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Pennies From Heaven
26 September 2024
Although there is the 1981 movie with Steve Martin and Bernadette Petters by the same name, when we hear Pennies from Heaven it's the song we think of. Bob Hoskins is usually singing it in Dennis Potters adaption of the movie for the BBC.
Pennies From Heaven. iPhone 15 Pro Max 6.8mm at f1.8, 1/609 seconds and ISO 64. Processed in Adobe Camera Raw.
Wikipedia remembers the 1936 American popular song was composed by by Arthur Johnston and with lyrics by Johnny Burke. Bing Crosby first sang it with Georgie Stoll and his Orchestra in the 1936 film of the same name.
Johnny Burke did a nice job. Here's just the first verse:
Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven
Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven?
You'll find your fortune's fallin' all over the town
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down.It's been "raining" a lot for us this year. We mentioned our August trip to the ER and hospital. Yesterday it was Joyce's turn. Getting off the bus with two bags of groceries (we still can't drive), I=we see a woman on the ground surrounded by adults from the grammar school on our block.
It was Joyce, who had taken a fall trying to walk to the store. The third fall in 12 hours.
They'd already called 911, which (having called them only the day before) we realized left me a moment to put the groceries away so they wouldn't spoil.
She spent the rest of the day in the ER and was kept in the hospital overnight.
So it was a quiet morning around here waiting for her return in the afternoon. We paid a few last bills from Mom's estate and took them to the mailbox before the 2 p.m. pickup.
Which is when we saw these pennies stacked up on top of the mailbox.
We're in the habit of leaving found pennies where we found them, happy to think someone less fortunate than ourselves will find them lucky.
But we never pass up a shot when we see one. And, you know, we always seem to see one. Turn your umbrella upside down -- and take off your lens cap. "You'll find your fortune's fallin' all over the town," as the song goes.