Military Appreciation Month in Seville

I have had a few other subject oriented posts about the Military Appreciation Month tribute. This is just some other shots from that night...

"Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex)

Marine Forces Reserve Show Band and Brass Band

The main music for the Evenings in Seville for Military Appreciation Week was the Marine Forces Reserve Show Band and Brass Band! I was really surprised. I thought it was going to be really ho-hum. But did they surprise us! Wonderful show. I would go to hear them again.

"There are these rare moments when musicians touch something sweeter than they've ever found before..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ian McEwan (Saturday)

McGuires Irish Band

Part of the Evenings in Seville for Military Appreciation Month, was the McGuires Irish Band.

Not until this evening did I realize how a bagpipe effects me emotionally. When they began playing Amazing Grace, it brought tears to my eyes. Honest. It was so moving.

A tribute to our service men

I grew up in the service. My father was an Air Force veteran. He served in Viet Nam. I remember it well. I was young and scared. And PROUD.

These images were taken during the Military Appreciation Month ceremony at Evening in Old Seville, Pensacola FL.

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. "
¸.•*´¨`♥ George Orwell

Mass Kunfuzion {Part 1 of 3}

Another beautiful evening in the park for Evenings at Old Seville. There is always a large, happy crowd ready for music and visiting with friends.

Mass Kunfuzion the band



"Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it" ¸.•*´¨`♥ Spanish Proverb



Vendors always interesting



Extravagance What a setting


Janet We had met her at bands on the beach



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Mass Kunfuzion {Part 2 of 3}

Historic home close to where we parked



"Does it count as gossip, she said, if you just know those people would go & do something like that? " ¸.•*´¨`♥ StoryPeople



"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?" ¸.•*´¨`♥ Ralph Waldo Emerson



"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the waythey have to live than other things do." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Willa Cather


"Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon" ¸.•*´¨`♥ Winnie the Pooh


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Mass Kunfuzion {Part 3 of 3}

FSU Tasteful



"Where we love is home,Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



Red Boots Little girl singer



"O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Jim Morrison

Loverly times {Part 1 of 6}

We have taken to the weeknight concerts offered here like fish to water. Tuesdays. Thursdays. And there is talk about a once a month concert on Palafox Pier that we have yet to attend. This particular event was on July 16 and Zydeco Zoo was the band.

We parked where we could, which turned out to be up the street. Walking to Seville Square we passed the Old Christ Church built in 1832.

“The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity” ¸.•*´¨`♥ Matthew Henry



"I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry Miller


Eventually we got to the park with chairs, picnic basket and drinks. There was a small ceremony before the band started with some troops from the Naval Base. The sailors marched with such precision. It was beautiful.

Sailors Love them


Not long after they marched, the band began to play. They were really pretty good.

Washboard Did you know it was an instrument?


"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Leopold Stokowski


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Loverly times {Part 2 of 6}

Sometimes these events aren't about the music. It is about the people. The crowd.

Yellow dots staying cool



Lulu's He went to the new one. Lulu is Jimmy Buffet's sister. We have dined at the old location.



Pretty toes colorful tatto



Georgia Fan


Disco ball Yes. I said DISCO ball!


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Loverly times {Part 3 of 6}

" 'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Rudyard Kipling



The Dancer


“I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.” ¸.•*´¨`♥ Bob Dylan



"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Stephen King


"Hoping something will happen soon, so she can sit down & watch it with a fresh bowl of popcorn. " ¸.•*´¨`♥ StoryPeople


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