BEING GREEN

SF PEBS has a new member...

Kayli

Kayli is our gorgeous new artist.
she likes figurative works...

yes.... there's no mistaking...

it's not your set folks,

she has beautiful green hair...

beautiful smile and

charming personality...
a total beauty...

She just graduated from SF State.

.....meanwhile...
as opposed to the weather 

in the early part of the week where we 

had near ...

a biker before noontime at the Westlake area...

let's- go- naked -temperature....

Stern Grove

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the concerts at the grove is about to

 

culminate for the summer...

but there's always time to be foot loose and fancy free...

Dad, mom  and daughter going to

the hawaiian concert ...

As usual a large audience

are out here, sun or fog...

and the snack and refreshment kiosks 

serve everyone's favorite grill food...

hot dogs, burgers, chicken...

the Hawaiians

brought music from the

early 1900s to present...

for sure a noticeable difference

is reflected on the pacing ...

the mellow and slow rhythm of

the earlier years

had been changed to 

 faster pace by the

new generation of composers

in the last few decades...

Nonetheless, San Franciscan are not 

really particular about that. A concert on

a Sunday is an opportunity to relax

and listen to good live music...

that's all folks!

see you at the concert!!!

jt

HOW TIME FLIES....

......when you're having fun....

and that's exactly what it is today

at the Saturday Farmers Market

in Serramonte...

It is rather warm at 74 degrees with hardly a 

cool breeze to give one a relief....

but nevertheless the market

is packed with shoppers....

I get my organic salad from 

Roger 

Erica shops for carrots...

but the highlight of the day is the music that's provided, 

particularly , 

by Bill and Stephanie.

They caught my attention from a distance 

with "Moon river", a Henry Mancini composition for 

the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

Their guitar and flute combination is great

for easy listening and relaxation.

As they're jazz performers, we happened to talk about

the Marian McPartland KQED jazz on Wednesdays.

Though Marian passed away not too recently, there is

still a big audience listening to her on-going

Wednesday night radio program and I'm just

happy listening to it myself.

She's a long life typical to a lot of people 

in the arts.

Bill thinks it's on account of musicians, artists, actors, writers

able to touch the space of joy, almost devoid

of worries and able to do what you love to do. Something

Joseph Campbell spews about in finding time

for yourself and not for anybody else.

Even the Journal of American Medicine credits

longevity to the absence of tension and stress along

with great exercise and healthy diet.

Bill and Stephanie will have their gig in September

at the Southwest terminal arrival/baggage area

at the Oakland airport,

to bring joy via their sweet and soothing

music to airline passengers

while waiting to collect their luggages.

that's all folks!

Au revoir!

Hasta la vista!

jt

The Season Of Us 1

GRIEF

....we all carry it differently....

up until last week four whales

had been washed ashore in Pacifica...

dead.....

Sperm whale ...two weeks in decomposing state...

Curious Pacifica folks as well as those from neighboring

 communities checked out the whales....

the humpback whale was 4 days dead when 

i came to shoot the photos. 

It is interesting to note that in not

so far distance off the shore,

in the shallow waters....

3 or 4 whales can be seen

swimming around grieving....

they just couldn't leave the vicinity....

it's a very close parallelism to humans...

very touching ....one can feel

the wrenching pain.... 

two of these whales were hit by passing 

ships....

marine biologists still could not make a determination

on the cause of death of the other 2 whales...

they cut up parts of the whales for necropsy...

first time i've seen intestines diameter

big enough to fit

Jonah inside....

the skin is about 2.5 inches in thickness

supported by a layer of thick and heavy fat

approximately 9" inches....

gummy like but tough...

the fishy smell of the decomposing 

whales pervaded

a large perimeter

and the ocean wind was 

blowing it to the adjacent neighborhood

including part of the back nine 

of Sharp Golf course.

what stuck to my memory are the

whales that swam around to

perhaps mourn their

dead....

A rare sad story of other mammals

to be witnessed by  

humans who came for

curiosity and perhaps

also to mourn.

if one had to play music for the

tragedy, I think I'd

pick Sam Barbers'

"Adagio for Strings".

What is yours?

that's all folks!

jt

there never seems enough....

....time for us to do the things we love to do.....

this is self evident and all we can do is sigh....

after the experience ....

 but hopeful that,

indeed, we'll have another time

to continue where we left off...

this is just exactly what we experienced 

a couple of Saturdays ago when our group

had a catching up meeting

at the food court in Stonestown

where we exchanged warm

greetings and smiles

over cups of coffee...

Penelope will be off for Mindoro

where she'll host the 100th anniversary

celebration of NVM Gonzalez.

Theresa and Matt are planning on the 

market launching of their cd project.

Ramon is a busy body over his work

and his guitar playing.

And myself taking art life a little easy. 

There are only so many hours in a day.

I wish there were more but 

fretfully i cannot locate the guy who

invented time just so i can plead

for him to add more.

 Was it during the Sumerian 

times or the Aztecs ... I really don't

know . That was all before 

anybody's time, anyway.

But you know what I mean.

Matt and Theresa grabbed their light lunch

at the first opportunity they had to quell

their arguing bellies. 

Theresa took an extra bag of fortune cookies...

which later on 

pepped up an already exciting 

conversation.

Fortune cookie writers have a knack

of making the reader feel good.

Each one of us had fortune cookie notes,

that believe, you me, somehow playfully

touched a modicum of truth 

to just exactly what was

happening in our lives or at least what

were in our thoughts at the moment.... 

and reflections on our life's attitudes and

philosophies

...this is about me

We sort of had a feeling someone's playing

a joke on us...

for the notes were so accurate...

for a minute we thought it

was just a matter of coincidence...

so we randomly picked cookies

in a blindfolded manner to eliminate bias

as the statistician would insist....

but there you are... the notes were

like Sherlock Holmes smart...

we can't hide anything that we

knew were in the dungeon

of our thoughts....

to resolve what may dubiously is

a clear coincidence,

 we decided

to get another bag of fortune

cookies to see if they were going to

confirm the earlier messages...

"VOILA!"

they did!!!!

i'm rather falling asleep out

of the dehydrating weather

today. I wanted to elaborate

further on these notes...

perhaps i'll post a

sequel....

that's all for now folks!

Gute Nacht!

or Gut Morgen!

Magandang Umaga!

It's 1:55 A.M.

in SF

jt

x

Land's end

Recently I had the time and opportunity 

to take the Land's End trail...

to the shoreline....

it was a nice walk under the

warm summer sun...

a little over a mile to and fro

        from the upper level tier where i found

ample parking...  

this is a regular stop for tourist buses...

where tourists can enjoy the vista of the 

golden gate bridge, take photos and selfies...

for the 5-minute time they're allowed before 

the bus takes them off to the next stop...

i had been doing a painting 

of the rock below

it's now in the finishing stage....

(i'll post the photo in the next blog)

so the downhill trail is winding,

dusty with wire rails on both sides

and steps to make it easier

and safer going up and down....till

it reaches a vista point... 

the view on the north side is 

golden gate bridge

and the south side of the vista cliff

are both breathless...

the rock at the near left center of the horizon
is the subject of my painting

two ladies braved their way down the hard way...

i yelled out for them to go back up and take the safer route
but i guess they knew what they were doing...

and made it safely to the ground...

...enjoy the vista reserved for the brave and

the adventurous....

that's all folks!

keep in touch

and i'll be in  touch!

jt