Nice coincidence

Still thinking about California, San Francisco, its artistic communities and its extraordinary clouds,  I notice that the blogger of one of the "Blogs I follow" (Some Landscapes: see left hand column of this page) has just published a post about a piece of contemporary music that's inspired by the mists that linger over the San Francisco area. It's entitled Fog Tropes and you can click on the audio links to hear the music. It's good!

Talking of music, I've had an email from the Music and Beyond team boasting of the success of this year's festival in Ottawa:

Attendance this year surpassed 35,000, an increase of over 11% from 2011. Feedback from our surveys was overwhelmingly glowing with 99.7% stating they were satisfied with the event this year and 96% reporting a high level of satisfaction.

I didn't participate in the survey myself this year, but I'm pleased to hear about that.