Simon and Garfunkel

Most people will look at this photo and will know who these two gents are. I can't remember a time when Simon and Garfunkel weren't a part of my life.  As a girl my sister learned how to play piano (I couldn't or didn't because I had no thumb on my right hand) but I could sing and did I! When my sister turned 12 she was given a songbook of Simon and Garfunkels hits. She learned how to play many of them but the one I remember the best is Bridge Over Troubled Water. She would play and I would sing and my grandfather loved it.... so much so that he recorded us on a really bad cassette player and we still have that cassette (but no player to play it on).

I was tickled this morning to learn that Paul Simon has just turned 70 years of age.... and he keeps on truckin'.  He has just come out this year with an original album and recently he has come out with an album of previous hits. That to me is just awesome.  Now I realize that a lot of people out there will say that Graceland was Paul Simon's best album ever but I disagree... I just love Rhythm Of The Saints. The Daughters and I will groove out in the living room listening to that album fairly regularly.  So I am looking forward to listening to these new albums.

The other evening I went for a walk with Teapot and on reentering our driveway I was truly impressed with two trees standing sentinel over the driveway and house in the full moon's glow. One tree is a Pine tree that so far has been able to withstand the onslaught of the Pine Beetle and the other is a twisted and gnarled spruce tree. They have been standing over the driveway since we first moved into this house and somehow in the moonlight of the other night they made me feel like I was coming home to two good friends. So I named them.... they are... you guessed it... Simon and Garfunkel.

Teapot thinks I'm nuts....
I think you should just "Slow Down You're Movin' Too Fast...."  and check out the trees or smell the roses... it's all the same.

"Feelin' Groovy"