Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, featuring Edie Brickell - Wow!

Drop everything you're doing and watch this ... So great! And, best of

all... We had the good fortune to have a couple of fantastic seats at last

night's performance of Mr. Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers,

featuring the lovely Edie Brickell. We left with this autographed poster

and their new CD autographed by both Steve Martin and Edie Brickell!

I have been a fan of Steve Martin forever. And, although I kinda lost track of

her music after the late 80's, Edie Brickell has long been a favorite. Hearing

their stories about how these two incredibly talented people came together,

along with North Carolina bluegrass band, the Steep Canyon Rangers to create

such magnificent music, which they performed for nearly three hours, made for a

truly inspired evening! Steve Martin was funnier than ever and, man!, he can play

the banjo! The Steep Canyon Rangers are ah-mazing and, by the time the show

was over all we could think about is how to see them again. Fortunately we'll

have the opportunity this September in Raleigh... Because I just bought tickets!

This morning, I loaded Love Has Come For You onto my iPod

and took it down to the pool where we planned to spend all day!

84 is usually my number but I spent zero time complaining about this yummy 86!

Instead, I kicked back in my float and watched the virtually cloudless sky!

Nearly cloudless but not bird-less at all, because all day a woodpecker

flew back and forth between the trees behind the pool and the tallest

tree in our back yard. She always seemed to land in the same spot...

So I decided to grab my camera and zoom in for a closer look!

I was right! It is a she and, she is feeding her babies in that nest just below her feet!

I stopped counting after the fiftieth trip she made!

Not a bad way to begin our first weekend of summer!