The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 25, 2013. Music lovers and supporters of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival (VBRMF) were treated to “Classics Around the World” in a final pre-festival concert to benefit the upcoming festival, scheduled to take place at various venues in Floyd from May 30 to June 9th. […]
I’m busy writing my TEDx talk (of sorts) about our TEDxFloyd talks for the local paper. In the meantime, here’s the latest from the primary TEDxFloyd event organizer Hari: The livestream is still there for ten days (I think). The videos (each talk separately) will be edited and loaded onto TEDx youtube channel–this is a […]
The mantra is the vehicle that knows the best shortcut when my mind is downtown traffic __________Shadow Shot Sunday_____dVerse Poets Pub______
~ The following is a selection of photos from a group that first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 25, 2013. NRV Master Gardener Coordinator, Wendy Silverman, presented an exhibit on identifying nutritional deficiencies in plants at the annual Earth Day Celebration, hosted by the Partnership for Floyd at the Floyd EcoVillage. Silverman said […]
1. We have our own West Side Story playing out at our house. After introducing four new hens to the existing five in the hen house, we now have two rival gangs, which I’ve been calling The Jets and the Sharks. 2. Dude is the new daddy-o. 3. Blackberry is to iphone what Myspace […]
_________________Floyd Earth Day 2013 ___________Wordless Wednesday
Suspended chandelier in a ceiling of night refracting a prism of starlight ________dVerse Poets Pub
Spring is like a Seurat painting, a pointillistic work of art. Trees fill in with dotted buds in shades of rust and green. Some unfold into all the colors of petals. I especially love the dogwood buds that look like little baskets of eggs. I check them everyday and watch their progress like I […]
Sun kissed lip curved at the hip a full bodied cup of Camellia Sinensis Unfurled leaves waft waves of flavor Holding tight to cup handles tea lovers swoon Porcelain pots simmer in a Victorian tea parlor Readers see the future in lingering loose leaves Haiku with high tea Best to sip slowly Don’t brew the […]
1. Is the word negligible related to “not legible? Is a negligee a negligible piece of clothing? Is negligence the opposite of vigilance? 2. I discovered years ago that I can only roller skate or ice skate going counter clockwise around the rink. If I try to skate clockwise, I become clumsy and fall. 3. […]
Watch my favorite Dragon Slayers video HERE. ______________________Wordless Wednesday
Unzipped moon slips out of its skin strips down to a sliver from its full-bodied figure and bares its last vestige of light _____________________dVerse Poets Pub
