Welcome to the ongoing weekly series called Tuesday Travelogue. We are in our 104th week!
Each week, some ActiveRain bloggers are spotlighted to take us somewhere we may not have been on some kind of virtual travel (and it doesn't cost a dime!). Here is the purpose:
to enjoy the ride"
"take a trip without even leaving the farm"
"expand your horizons"
"see through someone else's eyes"
and hopefully much more!
Singing came to mind as the theme for this week's Tuesday Travelogue. Our first one is somewhat of a love song...at least for Michelle Carr-Crowe and it is an ode to her longtime love, Steve. It is Smashmouth doing "I'm Taking a Ride with My Best Friend" in Palo Alto, CA...this post is quite endearing!!
Life is a song. Love is the music. ~Author Unknown
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts
Music and Louisiana go hand-in-hand and I wanted to pay homage to that this week as music can lift people up and keep them going in the midst of despair.
Mud and Water, a local hangout in Baton Rouge,LA would be just the ticket--along with other local favorites, brought to you by Sabrina Didier.
God sent his Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ~Rose F. Kennedy
Can you imagine hearing music in a canyon? Art for the ears AND the eyes, I'd say. Zion Canyon Music Festival in Utah....in September, check it out in Erika Rogers' post, a "leave-no-trace" festival. (Love that!)
O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! ~William Shakespeare
Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland
Songs of nature are some of my absolute favorites. Debb Janes speaks of spring, frogs singing and what that can tell you about how Mother Nature is singing to us from Camas WA.
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats. ~Woody Allen
And lastly, a brave soul singing (in what I figure is her native tongue) in Yosemite National Park, in CA, all alone except for our ActiveRain videographer, Bob Swetz. (You won't be able to click on the blogpost anymore, but enjoy the video, anyway--you will have to turn the sound up).
Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
She feels no biting pang the while she sings,
Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around,
Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.
~William Gifford
As long as we live, there is never enough singing. ~Martin Luther
Please don't forget to comment on these blog posts and I hope that you enjoyed all of these virtual travels.
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