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Lullaby

This is another lullaby for my sweet grandson, Sammy, in Australia. May butterflies fly in your dreams!

Theme 180: Lullaby 3 for Little Sam

Here are the 24 most common butterfly species found in Bear Creek, according to my 31 years of record keeping. It is part of a presentation I am making for the Bear Creek Nature Center, in case they’re interested. Following these photos are two new pieces of music, so you can listen while you peruse the butterflies.

Theme 176

Theme 179

New Music

Just this once, if you enjoy any of this original verse and music, drop a comment with your state or country. I get thousands of “downloads” of music from the U.S. and many other countries, but I’d love to know where some of you are.

For music I’ve added a couple older pieces that I’ve revised, and a new one that, thank goodness, is only 39 seconds long.

Good old Theme 38

And Theme 36, which I call “Sweetness.”

New, Theme 175

Three Rags

These oughta clean things up. Check it out.

Theme 142: Oil Rag

Theme 166: Wash Rag

Theme 165: Dish Rag

Yet More Music

More pleasant distractions for your life. Have fun!

Theme 65

Theme 133 “Boop-ee-Doop”

Theme 85

More songs

Here are three more pieces for piano and orchestra. Hope they fit somewhere in your brain!

Theme 91 – 2019

Theme 50 – 2017

Theme 133 – Nov. 2020

Piano Suite #1

Three short compositions for you pianists to figure out. Have fun!

I call this “Everywhere I Go.”

Theme 51

Theme 118

Songs and Flowers

South Texas is famous for the roadside flowers that Ladybird Johnson championed, but there are, of course, huge fields that are not planted, but simply flourish and bloom, each in its season (the top two photos). Beautiful stuff. And to go with it, two more pieces, the first a piano bit with a little orchestral backup, and the second an extended variation on a theme by Neil Young’s “If God Loved Me.” At least that’s what it reminds me of.