Image © 2009, Paul Pomeroy
I couldn't find anyone else's music that went that well with plums, so here's another one of mine instead even though it's not a plum or about a plum or even vaguely related to anything plummish although it actually is about something ...
The song But That's Another Story is rather different for me. It began as a piece inspired by Spiritual (composed by Josh Haden and performed by his father, Charlie Haden, and Pat Metheny on their 1996 album, Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)). In working on it, though, it kept bringing to mind a photographer friend who spends a lot of time hiking in the mountains near where she lives. She takes amazing photographs from vistas she spends a lot of time and energy getting to.
But these are not the only pictures she takes as she also goes two or more times a year to Africa (and more recently, Asia and India) as part of a medical team providing free health care. In stark contrast to her wide open, panoramic mountain photographs the pictures she takes of the people she cares for are almost always up close and very personal--you can often times see her reflected in their eyes.
Every one of those people, and even more so every one she is not able to help, breaks her heart a little. Knowing this, you begin to understand the hiking and the almost reverential photos of the mountains. She is restoring her faith and replenishing her serenity. She is mending her heart so that she is able to go back and do it again. If you listen to but that's another story with this in mind you'll understand why it reminds me of her...
A note about the music: This was recorded using a $130 keyboard I got at Costco and version 1 of Garageband (which came with my iMac when I bought it back in 2003). A little better equipment would certainly have helped. However, I just do this sort of thing because I enjoy it on occasion and, though I've spent quite a bit of time playing, I've never really spent much on learning how to play. In the end, it's that second factor that has had the greatest effect here.