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Red poppies are also quite symbolic to the Poles, whose soldiers died on the hillside of Monte Cassino during WWII:
Red Poppies on Monte Cassino (Czerwone maki na Monte Cassino)
Monte Cassino in Italy is famous not only as a beautiful mountain ...
Grrr...I run on a path around a city park and I eventually had to stop running on it because of the numerous piles of dog doo-doo that inconsiderate pet owners refuse to pick up. There are even signs around to remind people to pick up after their ...
Lovely! The sage is so healthy, i can't get it to grow at our house. We do have Primrose, Sedum and Penstemons that look good.
Very nice, I especially like the clematis. Thanks for sharing
I have so many morning glories in my backyard that I'm pulling them up by the kajillions. Them, and sunflowers from the seeds that the squirrels squirrled away for the winter and never retrieved. Egads. It's proliferation madness.
I've been furiously working in my yard, planting tomatoes and whatnot, but the fruits of my past labors are quite evident. Enjoy the splendor.
I once got a parking ticket at a meter and I didn't initially pay it. The price got upped when I received a second notice (this was quite awhile ago). I went down to the place where you pay tickets in person and was told that there was no ticket o...
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- Where I Live:
- Over the river and through the bosque
- About Me:
- Once a wearer of lab coats and a dabbler with the RNA or DNA beasties that can kill you, I gave up that glamorous job to become an internal auditor. What was I thinking? A fan of the Hitchcockian Roger Thornhill who once asked, "How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you?"
- Favorite Thing(s) About Albuquerque:
- Mountains, chile, sun, open spaces, Santa Fe Opera (wait...that's Santa Fe), the Montano Bridge, Gruet champagne, avians
- Relationship Status:
- Single
- What I'm Reading:
- If it involves cooking, gardening, the making of the atomic bomb, some peoples' biographies, wild west stories, weird and creepy stuff, birds, not-so-much-deep-thinking (I've given that up, along with tortured soul Russian literature), or breaking news about infectious diseases...I'm there.
- What I'm Listening To:
- The songs in my head.
La Fanciulla del West's Blog
Spring Splendor
I've been furiously working in my yard, planting tomatoes and whatnot, but the fruits of my past labors are quite evident. Enjoy the splendor.
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Posted on May 6, 2009 at 8:11am — 2 Comments
Run, Susan, Run
Ever since I ran that mile so many years ago on a dusty track in Minot, North Dakota to become eligible for the President's Fitness Award, I've wanted to run.
And so I have, with each incarnation of my running experiences being different. In Louisiana I'd get up at 5 am to run in the dark because the thought of running during the day seemed like torture. Extreme heat and humidity made it unpalatable. Then there were the Obsessive Years where I'd run at least 6 miles a day. My route went around… Continue
And so I have, with each incarnation of my running experiences being different. In Louisiana I'd get up at 5 am to run in the dark because the thought of running during the day seemed like torture. Extreme heat and humidity made it unpalatable. Then there were the Obsessive Years where I'd run at least 6 miles a day. My route went around… Continue
Posted on February 21, 2009 at 9:21pm — 1 Comment
Birds in the Hood
I originally wrote about sauntering into Fredrico's hair salon at Montgomery and Tramway with an outdated copy of Bon Appetit in my hand that had a picture of Candice Bergen on the last page and telling him to make my hair look like hers, much to the dismay of some guy on the other side of the universe, but I decided that posting pictures of the birds in the hood was infinitely more interesting. Maybe. Besides that, you can listen to my Christmas music (and yes, Marilyn Monroe singing… Continue
Posted on December 13, 2008 at 7:04pm — 4 Comments
For Ron: The Lapse of a Law-Abiding Citizen
I'm writing this blog for another DCFer who asked me to comment further on a comment I made to him. Since this is publicly posted and there's an off-chance that someone other than Ron may read this, I'd like to make the following statement: I did not write this to begin a discussion of the pros and cons of the Montano Bridge, so pleeeease don't go there. This is meant to be a humorous look at me looking at one of Albuquerque's landmarks and how I decided, perhaps erroneously, to invoke a piece o… Continue
Posted on September 1, 2008 at 1:31pm — 13 Comments
It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
I got the urge to write again and I pondered the subjects swirling around in my brain. Should I go with chile roasting, or should I write about The Dead Donor Rule, the ethics of which was discussed in a recent issue of The New England Journal of Medicine?
