I serenaded the sunset below the horizon tonight with descending arpeggios – it was lovely and I’ve been wanting do it for such a long time now – I sat on my balcony and played my guitar as the world went to sleep and the night came alive and I had to get up and turn on the balcony light.

Taking deep breathes of fresh ocean air I watched as the sky changed from red to turquoise to purple and the planes landed and took off from John Wayne airport like brightly twinkling stars in the dusk.  All the while trying to keep up the timing and play the right string and fret.  I’m not really at the stage yet where I’m worrying about which fingers I’m using on certain strings and frets, as long as my timing’s decent and I play the right notes then I’m happy.

I went to a flamenco guitar performance this weekend and there were also flamenco dancers, which was very cool and I had trouble focusing on the guitar playing at times because I just wanted to watch the dancing, because let’s admit it: it’s more fun to watch.  Whenever I could pull myself away from watching the dancers I watched the guitarists’ hands and how their fingers were moving, but I don’t think I was able to take a lot away from the experience.  Maybe when I’m more accomplished I can gather more info from watching someone play, at this point it’s all very similar to me.

The dancers had great swirly dresses all red and satiny and polka-dotty with tiers and tiers of large ruffles around the hem and sometimes to my enormous delight they would use castanets! I dunno, I’ve just had a fascination with them since I was a kid.  The performance gave me the idea of being a flamenco dancer for Halloween.  I’m not positive yet though, but I better figure my costume out soon – Halloween’s coming!!! Next weekend I’m gonna put up little Halloween lights, purple, green, & orange, around the balcony and windows and put up some Autumnal decorations.  I LOVE decorating for the holidays.