This month marks the 1 year anniversary of these photo journal posts, and I still enjoy making them. It helps me build gratitude and it’s fun. I was lucky this month to have had some very busy gig weekends. It was great, but the downside might be that it makes for a bloated (48 pic) photo album full of music pics. I certainly don’t blame you if you aren’t interested, but if you are, 48 await!

September 1– Labor Day Monday plus a surprisingly cool August means cold water temps and an early “last swim of the season” at my in-law’s pool. Quarryville, PA
September 2- Fun concert with Mission Impossible at the Shannondell community. What a great theater space they have! Audubon, PA
September 3– when you go to Hoover’s Farm Market, you have to visit the chickens! 🐔 Lititz, PA
September 4- Retro movie night with the neighbors at Penn Cenima. I saw The Goonies for the first time. Lititz, PA
September 5– Led a jazz quintet with Bailey and friends during the day………. Intercourse, PA
And led a brass quartet with other friends for a hymn sing at night. Quarryville, PA
September 6- Mini golf with Len and Gina, plus we ran into one of our daughter’s childhood friends, who took the pic. Mountville, PA
September 7- great visit with Ally! From left: Ally, Tam, me, Dad (Mom insisted on taking the pic so she didn’t have to be in it- she hates being in pics!) Towson, MD
September 8– One of my favorites! Miller’s is not just for tourists- they have great Lancaster County dishes and soup like my grandmothers used to make. Lancaster, PA
September 9– Vinyl Groov Alumni reunion lunch! All of us either quit or were fired from the band at some point😂 I played from about 2012-2021. Elizabethtown, PA
September 10– A new pic was “released” from Ally’s wedding. 🙂
September 11– Game night at the neighbors, who actually moved a few miles away last year- but we pretend they didn’t! Lancaster, PA
September 12– Gig #1- a great reunion with my good friend and longtime partner Dave Winter, on his first gig back from some health issues. Intercourse, PA
Gig #2- a wedding near the beach with Modern Luxe. I did a lot of driving this weekend! Cape May, NJ
September 13– Fever Pitch gig for Bedford Breast Cancer Association. Did I mention I did a lot of driving this weekend? Bedford, PA
Still Sept 13 in Bedford with Fever Pitch.
September 14- Hold still bee- I’m trying to use portrait mode 😂 Intercourse, PA
September 15- My town of Lititz is ruining itself because too many home owners are cutting down trees that seem to have no health issues. The sight and the sound make me sick. Lititz, PA
September 16– A million streams!! Too Far is the first track I ever played on with Second Sky. I was in the video too! Check it out here. Internet, Earth
September 17– After many of months of pressure from the kids, Tam and I finally started watching Ted Lasso. They were right- it’s great! The Couch aka Lititz, PA
September 18– Driving Miss Daisy at The Fulton Theater. A great show that seems to end abruptly 😅 Lancaster, PA
September 19– We always say that gigs with D.C & Company are like a family reunion. Dave (D.C.) is a modern day saint-but more on that another time. Lancaster, PA
Dave always plays with his shoes off….
…and the horn section follows his lead.
September 20– Gig #1, a Tailgate Festival with Fever Pitch at Kitchen Kettle Village. Go Birds! Intercourse, PA
One nice thing about not being involved in every song, is that you can sit with your parents and shoot videos of the band.
Gig #2- Oktoberfest house party with Polkadelphia in Downingtown, PA
And just like that it’s back in the car again!! Off to Gig #3…..
…which was a wedding with Modern Luxe near Doylestown, PA
September 21– Gig #1 -recording session with Chad Kinsey for great local songwriter Steve Patterson. Lancaster, PA
Gig #2- Wedding with Modern Luxe at the amazing Elkins Estate. Elkins Park, PA
LOOK AT THIS PLACE!!!!🤯 Elkins Estate
September 22– Chilling out at Speedwell Forge. A lake with an Amish farm in the background- very Lancaster County. Lititz, PA
September 23– Recording some new Halloween duets I wrote for the Holiday Horns brass duo (stream us wherever you get music). From left: Jill (horn), Steve (engineer) me. Parallel Productions, Willow Street, PA
September 24– Apples are in at Kauffman’s ! Too bad the tourist buggy is passing right on by. Bird-In-Hand, PA
September 25– Happy Birthday Mom!!🎉❤️ (1 day early) I’m sure she won’t be too happy that I posted this pic 😅 Lititz, PA
September 26– Spent the day with my good friend Mark Rutter, who hooked me up with some sweet, vintage stereo equipment for “The Lounge”, aka Bailey’s Old Room. Lititz, PA
And then a Funktion gig that night at Hollywood Casino, York PA.
September 27– the wedding avalanche continues with solo, classical trumpet in Lancaster, PA
And then a Modern Lux wedding at The Philadelphia Cricket Club where the Saint Joseph University mascot was invited🤩 Philadelphia, PA
September 28– Harrisburg Symphony’s opening concert of the season was outstanding as usual! Harrisburg, PA
September 29– A Mission Impossible gig in my hometown. It was a fun concert but I look like I just rolled out of bed 5 minutes before we started😱 Lititz, PA
September 30– The Chevy Bolt was definitely the MVP of the month. I did a pretty large amount of driving and ZERO EMISSIONS!🤩 Lititz, PA

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