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Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
So Tom Petty died twice, as it were. I like to think that he saw coverage of the horror in Las Vegas and couldn’t take it, having just concluded – successfully! – his final round-up tour. It just took him a while longer to shake loose this mortal coil.
I wish he was still with us, for his music, but also for him – I am a big, huge fan of his XM (known as SiriusXM) Radio program “Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure”. It’s some of the best stuff you’ll ever hear, and you’ll have lots of laughs learning about some great American (and British! and other!) amazing music. His knowledge, passion, oddity, heartiness, skill, cockiness, and subtle sensitivity were inspirational.
His radio show offers such a nice alternative to commercial crap it makes you weep, even more so knowing that he won’t be back to Rick’s Airport Recordings, having once again brought some rare recordings from his personal collection to provide – as he said, “the best rock, rhythm and blues”. It is an education, and I recommend it highly.
I just know Tom would wish we’d all roll some great tunes, likely featuring some of the great Wilson Picket:
And special bonus track from The Who, a band he often played. It wasn’t all American music!
Have a great weekend, everybody, here’s hoping it’s calm and without substantial horror.
Today, pictures from valued commenter WereBear.
Spent time at the lake with family. Gorgeous morning, when I timed the mist just right. Adirondack mountains, Labor Day weekend.
Cold evenings make the mists appear.
Sun just coming up over the mountain range in the distance.
Kayaking beckons.
Thank you so much WereBear, do send us more when you can.
Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.
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Mary G
Wow, gorgeous with the mist over the water. So peaceful.
OzarkHillbilly
Nice.
Betty Cracker
Love the Adirondacks! I have explored the foothills a little but would like to see more of them. (In the summer, of course.)
raven
Looks like a traffic cone out there, wonder if they are running trot lines?
Schlemazel
Great pictures! Thanks
Baud
Pretty.
JPL
Thanks for the pics!
debbie
I can just about hear wakening birds. Gorgeous!
JPL
@debbie: I imagined sitting by a campfire drinking a cup of coffee out of a tin cup.
debbie
@JPL:
That’s the best part of a camping day.
Elizabelle
Love the mist, Werebear. Great photos.
Coffee, snuggling in to cool weather clothes, evocative.
otmar
Fyi, I’ll be in the Seattle area Sun-Wed this week.
I might have time for a sponaneous meet up in downtown Bellevue. Who is in the area?
A Ghost To Most
@Betty Cracker: The Adirondacks are indeed beautiful, but my sense of scale no longer recognizes them as big mountains.
MomSense
Looks perfect, Werebear.
satby
Beautiful pictures Werebear! Thanks.
satby
@otmar: you should ask on one of the busier evening threads too.
MomSense
Alain, I too am a fan of the Tom Petty Sirius station and the Buried Treasure program.
I shared an article the other day written by one of the writers I follow. It’s a nice tribute to Petty and a commentary on the times we live in – especially with all that happened on that day.
Tom Petty’s America Is the One We Want To Believe In
rikyrah
These pictures are a combination of beautiful and haunting.
Mnemosyne
It’s mountains week at On the Road! ? My trip to Lake Arrowhead (documented yesterday) was the week after Labor Day. I probably should have said that.
J R in WV
@raven:
Here unattended trot lines are quite illegal, lest someone in the water get entangled with one. I was kayaking once with my brother and spilled at the foot of a chute, in the standing wave, which I went into for fun. When I came up, I was in the middle of a roll of old farm fencing, much of it barbed wire with woven wire. I cut my hands pretty badly, and drove back to town, 2.5 hours, bleeding the whole way to the ER. Bro drive the other vehicle with the kayaks in back of his truck. I had three-on-the -tree to shift, too. as well as steering, and it was a real mess.
A trot-line in the mix, with fish-hooks every few feet, would probably have done me in. Tetanus shots, scrubbed all the cuts with that brown stingy antiseptic, too long ago for stiches, so butterfly bandages.
The lake is very inviting, one could wait for the Lady of the Lake to rise, offering some wonderous boon to the watching person. Like all gifts of the fairies, doomed to drag one down in the end, just like Arthur.