This is the real Edelweiss. It is a tundra flower that grows above 9000 feet and is not the national flower of Austria. In fact no one really paid attention to it until Rogers and Hammerstein wrote a song about it!
Posts Tagged ‘sound of music’
The Notorious Flower
Friday, June 12th, 2009The Hills Are Alive
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
…with tourists in tacky buses, traversing the city and countryside in search of the vital locations for the filming of “THE SOUND OF MUSIC“!!
I am on the bus.
Yes,the movie came out when I was merely 15, and I had a date to the Loma Theater, Point Loma (where it played for 2 years) with Andy Andeck! Sigh, to picture his arm around my shoulders, going numb scenario…my first big crush.
Flash ahead 6 years, and I have already been an organist for 8 years and played many a “here comes the bride” at weddings , so I chose the Wedding March from the Sound of Music for mine (to STEVE)!
So, I got to see the Church they used, and they played the CD on the bus, and I was in “Nostalgic Land”. Pure schmaltzzzzzzzzzzz and I loved it!
Moooo…ving On
Friday, June 5th, 2009
Say “cheeeeeese!”
We found it, in the middle of no where – the Emmental Cheese Factory! It is a beautiful alpine factory sitting atop a large green pasture and it was quite an education.
The cows drop off their milk, some enzymes are added, it curdles and it pressed into molds, and aged, and aged. Bubbles in the curing process seek to escape, and wa la….swiss cheese (sounds
like Steve)!
We are in Garmisch, Germany now. Tomorrow we visit King Ludwig II’s crazy castle (think Disneyland on a mountain peak).
Then on to Salzburg. Mozart, Sound of Music, struedal and beer? We will find out!