To my surprise, Jim had a guest in the house. I had forgotten that Sheilagh O�Leary was coming today to take photos of Jim for the Naked Whistle Players calendar, sponsored by the St. John�s Folk Arts Council. I thought Jim was being a good sport about it since his application to sing at the Festival this year had been turned down. Sheilagh does nice work, at least for the other two Naked Player calendars she�d shot � Accordionists the first year and Guitarists last year. She said in my brief chat with her that the first one was easy to do, but that she spends � of her time convincing people she will not make them look silly, but they�ll look good. She�s an expert with shadows and angles. You should see Pamela Morgan�s shot last year with the guitar. Whoa! THAT looked good!
GBS�s Bob Hallett had posed for the first calendar, the accordion one, and I ended up buying a dozen to mail out to friends on several continents. Last year�s was amazing with the women taking the best shots I think. We joked on GBS�s messageboard this winter that the next calendar would be whistle players and how could you hide anything there? I nearly died laughing last week when Jim was asked to pose. �But we were just kidding about the whistles!� I wasn�t laughing at his being asked to pose, just at the absurdity of hiding anything behind a whistle. Jim�s found a way to pose and still be decent. Of course the Low D covers some territory. LOL! I won�t tell you how it turns out. Go buy the 2006 calendar and support some good Folk music.
Lillian had arrived and the photo shoot commenced upstairs as I tried to be casual downstairs, knowing full well the mischief happening elsewhere. I kept myself busy on the phone. I had spent the last 10 days trying to pay my speeding ticket online. It kept telling me that my ticket number didn�t exist. I finally tried to call the 800 number to pay it as well as the regular number when that didn�t pan out. It was rapidly coming upon the date it was supposed to be paid by. When I finally got through to a human, she explained to me that I�d have at least 30 more days to pay it since they were 5,000 tickets behind in entering them into the system � hence my ticket not existing yet. That was okay with me, as it meant I'd have additional money in my account for vacation. |
