Loose Leaf Notes

Putting the new floor on the straw bale coop with a little help from our friends.  _______Shadow Shot Sunday / Our World Tuesday

– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 28, 2015. Floyd Folks: Collective Wisdom from a (One Stoplight) Mountain Community is a new 151 page book published by Free Range Press in Willis. The press is the creation of Tommy Bailey and so is the book, a collection of stories about love, […]

1. The only thing the Harvest Moon Cow needs now to be even more ready for summer is a bikini. 2. THIS couple that was made famous for being on the cover of the Woodstock album is still together. 3. In 1969 I was wearing a black floppy hat while riding the subway from Boston […]

_______Wordless Wednesday

-The following first appeared in the May 21, 2015 issue of The Floyd Pres with a larger spread of photos.  The turnout was good for the first annual Mother’s Day Brunch, a fundraiser for Springhouse Community School. School advisors, students and parents worked together to create festive table settings and prepare locally sourced food for […]

At least that’s what I imagine. They definitely come to sample Floyd’s vibrant music scene, and I don’t think they leave disappointed. Reptile DysFUNKshen, a psychedelic progressive rock band, is the newest Floyd home band playing quality original music, and they played last night at the Dogtown Roadhouse. “The band jams a lot, and we […]

Shadow Shot Sunday

– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 21, 2015. The Floyd Community Theatre Guild’s production of the Laramie Project was received with a sustained standing ovation. Performed at the June Bug Center, the Sunday afternoon play was followed by a cast reception line, where audience members thanked the director and actors […]

1. Google’s search engine had a birthday cake graphic up on my birthday, which made me feel kind of creepy. 2. On my birthday I spell my name Colleeeeeeen and eat pie for dinner. 3. I took and processed a few hundred pictures over the weekend, covering a Lyme Disease Symposium, a powerful local theater […]

How long has Rip Van Winkle been sleeping been drunk on a drenched blue sky? When did he succumb to the perfumed rich air fall drowsy into dreams lulled by birdsong? It must have started on May Day Maybe there was wine involved with sun-warmed glasses clinking bocci balls colliding and the world driving by […]

-The following first appeared in the May 14, 2015 issue of the Floyd Press and was a follow-up to THIS Press story.   A Floyd community benefit to support seventeen-year-old Kyla Robbins and her mother, Mara Robbins, was an all around success.  Held at Dogtown Roadhouse on Thursday night, the evening of live music and […]

Shadow Shot Sunday