Country Radio Past

Back in the 1940's and 1950's  we didn't have a lot of country music on the radio here in the Puget Sound Area... KVI was the station that had some....Sagebrush Serenade was on mid-day.....at 5:30 pm was Chuckwagon Jamboree...At 10:30 pm was Ranch House Roundup until about midnight...So we listened to  those programs ...Harry Long and Buck Ritchie  were the main DJs...When KAYO  got going on full time country, Buck and Harry went  there..I think that was in the late 1950's. ..Bobby Wooten and Gary Vance soon joined KAYO also....KAYO brought entertainers in to play at the Opera House after the Century 21 Fair ended in 1962..also to the Evergreen and Puyallup  Fairs and some of the club venues...By that time  more and more country music  was taking root and expanding  bringing more country radio stations into  the area...Also with TV gaining more stations, came country programs  there.. This was great for  all of us who were country music fans...Country Music  told stories of real life....

PURPLE VARIGATED IRIS

This is an iris that  a neighbor, a couple of years ago, told me to take a piece of so I would have it  in my iris bed. So I did..This year it had two blooms.  I was pleased to see that it made it through.   I hope next year it will bloom again..  I have so many  iris but this is the most different....Enjoy!!!

Nostalgic Magazines

These are a few of the older magazines that were out many years ago.  Country Song Roundup came by mail for me....The rest we would look for where magazines were sold... Songbooks were found in music stores...Music stores have all but disappeared in most places...They used to sell sheet music, song books, records and some did  music instruments also... After so many other stores started carrying records, cassettes and so on, the music stores as we knew them  faded almost away.

We could go to the record store and listen to the record before we bought it...Now we do the same thing on our computers with the digital downloads and all.  Times do change..

Music was segregated  a bit differently than it is today..easy listening, pop, country-western.  On AM radio could find  Music Hall Varieties, opera and  Scandinavian etc. music.
                    Sometimes I wonder if we have really progressed.

It is fun to go through some of these  books and magazines and remind myself of all the songs ..Some of them are still heard today on classic music stations..Occasionally someone will record one of the oldies.  So that is nice.

The Old Flour Sacks

R. I. P.

We have lost so many this spring...The following will be greatly missed..
In March 2012   went  Eric Lowen of  Lowen  and  Navarro...
Then came  Adam  Yauch  of the Beastie Boys..
And then  George Lindsey  who played  Goober Pyle on the Andy Griffith  Show...
May they rest in peace.....

It's Lilac Blooming Time In The Valley

It's lilac blooming time again...Lilacs have always been one of my favorite flowers....Between lilacs and the apple blossoms our yard is very fragrant right now..I realized  some time back that ours is a spring yard.  I guess that is because I like all of the spring flowers so much...If I had it  to over I would probably do the same thing again..I have a flower bed where I have  more summer flowers..Then in the fall the  Lace Leaf Maples turn  brilliant red...so, needless to say  I like flowers and have since I was a little girl..  A person  can feel very at home in a flower garden..very peaceful..  Photos by Kari Scott

A FAVORITE RHODODENDRON---Photos

This  is the rhododendron  Mrs. G. W. Leak.  It is in full bloom right now.It is an earlier bloomer. The bush gets quite large..I call it leggy  but a person could trim it  more than I like to .  On these larger bushes, I like to let them go and  more or less do what they want to.  This is an older  name in rhodies..has been around for years..  If you have a yard  that will accomodate  a larger bush you might want to look for one of these  bushes in a nursery that caters to the older varieties of rhodies.   Photo by Kari Scott