Night in the City

Goooooood night sweet Houston!  By the time this posts I’ll be off into the great Blue (Lake) yonder.  The next ten days will be spent rehearsing and then it’s off to Europe for the tour!  I’ll miss you, fair city, but I’m sure you’ll survive without me.

Artist: Joni Mitchell/ Album: Song to a Seagull

Stormy Weather

*btw, this was supposed to go up yesterday but Blogger was being llllame

 

WELL! Houston has finally gotten some rain to quench our Texas sized thirst… and I’m pretty sure it’s been months since any kind of sizeable amount of H20 has graced our fare city.

The moment the sky turned gray I knew it would be the perfect time to do a bit of a preview of the Mitch Dobrowner show opening on June 4th!!

Trees-Clouds, Texline, Texas 2009

 

Ever since I was a kid I have always been fascinated with thunderstorms.  I lived in Michigan for a couple of years and the natives would always get in such a tizzy whenever one came through—except for them, a thunderstorm was basically your run-of-the-mill Texas shower.  Can you even call it a thunderstorm if there’s no thunder?

Road, Near Guymon, Oklahoma 2009

 

No… the kind I longed for in the Great Lakes State were the ones that I grew up with in East Texas (or behind the “pine curtain” as my friend Mallory so aptly puts it).  You know, the ones where the sky turns ominously green and you can qualify it not by the inches of rain measured but by the number of large limbs that have fallen into your yard.

Mesocyclone, Valentine, Nebraska 2009

 

Artist: Joni Mitchell/ Album: Both Sides Now

Tax Free

 

Even though yesterday was technically tax day here in the U.S. of A. I decided I would celebrate on its rightful day, the 15th.  And what better way to celebrate than by having the government provide me with a night of entertainment!!

My friend Julia (whom you may or may not remember from my trip to D.C. earlier this year) is a member of the United States Air Force Singing Sergeants, who, along with the Air Force Band, are currently on tour.  Luckily for me they made a concert appearance a little over an hour away in Huntsville!

For a little refresher, here is Julia singing with the band:

 

Also lucky for me was the fact that even though they were performing in Huntsville they were staying in The Woodlands.  Translation: I got to party with them afterwards at Blush Lush Crush and stay at Mallory’s!

A Singing Sergeant and a Dap Queen!

 

Even if it was just for a mere evening it was great to see Julia again! Plus, I did Texas proud by taking her and her friend Joe for a late night Waterburger, excuse me…What-a-burger run.  Keepin’ it classay 4EVER!!!

 

Artist: Joni Mitchell/ Album: The Beginning of Survival