Cheery Cherries!

First cherry harvest!

My piano students walk past our little cherry tree (about 4.5 feet tall) on the path up to the house. Our neighbor told me to cover the cherries as soon as the first one started to turn red. I put a thin bird net over the tree. Several students commented such as: "There is something on your tree", "Somebody put something on your tree", and my favorite, "Somebody lost their kite on your tree".

There are enough cherries for a small cobbler. Maybe next year there will be enough to make a pie!

April Piano Recital

Erickson Piano Studio had 2 great piano recitals at Grace Fellowship Church on April 8th and 9th. The kids and adults played really well! The photo is from the Saturday recital.

Many of our students are practicing to play at the MMTA Districts in September at Truman State University. Yeah!

Musical Cicadas!

This afternoon I was preparing for my Little Notes music class that I am offering this summer (theme: Nature's Music). There will be activities such as: different animal noises and movements, dances, fingerplays, and of course singing! I was making lesson plans and singing about "Wiggley Woo", the worm. As I am working on the songs and activities the Cicadas were drowning out my practicing with their own music. At first this really frustrated me! Later, I thought about my lesson plans and the different sounds in nature. Every bird, frog, cicada, worm, etc. has it's own song and movement. Each one is part of the eco-system and each one is important in its own special way. The cicadas will be with us for a few more weeks and then their songs will stop, but the music of nature will always be with us.