In early April my Asheville Potter Son, Josh Copus, posted a Facebook status update that read: “Kangaroo steaks on the barbie and Australia rules footie on the tellie, big Friday night downunder.” During that same time he started blogging, documenting the month spent with his fellow Asheville potter mate, Dustin Fowler, as the first wood-fire potters […]
1. Sparrows are the chipmunks of birds. They’re of the same stripe. 2. It’s like gluing macaroni to a piece of cardboard and painting it gold. ~ Tom Waitts on songwriting 3. Looking at field guide of birds with my just-turned-six year old grandson Bryce, I read the words “Eastern Screech Owl,” and he said, […]
Wordless Wednesday
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press newspaper on May 8, 2014 The Artist’s Table, a new gallery café, opened on May 2nd over The Harvest Moon Food Store in Floyd. The space, which was previously occupied by Natasha’s Market Café, Over the Moon Gallery and the Moonlight Lounge, is now one entity […]
When I wake up in the morning I sometimes have the luxury of waiting to see what impulse will override my urge to drag myself out of bed and, instead, cause me to throw the covers off and jump out of it. On this day it was a red bird in the tulip poplar outside […]
First I was captivated by the Captive Eddies when they played Thursday night at Dogtown Roadhouse. Then on Friday Spoon Fight dished up some rockin’ dance tunes. I think of the Captive Eddies as Beatlesque meet Bob Marley. The lead singer even looks like George Harrison (as does his twin brother). On tour, and in-between […]
~ The following first appeared in The Floyd Press newspaper on May 8, 2014 with a larger selection of photos. The Partnership for Floyd held its annual Earth Day Celebration at the Floyd Ecovillage on Saturday. The sunny warm weather was a perfect backdrop for nature hikes, scavenger hunts and much more. Organizers estimated […]
1. A recent status update seen on Facebook: I just killed a spider with a copy of Charlotte’s Web. 2. Speaking of irony, check out this croc with a croc in its mouth and other ironic moments caught on camera HERE. 3. My mind is a hot air balloon / I’m trying to launch / […]
My youngest with his youngest. ________Wordless Wednesday
It was a warm reception for Alwyn Moss and her art exhibit at the Village Center in Warm Hearth Village, a Blacksburg retirement community where Alwyn is a resident. My dear and longtime friend, writer poet, animal rights activist, environmentalist, and past Waldorf kindergarten teacher says this in her artist statement: I began painting […]
A single strand of moon Loose curl of light First silver hair in a shock of dark night ________Colleen Redman____Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
Post notes: All the photos above were taken recently at The Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke. Photo #2 is from the Martin Johnson exhibit ______Shadow Shot Sunday
