Ekoostik Hookah at Dick’s Den (Columbus, Ohio) on 7/25/21. A special birthday party for 81 year-old jazz drummer Wally Mitchell. Thanks to my daughter Cassie for telling me about the event. Cassie working the controls of the Zoom H6 recorder on this one. See the band’s website.

The Moody Blues best album in five years benefited mostly from the presence of the Top Ten single “Your Wildest Dreams,” authored by Justin Hayward, which turned their status as survivors from the ’60s psychedelic era into a plus, with a great beat to boot; it also debuted with a very entertaining video featuring young […]

Westerville, Ohio close to sunset. Our group had just finished dinner at the Uptown Deli and Brewery and we walked a few blocks to Graeters Ice Cream where I took these photos. It was early evening and not long before sunset during that short time of day at sunrise and sunset that photgraphers call the […]

It was the place to go in the mornings where you could get the best cup of coffee and pastries that were good enough to be illegal. The coffee and pastries were expensive, but you forgot about the expense when you took that first sip of coffee or bit into one of their pastries. You […]

U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America, or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways in the U.S Highway System. Established on November 11, 1926, it originally ran from Chicago to Los Angeles and became one of the most famous roads in America.  Originally, it represented a road […]