1. Mystery solved. On the day the latest Rolling Stone magazine came out with a story on Jackson Browne shown on the front cover, I got a generous amount of hits on my blog via searches (mostly wanting to know if he’s had plastic surgery) that landed people on THIS post. 2. It was hard […]
Wordless Wednesday / Photo of the Week / I Heart Macro
My Boston Mass cousin Gerry and his wife Marie didn’t expect to meet so many fellow New Englanders in the Floyd County mountains. They were passing through from a vacation in Tennessee and I promised I’d show them some Floyd nightlife. After seeing our cabin off the Parkway and meeting the chickens that Gerry had […]
I don’t know who these people are or if they are real. Some are statues, some are people and some are reflections. My own apparition appears in some of the shots, taken at the HirshhornScluptureMuseum in D.D. The piece was made by Dan Graham with two way mirrors, steel wood and stone. More on the […]
Below are some comments made to WSLS TV’s Katy Love by members of Citizens Preserving Floyd County on the recent development that the Mountain Valley Pipeline proposed by two partner companies would not be coming through Floyd as had previously been announced. “We’re so happy that we were able to stop this pipeline and I […]
1. The first thing Joe said to me Monday morning was, “I just dreamt my dream house.” Duh. Of course it was a dream house because he dreamt it, we later realized. 2. I recently sent my sister Kathy the picture above of the rug she braided me and our new kitchen furniture with a […]
Wordless Wednesday / Photo of the Week
At the Live Butterfly Garden in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, I learned that blue butterflies are common in South America. The Common Blue Morpho is a trickster, though. It’s brown on the outside and only shows its iridescent blue when it opens its wings. Blue Morpho’s are not shy butterflies and are likely […]
Students at Springhouse Community School created a story script and crankie show based on an interview with a local farmer who recently placed his farm under a conservation easement with the New River Land Trust. They built the crankie, an old time instrument for scrolling art and screening shadow puppets, with the help of project […]
While in D.C. visiting the art museums, we made a point to go to the Hirshhorn Museum. You can’t miss the Hirshhorn because the building is round. Upstairs, we saw an exhibit called Speculative Forms, which was displayed on two floors. Some of the pieces made me gasp, crave to touch or chuckle out loud […]
Even the escalators seem like part of the art installations at the Hirshhorn Art Museum in D.C. Is that a real bathroom sign or part of the exhibit? Hey, where can I get linoleum like that? I love larger than life Alice in Wonderland installations that stretch the boundaries of reality. According to exhibiting artist […]
1. Time feels shorter because at my age it really is, and solitude is like sugar, something I can’t get enough of because it’s an easy rut and more of it isn’t necessarily what I really need. 2. The best compliment comment of the week came with my shadow shot photography at the art galleries […]
