Up early this morning, found Kim and Charlie walking the EOU campus, joined them to look at the new landscaping and flower gardens, then did the customary cemetery walks and traversed the “jungle/swamp” between EOU and the Forest Service offices.
Upon returning home, we decided to do farmers’ market, where we lingered for some time as one of our very favorite and arguably the best jazz ensemble in northeast Oregon was performing. It was the Matt Cooper X-tet (we are told that the “X” indicates the unknown numbers of people who will show up), with Matt Cooper on keyboards, Sharon Porter on vocals, Greg Johnson on saxophone, and Teun Fetz on drums. These people are or have been EOU music faculty, as well. Matter of fact, the first-ever EOU concert I attended at EOU in 1995 was a classical piano recital by Matt Cooper; that was when I introduced myself and he told me that he had just released a new CD. Hey, we also came home from farmers’ market with blueberries, raspberries and green sting beans.
