A Day of Music

These music posts are getting boring. I find posting them boring. But I do enjoy being able to play the recordings back to myself.

If you want to listen, I highly recommend the 'In an underpass' recording. The acoustics under a bridge make everything sound nice.

A Musical Hike

Today I took a hike in pursuit of interesting places to play flute. I carried my sitting box under one arm, and humped my flute across my back.

First, I climbed up Pulpit Rock to play on the mountain. A persistent wind forced my retreat.

On the mountain

Wind is a formidable adversary.

Then I came down from the mountain and played in an underpass between the University to the shopping center. A lack of warmth and of sunlight prodded me along.

In an underpass

The acoustics are amazing!

For the remainder of my day, I followed signs leading from the shopping area to a recreational trail. I set in search of sunlight, but ended up walking for miles out of curiosity for what I might discover. The sun was nearly below the horizon when I stopped at a soccer field on which to spit out a few more tunes (unrecorded).

I mistakenly thought the trail was a scam, nothing more than a glorified sidewalk around the shopping center. But it turned out to be much more. The wide paved tract wound up a hill, sprinted past homes, stretched across a frozen lake, and curled around bike and skate parks.

Bike park (left) with dirt ramps. Skate park (right) with posers and tweens

On my way back, I created an original theme song (probably by plagiarizing bits and pieces of music I had played during the day).

Walking theme song

Greenway Trail

From the looks of the map, there seems to be a recreational trail that connects northern city of Monument to the southern city of Fountain, a distance of about 35 miles. The Greenway trail is the section of this trail system that runs through Colorado Springs.

Greenway panorama at the University Village Center in Colorado Springs.

Two roads diverged by a yellow fort

A straight path was stitched across 180 degrees.

Greenway panorama along a reservoir near the Garden of the Gods

I heard a cacophony of barking coming from across the reservoir. There's a building on the far side of the ice marked with a sign that reads "Lucky Dog". I think that's where they make 'Red Tick Beer'.

*Tastes* Hmm, needs more dog.

Reminds me of this veterinary clinic I pass by frequently on my way to the Unviersity.

Look-it dat qute l'il doge!

Homeless creek

I kept an eye out for homeless camps along the creek that ambulated under the arm of the trail. Surprisingly, no signs of sleeping sites in the thrush; I would sleep there if I were homeless. But then I did find a site under a broken bridge.

HA! Found ya!

I wanted to play music on top of the bridge, but to my surprise the bridge actually was broken. I couldn't get across from my side of the creek.

Haw haw, you can't get to me!

A miscellany of stupid humor

Comfy in there, mate?

What kind of a man's man puts a urinal in that position? I couldn't squeeze inside with my backpack on.

I suppose somebody who enjoys male company would choose to wedge himself in between two guys peeing, instead of waiting 10 seconds for an adjacent stall.

Hell is a pretty nice place then, I reckon, if it's full of good people.