A musical night out

No, we didn't see Carrie Underwood last night. We did see the Count Basie Orchestra at Fort Lewis College's Community Concert Hall last night, and they don't let you take pictures during the performance. So, this is an excuse to show off a surprisingly good shot I got of Underwood closing the Grand Ole Opry the night we stopped by in early October on our way back from my daughter's wedding. "Surprisingly good" because, with our spur-of-the-moment decision to take in the show, our tickets were for seats in row 'U' ... just under the roof, almost as far from the stage as it was possible to get!

Last night was different. The concert hall is small enough to feel more intimate and the viewing is as good as the sound (and the sound WAS good at the Opry). It was a real joy to hear the "big band sound" and see all the various soloists, young and old.

I wonder how many concerts the Count Basie Orchestra gives where audience members wear evening wear by Carhartt and arrive in pickup trucks with water tanks in the back?

We're moving along on launching FeVa Fotos. Using Homestead.com Web-building software (which is not exactly Mac-friendly!), we got some of our photos organized and posted on the Internet yesterday. So, visit www.fevafotos.com and tell us what you think! We'll post more pages of our best photos bit by bit.

This afternoon we're exploring a possible outlet in a card shop, and we hope to also come out of that meeting with final ideas about location, amount and formatting of text on the cards. That will complete the data we need, for now, to start producing FeVa Fotos cards, showing the products to more potential outlets and see how they fly.

In drafting the text for the "About Us" page on the Web site, I was thinking of much the same sentiments as Sandy expressed in the last post ... we've adopted "Share the Joy" as the tagline for our enterprise, and that seems so fitting for our lives now. Each moment, each corner offers an opportunity for a new joy to share ... together and with others. THE picture of ours that ALWAYS brings a smile to someone's face is Sandy's picture of two donkeys (there were three, actually) we saw when we ventured down a dead-end dirt road. Viva dirt roads! TV