I look up words like a single woman reads want-ads looking for an eligible bachelor as though my poem were a lover looking for a partner and I was a matchmaker setting up a date ________________________ More dVerse poets HERE.
A Flower Bed A Handsome chair Needs a Coat of Pink Paint
First Day of School. You’ve heard of dancing your socks off? Post notes: The first shot was taken while covering local kindergarteners’ first day of school for the paper this week. The second was the result of dancing to The Kind at the Pine Tavern Saturday night. More Sunday Shadow Shots HERE.
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on July 28, 2011 and on the paper’s online site HERE. Tucked behind the 4th green of Primland’s award-winning golf course and overlooking the Dan River gorge is the new Golden Eagle Tree House, which was dedicated during a weekend event that also included the opening […]
1. I like the title of Steven Tyler’s new book Is the Noise in My Head Bothering You? 2. Considering that Tyler lives in the same small Massachusetts town as my sister when he’s not in L.A., right near where I grew up, and considering that I once stood as close as couple of yards […]
Crepe-myrtle is summer’s answer to lilacs in the spring happy girls with red berry pom poms shaking in the breeze while ironweed purple and goldenrod yellow in September school colors play the field _______________ More dVerse Open Link poetry HERE.
~ The following photos were taken while attending Floyd’s Friday Night Jamboree street scene (7/29) with my sister and her husband who were visiting from Massachusetts. The alley at Bell’s Gallery. In a nod to The Beverly Hillbillies is Beverly Hills Produce on a the back of a pick-up truck owned by a woman named […]
Shadow Shot Sunday
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 4, 2011 The Imagine Tent teen scene at Floydfest was conceived of two years ago during Floydfest Revival when a group of local teens, who were wandering the festival grounds, waved down festival staffer Joe Klein, wanting a ride in his golf cart. After […]
1. Funny how the verbs “burst” and “bust” seem related. 2. Speaking of ‘bust,” THIS is my favorite video clip taken at Floydfest, titled “Bryce Busts a Move.” 3. When I first saw THIS trapeze attraction at Floydfest I thought ‘you couldn’t pay me to that.’ After I saw the net below it and watched […]
I watched Eustace Conway put up a teepee in the Global Village in about eight minutes. Conway is a naturalist and primitive living teacher who was the subject of a book by Elizabeth Gilbert before Eat, Pray, Love, called The Last American Man. Watch a video clip HERE. Sun and fun, sons and a grandson […]
