May 6th: The percussion section of the Ohlone Wind Ensemble after the concert:
2017 Christmas eve: Salem Tuba Holiday
Sunday, November 5th 2017: The game camera at the bottom of the driveway
caught a nice picture of a mountain lion. This is a juvenile (lighter
and skinnier than the adult female). And then, about a minute later,
our neighbor walking his two dogs. For comparison, a bobcat picture
from a week earlier.
Monday, October 23rd, and Sunday 29th, 2017: Ohlone Wind Orchestra dress rehearsal, and concert:
Monday, October 16th 2017: The Bear Fire. A large forest fire started in the
evening in the Conley Creek canyon right behind our house, and got to within
1/2 mile (3/4 km) of our house. We were officially evacuated, and for a while
it looked like our neighborhood would be lost. These pictures are during the
night, first two from our house, the third from Nick and Sue's obseration deck
at 4am, with the fire dangerously close. The fourth picture is again from our
house, where it looks like the sun is rising below the horizon:
Next pictures are in the morning:
By Tuesday evening, the fire was under control, and not worth photographing any more.
Progress on the pump house: The generator was installed in February 2017 (because we
were stuck at home for 5 days, and had no power); the link is a video of it
running (and powering the house) for the first time. The exterior siding was
done in the spring. In July, the interior wiring was done, but no drywall yet.
By October the plumbing was mostly done and the blue pressure tanks installed.
Europe trip: Saratoga High School's band and orchestra played in
Belgium and the Netherlands. First, in Brugge, then in Utrecht at
WASBE, and finally in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam:
Sunday, July 2nd: Fixing our road with neighbors Jack and Nick:
June 8th: Graduation, first with the Principal, then with a group of friends
(all band, mostly low brass), and then with his 3rd grade math teacher:
Thursday, May 25th: End of year concert of the Jazz bands:
Saturday, March 11th: Jazz cabaret at the high school:
Friday, March 3rd: Huerta's Tree Service was here and took it down. The third picture is the last cut;
the tree was large enough they sliced it while standing (if it falls, it would damage the
pavement):
February: The Saratoga High School soccer team (John in the yellow jersey), and a few pictures of the Thursday 2/2/17 game against Wilcox (John in goal, blue jersey and skull cap)
Thursday, February 16th: The last game of the high school soccer
season, against Fremont high: Saratoga won, which gave them the second
place in the league. The hug is after the winning goal.
Christmas eve 2016: Salem Tuba Holiday
December 2016: A few high school pictures: Tuba in the symphonic wind ensemble,
goalkeeper in the varsity soccer team, and bass trombone in the jazz
band.
And a few cute animals seen last week on our driveway:
December 24th 2015: "Tuba Holiday" of the Salem Concert Band (in Salem,
Oregon).
December 5th 2015: Christmas concert of the Ohlone bands. First, the Ohlone
Community Band, John in tuba, Ralph in percussion and piano. Second,
the Ohlone Wind Ensemble, being conducted by a very young lady who won
the raffle:
Sunday, July 26th 2015: In March, a mountain lion was seen four times in a row at
the bottom of our driveway. We installed a game camera. After roughly 4,500
pictures of cars, racoons, neighbors, deer (and occasional bobcat and coyote),
we finally got two pictures in the evening (click on the small picture to get
the full-size version). We also have a collection of
mountain lion pictures on a separate web page.
Sunday July 26th and Saturday August 1st 2015: Mid-session and final concerts of
Cazadero Music Camp. John was in the concert band both weeks. Video
recordings are listed below. Second picture is playing the solo in Maslanka's
requiem, the rest are from the final concert:
Video recordings (sorry, didn't record jazz and orchestra on the final
concert, equipment issues). The section headings below link to a
playlist of all the pieces of that section:
| Mid-session concert: Jazz ensemble: | ||
| Four Play | James Williams, arr. Bill Mobley | |
| The Touch of Your Lips | Ray Noble, arr. Joe Mazzaferro | |
| Kids Are Pretty People | Thad Jones | |
| I Left My Heart in San Francisco | arr. Quincy Jones | |
| Muevete con Prisa | Aaron Lington | |
| Mid-session concert: Orchestra: | ||
| Egmont Overture | L. van Beethoven | |
| Sarabande, from Holberg Suite | Edvard Grieg | |
| Jupiter, from The Planets | Gustav Holst | |
| Hoe-Down, from Rodeo | Aaron Copeland | |
| Mid-session concert: Concert band: | ||
| Entry March of the Boyars | Johan Halvorsen, ed. Fennell | |
| Groovy Loops | Scott McKenzie | |
| Requiem | David Maslanka | |
| Machu Picchu | Satoshi Yagasawa | |
| Final concert: Concert band: | ||
| Liberty Fanfare | John Williams | |
| Night on Fire | John Mackey | |
| Earth Song | Frank Ticheli | |
| Speed of Heat | Julie Giroux | |
| New York Hippodrome | J. P. Sousa | |
June 14th: The West Valley Silver Lightning competing in a beach soccer
tournament in Santa Cruz:
June 7th: And one of the final games of the spring season:
February 7th: In goal for the Saratoga High School Varsity soccer team:
Wednesday, December 24th: "Tuba Holiday" of the Salem Concert Band (in Salem,
Oregon). John got to stand in front of the ensemble to compare his tuba with
an F-Alphorn. A fun concert: see a whole bunch of tuba players laughing during
their rests in the last picture.
Saturday, December 6th: Christmas concert of the Ohlone band program. First
two pictures of the massed brass ensemble, playing David Lovrien's arrangement
of "Adeste Fideles" (first photo by Jasper Gong).
Then the Ohlone
College Community Band:
November 5, 2014: Fall concert of the Ohlone College Community Band:
And two sound recordings of the orchestra, first playing Verdi's Overture to Nabucco (which is good for a solo bow from the low brass), then the last movement of Dvorak's 8th Symphony:
| Verdi's "Nabucco": | |
| Dvorak's 8th Symphony, last movement: |
Saturday, August 02, 2014: Final concert of the Cazadero music camp, high school session. No pictures yet (have to pull them out of the video recording), but the video is online on youtube. John was in the concert band, not in the symphony orchestra for this concert.
Older pictures also have their own web page.
Rain in late June! Right before Sunset, so it made a particularly
nice rainbow. Click on the image to get a much larger image, or click
here for a 1280x1024 pixel image.
Aerial photograph of house and driveway, taken on 18-Oct-1998 (just
after the house was built and before we moved in) by our neighbor
Terry Wilson. Click on the picture to get a bigger version:
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