Saturday, July 17, 2010

Friday Night Music


There is SO MUCH to do in our area and July and August likely offer the most choices. When possible we love to take in music at the marina park in Northport on Friday nights. Commonly, a local business sponsors the event and volunteers (music lovers) come around during the show and collect donations.

Last night we enjoyed a blue-grass band ("Sour Mash"; their site is here and the name stems from this) that performed in the traditional method of how the genre developed--all playing and singing around one mic. I'd guess about 400 people or so set up chairs and picnics and enjoyed the show for about 2 hours. 

We seem to not only enjoy food and wine in our area, but pets too; I had to include the cute lab shot. (If you like labs, check out my employer's publication: Just Labs Magazine

Hope you had a good weekend too.
Andy






3 comments:

  1. Oh that sounds like a great evening! Is that really the glow of the sun setting..looking like a fire glazed porcelain vase on the horizon? Wow..

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  2. It was a really nice time, Bren, and, yes, that is the glow of the sun. We live on a peninsula in Lake Michigan (see Google Earth link below) and the sunsets can be quite striking.

    We keep looking for the "green flash", but have yet to see it. We know people who have seen it and believe someday we will. Learn more about the green flash at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash

    Thanks,
    Andy

    Google Earth Link:
    http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Suttons+Bay,+Leelanau,+Michigan&ll=45.007805,-85.66416&spn=0.383029,0.878906&t=f&z=11&ecpose=44.63001481,-85.66476888,42655.35,0.065,44.621,0

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  3. We too have seen the green flash..a few times..during July here in N.S.... Don't blink!! )))

    Great place you live. I am surprised you are so close to the Canadian border... don't know this part of the USA at all.

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