Showing posts with label harp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label harp. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Weekly Header Challenge - Strings

It's time for the Weekly Header Challenge!


"Headbanger" Participants
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I'm joining in the group above for this weekly challenge.
Click on the other participants' blogs to see
what they've come up with!


Theme ~ Strings

Chosen by Kathy.


Below is the full image of my header--look at all those strings!

Detail of harp strings.

I almost went for the literal interpretation, which would be the below image.


But, I went with the musical connotation of strings.  Here are two harpists playing their strings.



The violin is also a beautiful stringed instrument.


When you combine certain strings, you get a bluegrass band!


This is the Atkinson family bluegrass band.  I blogged about them after a summer trip to my beloved Lake Bonaparte.


You have to dance to this music, or at least tap your toe.  If you're not moving while this music plays, you're pretty much dead.  ;)

Dancin' to bluegrass.

From the Atkinson's in New York I take you to the Winton family from California!  This family came to a church near us, and we went at a friend's invitation.


The above is one of the two brothers; when he was 16, he was the champion banjo picker for the whole state of California.  Needless to say, their music was phenomenal.


He also plays the dobro, below.


On to the guitar!  This young man is Andy Kenway, and you can listen to many of his own songs at this link.  He has a great passion for music, learning the guitar in a mere three weeks.



He also plays the mandolin, one of my favorite bluegrass instruments.


His brother Dan is no slacker when it comes to music.  Below, Dan plays his hand-made fiddle.


When Andy and Dan and a few of their musical friends get together, children tend to get up and dance.  See?

Dancin' in my living room!

These young men are very personable, too!  Below, Dan's and Andy's friend Dale helps Elijah play his violin.  They're all pretty special.


I hope you've "strung" together some great images of strings!  Can't wait to visit you all to see!!


Treasuring life's moments,
Christine

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Sunday, February 6, 2011

365 Project -- #29-35




[29] January 29 -- rose heart; taken at the ICHE Mother Daughter Conference

[30] January 30 -- harp strings

[31] January 31 -- snow-covered stairs

A friend who is taking a photography class called me and asked for HELP.  I gladly went shooting with her on one of the coldest days of the year, and got the stairs (above) to show her perspective.  I had to lie on the ground to get it, and she thought I was crazy.  It took a good 15 minutes in the car with the heater blowing before I felt my fingers again.  I think I'll stick with indoor shots until spring...

[32] February 1 -- Chicago Blizzard of '11

[33] February 2 -- hot tea on its way

[34] February 3 -- "Don't think we'll grill today..."

[35] February 4 -- My favorite tea mug...no longer

Yep, I broke my own tea mug while I was washing the dishes.  Sigh.  I figured I would take a picture of it, since it takes creativity to make something beautiful out of something broken.  That reminds me of what the Lord did for me...

...Giving them a garland instead of ashes,
The oil of gladness instead of mourning,
The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting.
So they will be called oaks of righteousness,
The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
Isaiah 61:3 nasb

Living life; capturing life.

Christine

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