To some of you, this may seem like a no-brainer dilemma. I mean, c'mon! This joint ain't called Duke City Fix fer nuthin' and chile roasting would be about our most favorite thing in the whole wide world: chile. How could I go w… Continue
To some of you, this may seem like a no-brainer dilemma. I mean, c'mon! This joint ain't called Duke City Fix fer nuthin' and chile roasting would be about our most favorite thing in the whole wide world: chile. How could I go w… Continue
Posted on August 21, 2008 at 5:30pm — 19 Comments
Comment Wall (35 comments)
- At 2:23pm on June 20, 2009,
richard esquivel said…
- Hola, richard esquivel opera guy from Sanfran, looking forward to Santa Fe's season. You did invite me to your tailgate party - when? I'm unsure when I will be in ABQ but will definitely be going this summer, also must check on my 88yr old mother. Saw "Traviata" Tuesday night with Anna Netrebko,FAB, next day rode my bicycle to the baseball game, day game Giants vs Angels,that night saw "Tosca" at the opera with Adrianne Pieczonka, sounds Polish but she is from Canada. Ah yes, life in Sanfran. Looking forward to hearing from you again.
- At 9:02am on April 3, 2009,
akoolstik said… - hiya, i stumbled onto your page here, and enjoyed the first few tunes on your music player. however, i must strongly recommend searching out Girl from Ipanema on the Getz/Gilberto album. it is the definitive version which i am sure you will appreciate.
also 'she called up' from the recent crowded house album has a wonderful video.
Cheers!
ge
- At 12:07pm on February 28, 2009,
richard esquivel said…
- a week ago you responded to my correspondence as "wonderful comments" I thank you so much for those kind words. I would have responded earlier but I don't have a computer her in ABQ and use the ones at the library. MY 87 yr old mother was bedridden for 4 days with some virus, then I think I caught it so I was confined to her house for almost a week.
One day and a half sicker than I have been in over 20 yrs, that is, throwing up every half an hour it seemed. The last time that happend was on a all day, all night train from Hohhot, the capital of the autonomous province of Inner Mongolia in the Peoples Republic of China, to Beijing. I was in a 3rd (4th, 5th?) class comparment sqeeezed in like a sardine. Every half hour or so climbing over people, children in the aisles peeing, men smoking and spitting to go the the toilet, actually no toilet a hole in the floor to vomit which every time was witnessed by at least 5 or 6 people. Gave them quite a show. At one point crawled under the seat, took out my dirty underwear in my backpack to cushion myself in order to stretch out. Put on my Walkman and listened to Yo Yo Ma playing the Bach Suites for Unaccompiened Cello. The train gets back to Beijing and stays in the station for 45 minutes BLASTING military music in praise of Chaiman Mao. I thought my head was going to explode. The rest of my 2 month travels in China went quite nicely.
PS Before that another vomitting story involving sleeping out on the deck of a falucca (kind of sailboat) going down the Nile from Cairo to Luxor.
- At 12:08pm on February 19, 2009,
richard esquivel said…
- About Polish singers, saw the Met's Lucia di Lamamoor last night at the Century 14 downtown, the Enrico was Mariusz Kweicien who was the Santa Fe Don Giovanni, the Edgardo was another Polish singer, Piotr Beczala who I heard as Lenski in the Opera Eugene Onegin" in San Francisco in 2004. Both were fantastic. There is a Polish Metzo - Stefania Toczyska - who sang many times in SanFran in the 80's, also heard her sing Carmen in Munich. Her most memeroble performance was Amneris in "Aida" in SanFran with Pavorotti and Leontine Price (yes.can you believe it), Must admit tho it was the worst acting I have seen from anyone portraying an Egyptian princess since Ann Baxter in the "Ten Commandments."
However my all time favorite Polish singer is the Contralto Ewa Podles, actually saw her in recital in Santa Fe a few yrs back. Check her out on Youtube.com singing from Rossin"s "Semiramide" "Ah quel giorno rammento" 2nd page scroll down to the bottom, I love to play it when I'm riding my bicycle over the Golden Gate Bridge. Also listen to a lovely duet she sings with Sumi Jo from Rossini's "Tancredi," "Fiero incontro." There is no voice like Ewa Podles. Love to hear from you
- At 3:42pm on February 12, 2009,
richard esquivel said…
- Richard from SanFran,
Read some your correspondence on your interest in the Manhattan Project, read many books on the subject, some included in others blogs. Someone recommended The TV series with Sam Waterson as Oppie -- highly recommend it, Saw it about 25 yrs ago and just saw it again recently you can get the 3DVDs on Netflix. I think I've gotten over 60 operas on Netflix, keeps me entertained while I'm here in ABQ.
