Gates Up At The End Of The Season

The Pleasant Valley Playhouse is shuttered for the season and the audience is gone (for now).

With Labor Day taking families away, streets are quiet, still and empty of children's voices (for now).

Waters from the latest storm have receded, leaving the creeks shallow and still (for now).

Pleasant Valley Pool is dormant and still (until next year).
Red and orange leaves will fall soon and snow will surely pile up soon after that.
Scenes like the ones above, bearing their own individual differences, will appear again next year.
I look forward to seeing them all again in the sunrise of yet another green season.

Collage: "The Mods" (2011)

CHRISTIAN MONTONE

Collage: "The Mods"  (24 x 36 inches)  August 2011

Personal item... Now framed and hanging in my home.

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An Evening With Stevie Nicks

Stevie's show was a fantastic meeting of new songs from "In Your Dreams" and her classics... a

broader and even more powerful set than her (also quite fantastic) Summer 2010 Atlantic City show.

A perfectly cool September night under the dome with (as pictured below) Kristen, Steve and Scott.

Not pictured here, however, are my folks, whose 40th Anniversary we were celebrating on this night.
As I had hoped they would, they thoroughly enjoyed the show and were transfixed by the magic and seemingly ageless energy of Ms. Nicks.  This was a full circle moment, since it was their vinyl copy of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours that introduced me to Stevie's voice (as well as her world of capes, shawls and high heeled boots) as a child in 1977.

Two hour pre-show Instagram... It wouldn't take long for this place to become packed.

Vinyl Therapy: 1960s Psychedelia

Three brilliant listens with wonderful packaging (1967 - 1968):

Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Doors and The Jimi Hendrix Experience.