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Gone with the frost

Listen to the fox’s bark,

Moonlight glowing through the dark,

Evil things will soon be lost,

Melting away like silver frost.

SRB

“Gone with the frost” composed and performed with guitar and violins by Sanford Ross Bender on December 14, 2024.

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Thursday morning

“Dog walk” drawn with pen & ink by Sanford R. Bender in 2008.
“Thursday morning” composed and performed with guitar, concertina, and glockenspiel by Sanford R. Bender on December 12, 2024.
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Princess Meow

“My royal cat” drawn with colored pencil and oil pastels by Sanford Ross Bender on December 9. 2024.
“Princess Meow” was composed and performed with guitar, concertina, and violin by Sanford Ross Bender on December 8, 2024.

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No longer in thrall

“Daylilies” painted with watercolor and ink by Sanford Ross Bender
“No longer in thrall” composed and performed with guitar, banjo, and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on December 6, 2024.

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Streamside

“Deep green bend” painted with watercolor and gouache by Sanford Ross Bender so many summers ago
“Streamside” composed with guitars, banjo, and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on November 29, 2024

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The questions children ask

“Crescent weir from the steep bank” photographed by Sanford Ross Bender on November 28, 2024
“The questions children ask” composed and performed with guitar, banjo, and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on November 29, 2024.
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This is why

“Hinoki Cypress” photographed in my garden by Sanford Ross Bender on November 24, 2024.
“This is why” composed and performed with guitar, banjo, and concertina by Sanford Ross Bender on November 24, 2024.
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Missing Maine

“Autumn magnificence” in Baxter State Park, Maine photographed by Sanford Ross Bender on Sunday, October 6, 2024
“Missing Maine” composed and performed on guitar by Sanford Ross Bender on November 15, 2024
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Take your time and tell the truth

“Take your time and tell the truth” composed and performed with guitar, slide guitar, and harmonica by Sanford Ross Bender on November 10, 2024.

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The barest of minimums

“Walking pier” photographed at Harvey’s beach in Old Saybrook, Connecticut on October 20, 2024
:The barest of minimums” composed and performed with guitar and clarinet by Sanford Ross Bender on October 23, 2024

This instrumental may sound plaintive, but the more I listen, start to hear it as the breath of victory that arrives after an exhausting ordeal. It is an “on the road” piece in which the clarinet is only a student rental instrument that I play at a time when coincidentally my recording equipment also happens to not be performing properly. The guitar and clarinet improvise with sympathetic melodies that will never sound the same again; like hearing an invisible owl floating through the mist. SRB