Performing Group

It’s no secret that LaGrande Mermaid spends a lot of time at the dance studio.
What seems to be less evident, at least by a count of dance related bliefs, is how much she likes it.

This last weekend her group, named Animato, competed again; the season runs Jan through Feb/Mar and next weekend *might* be her last Animato performance of the 2011 season.
This weekend they performed two numbers a jazz number called “Proud Mary” in the blue costumes and a musical theater number called “Positoovity” in the white costumes. They did exceptionally well this time.

Positoovity got best overall (out of three numbers), the highest allowable ranking, and a special judges award while Proud Mary received the second highest ranking (both in the same age category) and another special judges award.

Without further ado,

Proud Mary

Proud Mary

Positoovity

Positoovity

There’s many a slip…

Today the choice was teacup – and looking back it was nice for a change not to worry about the proportions of an organic subject.
I have practice with inanimate, or man-made, shapes.

Here we see LaGrande holding the handle on her left and Biscotti on her right.
TheWeeOne is preparing to take a bite out of a very large marshmallow from our huge cup of snocoa.

...'twixt the cup and the lip.

Fast snowfall 2011

This snow was widely predicted (my new favorite weather predictor is Cliff Mass, the Atmospheric Weather Sciences Prof. at the UW – clearly he knows his stuff).
But even as widely predicted as it was it still accumulated faster than I thought possible.
In a few short hours it went from dry as a bone to about 4 inches, that’s fast.

Enjoy it while it lasts (or if you prefer a warmer clime…rest assured it won’t last long).

These are ~13 to 15 second time exposures taken between about 22:00 and 02:00.
(I worked tonight and will continue early tomorrow ’cause I FULLY expect to stay home and and play in the snow with The Mermaids)

What a tangle!

More tangle!

That's at least 4 inches! - in about 4 hours

Nashville

Southeast view from the top of the Renaissance hotel.

Seen here is the Cumberland river and the Shelby street bridge.
The largest building on the left side is the AT&T regional office, affectionately called The Bat Building.

Greatest state in the land of the free - although there's no mountaintops here - they're all in the eastern section of the state.

The weather is cold and several inches of snow is expected tonight.

Five miles to the southwest my great great grandfather R.R. Banker fought, as a member of The Union army joining General Sherman’s march to the sea, in The Battle at Brentwood.

I am here, in a small capacity, to enhance 9-1-1 architecture in ways that the people in those days couldn’t fathom. Those soldiers then helped maintain the union which now mandates it’s use (9-1-1) for the public good.

Update: in the time it took me to write this it really started to dump snow. Woo hoo!