Loose Leaf Notes

Shadow Shot Sunday

1. How to make a swing HERE. 2. Seen on Facebook: I started a new exercise routine. Every day I do diddley squats. 3. This weekend, during my first visit to Spikenard Honeybee Farm and Sanctuary, I held a honeybee in my cupped hands and was promised $1,000 if it stung me. It didn’t because it was a […]

Remember all the beautiful pictures I’ve posted here of Floyd’s mountain views, fields of hay, rushing creeks and wildflowers?  Well, that beauty is in jeopardy because of a proposed gas pipeline that would literally cut through Floyd and not serve it in any way. I kept hearing the proposed line described as a “42 inch […]

– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 21, 2014 with a larger spread of photos.  Organizers of the 4th annual Floyd Auto Fair were thrilled with the good weekend weather.  “It rained for about a half an hour Friday night, just long enough to keep the dust down,” said KC Murphy, […]

Shadow Shot Sunday

1. My psychedelic days are over, but a camera and a pinwheel can still provide a cheap thrill. 2. See what I mean HERE. 3. I’m so sensitive that just putting on sunglasses can sometimes make me feel altered, like I’m stoned on a foreign substance. 4.  It’s a twirling whirl of flirts in petal […]

Butterflies and blooms. What could be better? I’m dizzy with the colors of zinnia and the glitter of the great spangled fritillary flittering all over my yard. Brazened by the drunken desire for nectar, the butterflies are no longer resistant to close proximity of my camera and some have even landed on me. The black […]

Summer sail Golden spun A skipping stone in a sea of heaven   ______This is all I got to see of the Super Moon this month because it was so cloudy when the moon was full.   Imaginary Garden with Real Toads

It happened at the tail end of the Floyd Family Day Jubilee.  At first I thought I was at the wrong dance when they started playing “Don’t Worry Be Happy” instead of Pharrell Williams’ contagious song, but that turned out to just be the warm-up song. I tried to get dancers to drop buckets of […]

  – The following are answers to questions from a writer’s blog hop that I was invited to participate in by Polly Brown from A Year to Think it Over.  What am I writing/working on now? I recently finished a feature on a woman who hiked the Camino, a 500 mile pilgrimage through Spain and […]

1. What we have most abundantly in the garden right now: Mud 2. Last year around this time I had a Thirteen Thursday titled “The Latest Dirt is Mud.” It was about last year’s epic Floydfest rain and mud, complete with pictures. See HERE. 3. I’ve been calling this summer “The Summer of the Nerf […]

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