wow! That's so many berries. I watched a Song Thrush strip the last few off the bush in our garden last week.
ReplyDeleteSounds like he's getting into the spirit of things.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the cheery photo. We -- NYC -- finally had some sun today!
ReplyDeleteSounding good :)
ReplyDeleteThe red berries are bright and cheerful. I never know what berries are called, there are so many different kinds, I just call them all bird berries.
ReplyDeleteA trombone eh? That's noisy. I hear them here along with tubas and french horns in the "oom-pa-pa" bands.
I'm sure everybody did great with the band. The berries are so spectacular against the white of the snow.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful sight to see those red berries on a cold grey winter's day! I am sure your grandson will be just fine... Sometimes it is better when a child has the responsibility for choice lifted from his shoulders...
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that there are so many berries left on the tree. Migrating robins and waxwings stripped my crabapple tree clean before winter. It sounds like that ex-pastor's hold on Ham is wearing off. I'm sure he will be a much stronger and happier boy for it!
ReplyDeleteI never knew the name of those trees and would like to find out. great photos!
ReplyDeleteSounds like Hamilton is finding his feet. Relief.
I knew he would come around quickly once you pried him away.
ReplyDeleteI have a similar tree in my front yard, but it only burns fiery red in the Autumn for about two weeks and then browns up and stays that way until the next Autumn. Someone told me it was called a "burning bush"...but I dunno.
ReplyDeleteLike yours, it is lovely to look at, even just for the first two weeks of October.