Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: swing

Here's the snow I mentioned a bit ago.

The previous owners of our house on Palmer Avenue left behind an old wind-up phonograph. Since Dad had 150 or so shellac 78s in his record collection, they seemed a perfect match. So we playied jazz and swing on that old box. Although Dad's tastes ran to Stan Kenton and Benny Goodman, the set contained a good cross-section of all popular music from his youth. Duke Ellington. Stan Getz. Bunny Berrigan's heavenly long rendition of "I Can't Get Started" ( iTunes ). Patti Page. Lionel Hampton. Glenn Miller. Tommy Dorsey. Count Basie. You get the idea. =================== Since I wasn't planning to take a photograph tonight, I resorted to the Treo to take this one. it's of Rachael Davis , accompanied by Steppin' In It , performing Shout Sister Shout! at the Creole Gallery in Lansing's Old Town . They've clearly digested a similar music collection. Rachael's absolutely wonderful. And she told us a story about a CD player which jibes nicely with my phonograph story. They released their album , called Shout Sister Shout, today. Dad would have loved it, and them. Thanks, Andy . ======================== The concert closed with It's a Sin to Tell a Lie, which these folks apparently learned from The Lost World String Band , an old favorite of mine. I, however, learned the patter verse from a Page Cavanaugh Trio recording. It was part of Dad's performing repertoire, too.

The porches of Mulliken....

Battle Creek Bombers first baseman Derek Hasenbeck takes a cut at a pitch during last night's (ugly) game against the La Crosse Loggers; the pitch was thrown by Grant Yost. 'Twas one of those games where neither team seemed to want a win.... Original photo here . 684 pix from the game here . Bonus! 783 photos from Wednesday's game here .

University of Michigan Wolverine outfielder Zach Zott gets a piece of a pitch from Michigan State's Andrew Waszak , yesterday at MSU's McLane Stadium. Great light, yesterday; look how the camera just stopped that ball. Then check out the shutter speed.... Original photo here . 632 game photos here .

Christian Reyes of the Swing of the Quad Cities (Cardinals farmhand) looking to see where the ball's gone, and starting his run to first base. The out-of-focus coach in the background is Charlie Poe; Matt Liuzza's catching. Original, quite similar, photo here . 135 game photos here

West Michigan infielders Nick McIntyre and Brent Dlugach, plus an unknown Quad Cities baserunner, waiting for action to begin at Fifth Third Ballpark in Comstock Park, Michigan. I've been working hard on mwlguide.com/ for the past month, trying to catch up a couple years' neglect. Yesterday I rebuilt the site's front page, and used a version of this photograph. About 9 weeks to minor league Opening Day....

Quad Cities @ Southwest Michigan 061206. Original version of this photograph on my MWLGuide photostream ..

A flower a day for January .... Our little rose garden, at its best. Rarely looks this good, unfortunately.

These days we can swing, since Joan's fixed the seat. Just yesterday I was swinging. Oh, yes. Here's that trellis again. Early in the morning a year ago I took a few pix in the yard for the 366 Snaps project. That's really all I have to say about it.... ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 15 Title of " roll :" Around Home Other photos taken on 9/12/2012: The Daily Flower Census included about 50 pix of flowers, a couple of the sunset, and a few of our cat watching the neighbor's cat .