- At 4:52pm on February 10, 2009,
richard esquivel said…
- la fanciulla,
Richard from SanFran, You want hear my opera stories, well up until 3 yrs ago I had seen every production at the San Francisco Opera for the last 38 yrs (I started young), also I have been to most of the major opera houses of Europe, each on numerous occassions. So if I really got going the stories would drone on like some endless Proustian stream of consciousness narrative. I've notice in your corespondence many things relating to the Westside. From where my Mother lives in the Northeast Heights the Westside seems like on the far side of the moon, tho if those lips in your website are real I'll get down on my hands and knees and crawl to the Westside. My Mother has many relatives who live in the Westside and she (and I by extension) are (were) heirs to the Atrisco Land Grant. But then our shares in the Westland Corp were sold (out?) to Calif Developers. Better than my Father's land grant in Socorro County which was stolen by out state gringos during the Depression in the 30's. Oh well all land is stolen, show me land and I'll show land that is stolen.
So Fanciulla I hope we keep up our corespondence, so much to talk about, the history of the making of the atomic bomba, birds Roger O Thornhill, Bellini (Vincenzo and Giovanni) stories and Polish singers. So you write about movies, must quiz you on your 15 favorite Italian movies of all time. And yes will tell you my opera stories one at a time, like attending opening night at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
- At 2:41pm on February 5, 2009,
richard esquivel said…
- richard, opera guy from SanFran, didn't see susan graham in the Mozart opera, 2005 ended my 10yr love affair with her..she sang at dubyas 2nd inaguaration, UNFORGIVEABLE seeing as how the man is a war criminal, domestic criminal, and a mass murderer. Did see the don giovanni you referred to, actually saw it twice, always love dongio expecially when there is cute Zerlina as there was is this production. Thanks for info that the upcoming opera the letter is based on a picture with bette davis, will check it out. Thanks for the invite to join your tailgaiting party, threw my own last season for the first time, had friends from Calif and New England for the week, so what did I have? Something I have never seen at the Santa Fe opera - tamales and posole, normally you see people with their boxed Whole Foods meals. For many years my ritual was before the opera have a blue corn tamale with papaya sauce with a margarita at the rooftop bar at the Coyote Cafe, but they don't serve that anymore. Apres l'opera not much going but in SanFran so many elegant bistros surround the opera house and symphony hall (across the street from the opera house) that martini and conversation are a must. Get so frustrated in ABQ having to explain to bartenders how to make a martini. Oh yes and then there was that rainy day in Venice after seeing Handel's Orlando at La Fenice that spent the rest of the evening drinking Bellinis at Harry's Bar.
- At 8:32pm on February 3, 2009,
Sarahjmd said… - Thanks for the encouragement. I need all the help I can get. And I love Keb Mo too!
- At 1:11pm on February 1, 2009,
Bosque Bill said… - Bella signora, I just figured out your username! Molto intelligente!
You have to love the Internet at times like this, I've now listened to two arias from the opera, one sung by Mario del Monaco, the other by Franco Corelli in Tokyo.
(No, I don't speak Italiano, just have Google Translate bookmarked.) I just joined the Westside group, too.
- At 11:21am on January 30, 2009,
richard esquivel said…
- dick johnson again (aka ramiriz), usually when I come to Santa Fe for the opera try to come in August when I can see all five in one week. Then I'll get my chile, Contreras farm, outside Lemitar and head back to San Francisco. Very much looking forward to hear Dessay in Traviata, also will be hearing Netrebko in the role this June in San Francisco, I'm obssesed with Traviata - 8 recordings, or is it 9. Heard Dessay as Lucia last year in SanFran - fabulous, beyond fabulous. San Francisco is doing Faciulla in June of 2010, looks promising Deborah Voigt and Salvatore Licitra. All my coming and goings depend on the health of my 80yr old mother who lives in ABQ. Thank you for taking the time to read and respond to my comments on Dukecityfix.com. Also thanks for the Dino song, love Dean Martin, but of course opera is my obssesion.
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