The recording session went very well this afternoon. Tim Doran and myself met with the engineer at 3pm and did three tunes. First up was a commercial for Ritz Camera that's called "Capture Your World" That title is this company's logo/ slogan and I wrote a song all around the fact that Ritz Camera takes care of all your 35mm film and digital pictures. They make not only 4x6 pictures, for both medias but also a full uncropped size that is 4 1/2 by 6 and big 6x6 prints for only 39 cents each. The song came out wonderfully. The second song was a upbeat Christmas song called "If Christmas Took a Holiday". What would happen if Christmas got tired of all the trite commercialism of its grand day and decided to simply not show up on December 25th? Well again, the orchestration that Tim created was pretty wonderful. We found a great setting on the massive Kurtzweiler keyboard that creates a combination of instruments: strings, bass, French Horn and woodwinds. The third song was based on a poem I had written for my sister Annette way back in 1977. We were attending an American history class at a local city college and the professor had simply gone off on a tangent about the crazy spiral of coffee prices. Getting bored with this very quickly, I started to write a poem about my experience of having a very unexpected snow fall on me on a cold spring day. It was so unexpected and so incredibly beautiful that I simply had to write about it. So I did. The song is called "On Tuesday, I Saw Snowflakes" and came out really wonderfully. Well on the 19th of this month, we goi in and record more songs for the "Traveling Companion" I am very anxious and excited about this and really want this project finished so that Tim Doran and myself can begin to market it. Well, this is an extra entry for today, but I wanted to give you all an update of my morning blog entry. Have a great evening and great day tomorrow. Until then... Ciao!