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Our friend Peg took some photos of us last week. Would you help us pick out a good one? We’re planning to use a couple of these photos for our websites.

If you have the time and inclination, check out the photos below and let us know which are your favorites. You can voice your opinion by posting a comment to this blog. The photos are numbered. Thank you!

The photographer, Peg Libertus is a treasured friend who illuminates our Gainesville adventures. Peg is brilliant and funny, an everflowing fountain of incisive sarcasm and wit. She’s also an amazing writer and editor and is no doubt scrutinizing every jot and tittle of this post. [Hi Peg !]

Among Peg’s many accomplishments is the penning of a theatrical musical called Boxer of Basin Street about a sailor named Boxer on his first shore leave in New Orleans. Back in the late twentieth century Kiki played Margo, a high-class prostitute in Storyville, the legendary red-light district of New Orleans, near the French Quarter. One day we hope to post some of the music from Boxer of Basin Street. Peg’s melodies are on a par with Sondheim, we kid you not. Pegs lyrics are full of beautiful imagery, no doubt a big influence in Kiki’s lyric writing.

Here are the first lines to the opening song from Boxer (a savory little taste of Peg’s amazing gift):

whispered creole litanies

rusted wrought-iron balconies

dripping in the rain

pouring down the drain

on cobblestone

Lord, it’s cold in the wind’s song

who knows where all love’s gone

from New Orleans

in winter

from the Old Town

New Orleans