Fish Hawk Lake with Poem "The Picture" By Bob Yoder & Music by Eva Cassidy "What a Wonderful World"

Fish Hawk Lake with a Poem "The Picture" By Bob Yoder & Music by Eva Cassidy ***Please see below... Song "What a Wonderful World" Pic's include; The very scenic Fish Hawk Lake located N.W. of Vernonia, Oregon.
My cousins... Bob "Toby" and Marylou purchaed a single lake front parcel in 1979 and began building their third and final "DREAM HOME" During the building process they purchased two additional parcels. Thus with the completion of this home in 1983 now making this location their Lil' corner of the World or better yet a "Lil' PEACE of Heaven" LOL!
Shots include: greenery, awesome mirror images, Lake Front custom built homes, pontoon & paddle boating, kayaking, Relatives, Family and Friends, dogs and water fowl.

***Some additional info.*** on the Late Eva Cassidy...
she was born Feb. 2, 1963. She was the third of four children born to Hugh and Barbara Cassidy. From an early age, she displayed artistic and musical talent. When she was nine years old, her father taught her to play the guitar, and she began to play and sing at family gatherings.

While a student at Bowie High School, she sang with a local band called Stonehenge, and received considerable praise.

At the age of eighteen, Cassidy began her professional career, singing and playing guitar in a Washington, D.C., area band, called Easy Street. This band performed in a variety of styles, at weddings, corporate parties, and pubs.

During the summer of 1983, Cassidy sang and played guitar, six days per week, at Wild World, in Maryland. Her brother Dan was also a member of this working band. Throughout the 1980s, Cassidy worked with a number of other bands.

In 1986, she met (bassist and recording engineer) Chris Biondo, who encouraged her and helped her find work as a backup singer for various acts. In 1990, Biondo and Cassidy hired the so-called "Eva Cassidy Band", composed of Chris Biondo, Lenny Williams, Keith Grimes and Raice McLeod, and she began to perform frequently in the Washington area.

In 1992, Biondo played a tape of Cassidy's voice for Chuck Brown. Best known as the "Godfather of Go-go", Brown is also a jazz and blues vocalist. This led to the first commercial recording of Cassidy, the duet album with Chuck Brown, The Other Side; which featured performances of classic songs such as "Fever", Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child" and Cassidy's signature tune "Over the Rainbow". The album was released and distributed by Liaison Records, the label that also released Brown's Go-go albums. The duet CD attracted the attention of various record companies, but the offers all required Cassidy to pigeonhole herself within a single style (e.g., pop or jazz), something she adamantly refused to do.[citation needed]

In 1993 Eva Cassidy was first honored by the Washington area music community when she was awarded two Wammie awards for "Female Vocalist Roots/Traditional R&B" and "Vocalist Jazz/Traditional." The next year she was chosen to perform for the awards ceremony.

In January 1996, Cassidy recorded the album Live at Blues Alley, about which The Washington Post later commented that "she could sing anything and make it sound like the only music that mattered". [1] Cassidy was unhappy with her singing on the album, because she had a bad cold on the night of the recording; she began recording a studio album which was eventually released as Eva by Heart posthumously in 1997.

During a promotional event for the Live at Blues Alley CD in July 1996, Cassidy noticed an ache in her hips, which she attributed to stiffness from painting murals. The pain persisted, and, a few weeks later, Cassidy was diagnosed with melanoma. By the time of her diagnosis, the cancer had spread throughout her body. Cassidy's health deteriorated rapidly, and her final performance was in September 1996. At the performance, she had used a walker to reach the stage, sang "What a Wonderful World" in front of an audience of friends, and was subsequently admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital.[citation needed]

Eva Cassidy died on November 2, 1996, at the age of 33. She was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Washington Area Music Association.

According to her wishes, Cassidy's body was cremated. Her ashes were sprinkled on the shores of St. Mary's Lake, a nature preserve near California, MD.

What a "GIFT" she left for all of us to ENJOY & TREASURE!

God Bless her and May she be Resting in Peace!

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[420witchdoctor]

And I used to live there, in the big brown house up in the trees on the hill. The coastal region mountains are gorgeous, but the problem with that area is the flooding, and also it's about 50 miles from any kind of work. You better make MONEY to live out there. Have they paved the back road toward the houses out back yet?

[daveb6t1]

About the flooding, I heard some rescent stories from my cousins Bob and Marylou who built their home and have lived here since the early 80's. Fortunate for them it has never reached into their home. He worked for N.W. Natural Gas in the Jewell/Mist area for many years. As for the road info... I'm not too sure? I was just a visitor.

[angeluvr8]

every time I watch this ..I feel like its home, a calling of the heart. Perfect song and voice stylings for this vid as well.. thank you Dave for putting so much into your vids for all to enjoy..I know I sure do!

BEAUTIFUL job <3 ....

[daveb6t1]

I thoroughly enjoy making and posting these videos for others such as yourself to enjoy and from this very kind comment, it sounds like it's working. ;-)

Thank you Susan very much!

[229095]

Dave,

Wow......I'm going to reply to this gorgeous video, but I'm going to have to do it in a private message, because it evoked a heavier reaction for me, due to personal....stuff....than I could've ever really suspected. You sent it to me, I started watching it, and the floodgates opened, as it were. ~Jeff

[daveb6t1]

Hey Jeff, I'm left a little speechless here and that is not normally me! I hope things are okay my friend and this video didn't do lasting harm?

[quilting830]

Thanks to Bob for the moving poem and Dave for the video. It really celebrates the sense of paradise at the lake and the special hospitality of Bob and Lou.

[tinasjak]

Beautiful video! Some amazing pictures set to an amazing song:) Thank you for sharing!

[420witchdoctor]

BTW, I forgot to say that I remember Bob and MaryLou. I did yardwork for them.

[420witchdoctor]

Yeah, I lived there during the flood of '96, and 202 was washed out and so we had to take the gravel roads all the way out to Deer Island to get to Highway 30 so we could even get to town. Subaru Brats work good out there.

[daveb6t1]

We are so very BLESSED here...

A Lil' "PEACE" of Heaven I believe.

So glad you enjoyed it Jeffro and thanks for the comment.

[jeffro1234567891]

Wow! Now thats the Oregon I love!

Lots of green. Thanks Dave...