Loose Leaf Notes

Wordless Wednesday

I mourn the loss of turquoise and the richness of royal periwinkle, powder cobalt and cornflower Sometimes black looks navy Sometimes in the morning I catch a glimpse of aquamarine but by afternoon it’s all gone white I imagine gray as baby blue and dream about the passion of indigo I write about a robin’s […]

I just got finished posting about how happy I was to be in New Orleans when there was no Mardi Gras going on because I thought it would be too overwhelming and was probably overrated like Times Square on New Year’s Eve. The day after typing that we took a trolley and shuttle to Mardi […]

While in New Orleans, we stayed in the French Quarter at the Lamothe House, a Victorian hotel tucked in between old oak trees and within walking distance of Frenchman Street Jazz Clubs and the French Market. The Lamoth House was built by a wealthy sugar cane plantation owner in 1839, with renovation improvements taking place […]

We got the historic horse and buggy tour of the French Quarter and learned that Bourbon Street is not named after liquor but after a famous French family. Our guide talked while reining her horse about the Creole and Cajun traditions, pecans and pralines (pecan candy) and how po boys were invented here. She told […]

1. The first sign that we were in the south while on our spring break road trip was when Joe spotted a dead armadillo in the road. 2. Somewhere driving through Alabama or Georgia, we gained an hour, which was like the gift that kept on giving and put a whole new perspective on the […]

They might have named Fairhope “Utopia” because that was what its creators had in mind when they designed it around the turn of the twentieth century. Situated along the shores of Mobile Bay, the Alabama town was founded as a colony by a group following economist Henry George for the purpose of “establishing and conducting […]

Fairhope Alabama in April smells like honeysuckle and magnolia and the people who live here don’t need to buy Easter lilies at the grocery store because they grow in their backyards this time of year. We were drawn to the fountain at the pier and to the girls posing in Easter dresses. I had forgotten […]

Happy Easter /__Shadow Shot Sunday

– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press as “Theatre Guild Presents The Importance of Being Ernest” on April 2, 2015.  A Victorian comedy might sound like an oxymoron, but playwright Oscar Wilde pulled it off with The Importance of Being Ernest, and The Floyd Community Theatre Guild (FCTG) did it justice. The three […]

1. Flowers in pots?  Pot holes that is:  Check out THIS Guerrilla Mosaic artist’s work. 2. I wonder if our new Rhode Island Red chicks will have a New England accented chirp and why THESE chickens are pink. 3. A line that made me laugh during the Floyd Community Theatre Guild’s performance of The Importance […]