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sure you feed your plants well with fish emulsion, seaweed, cof- fee grounds and aged compost. Do not water overhead and hard prune them at winter’s end, depending on the variety.


Sunsets melt into lingering days divine time of year. . . Move Forward!


of late spring as frogs and crick- ets continue their usual, prolific symphonies. Water bugs waltz and glide across your glassy pond. Fragrances begin to mingle in the warmer breezes.


What a simply


‘Spring Guide #2 & Whats UP! ‘Just Chillin’


sides having gallery shows of his art works in Europe and in the states. Even the music critic Christophe Lebold seems to be mingling poli- tics with metaphors when boldly praising Dylan’s “Everything is Bro- ken” (on Oh Mercy album) when he compares Dylan’s


“voice car- rying us across the landscape


of a bro- ken, fallen world---an example


of bro-


ken things grounded in concrete sonic reali- ty.” Phew— no wonder the tv is constantly showing “Break- ing News.” --Maybe it is sufficiently cool to say Dylan’s awards and rec- ognitions now show that song lyr- ics are taken very seriously right up there with poetry and novels. As for more moving, marvelous folk music, my favorite remains great old New Yorker Pete Seeger, born May 3, 1919. He was from a family of wonderful musicians, including his mother, Constance de Clyver Edson Seeger, who taught violin at the presti- gious Juilliard School of Music in NYC.


How


could anyone ever forget


his con-


genial personality and great talent as revealed in “Where Have All the Flow- ers Gone?” (1961)—


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surrounded by mounds of vanilla- flavored, heavy whipped cream with oozing raspberry—liqueur- laced—sauce oozing over the whole which rests on a delicate puff pas- try shell.) It was her favorite dish at the fabled Delmonico Hotel in NYC during her starring years at the Met Opera. Novelists


Katherine


Anne Por- ter (Ship of Fools) and the Norwe- gian Sigrid Undset,


Nobel Lau- reate were born May 15, 1890 and May 20,


1882, respectively. Dolley Madi- son had a May 20, 1768 birthday. Te grand dame of modern dance, Martha Graham was born on May 11, 1894. Brave Florence Nightin- gale, May 12, 1820. Te distinctive actress Katharine Hepburn had a May 12, 1907 celebration. And a grand comedian, Tina Fey surely has a party on May 18th! As for memorable, unforgettable performers, we should have had a big shout out for Roy Kelton Orbison on April 23, (1936). Known as “the Ca- ruso of Rock” his unique voice influenced a large number of greatly ad- mired performers—Bob Dylan, Bruce Springs- teen included.


In his


quiet, very musical vocal delivery, he as- tounded everybody


with his range of perhaps obvi-


ously a favorite song of Marlene Di- etrich who recorded it in English, German and French in 1962. We can enjoy some magnificent


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folks’ birthdays in May: Te widely adored Australian opera star, Nellie Melba was born on May 18, 1861. Even a scrumptious, opulent des- sert: “Peach Melba” honored her. (Preferably a whole, cognac-soaked fresh peach on a pretty dessert plate


even four octaves. Doesn’t every- body enjoy, his best rendition of “Pretty Woman?” When we leave the radio on


KDFC—the area’s only classical music station—while going in and out to talk to the rose bushes—our visiting kitty—the one we now call Garbo (since it wants to be leſt alone) calms down by the door- way and snoozes to Mozart’s music. ~Bravo to one and all!!! ~Ellie


18th Annual Senior Expo of Santa Rosa Set for May 6, 2017


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ The City of Santa Rosa Recreation & Parks Department presents the Senior Expo of Santa Rosa, a wellness event designed for active adults over the age of 50, on Saturday, May 6, from 9am – 12pm at the Person Senior Wing (2060 West College Avenue). This is the 18th year of the Expo and will feature over 80 exhibitors specializing in senior benefits, recreation, fitness pro- grams and travel. Free health screenings and educational seminars focused on estate planning, regenerative medi- cine, health plans, preventing elder abuse and food resources will be offered throughout the morning. Attendees will also have the opportunity to tour the Person Senior Wing.


Admission to the Expo is


free, and seniors and their fam- ily members are encouraged to attend. The event is sponsored in part by Carlton Senior Liv- ing, Johnson/Thomas Attorney at Law, Osher Lifelong Learn- ing Institute at Sonoma State University, Primrose Engaged Living


for Alzheimer’s and


Dementia and Vineyard Com- mons.


For more information, con-


tact Adriane Mertens, Market- ing & Outreach Coordinator, City of Santa Rosa Recreation & Parks at 707-543-3276 or amertens@srcity.org.


“Live your life, sing your song. Not full of


expectations. Not for the


ovations. But


for the joy of it.” Rasheed Ogunlaru


“Happiness doesn’t have to be chased...it merely has to be chosen.” ~ Mandy Hale


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