I wanted to go from the most desolate feeling of cold winter to the rhythm of the earliest signs of spring in one short piece of guitar music. And match this to photographs of taken during the past week of snow, ice, buds and early flowers. Something for Valentines Day. I started by listening to the rhythm of Oye Coma Va by the great Tito Puente, but I think that is rather hard to spot now. I recommend a listen to this classic tune by Tito and, of course, by Santana. The photos can be found at www.flickr.com in the set called Snow in February 2012. Its played on my Tanglewood acoustic guitar tuned to open d using a heavy glass slide amplified through a Vox DA5 set to clean. I recorded a rhythm on my Boss RC3 looper bashing out the rhythm on a wooden cutting board with a wooden spoon and shaking a plastic container half full of barley. I used a Blue Snowball mic and Audacity for mixing.