It’s that time of year again. We’ll not really. There are fires and droughts in California, record breaking heat in the Southwest and other severe weather events consistently being reported. Here in Virginia, the seasonal wildflowers and fruits are almost a month early. There was a time when we picked apples in October. Our latest […]
Or the dreams where you show up I’m worried and ask “Does this ever happen to you?” But I never remember your answer Lately we’ve been cooking together in kitchens I don’t recognize In one you used the only pan to cook bacon when I wanted to scramble eggs My grandson waited at the table […]
Shadow Shot Sunday
1. My brothers had these cardboard brick blocks when we were growing up. I got them for my sons and now for my grandsons because they provide endless open ended fun. In just one hour Bryce and Liam built a Five Nights at Freddie’s Pizza Parlor, a race track, robots and even a keyboard and […]
– Wordless Wednesday
– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press with a larger spread of photos on August 13, 2015. Whether it’s performance art, live music, theater or visual art, Floydfest has always been a canvas for creativity. Everything from the costumes worn to landscaped pools and gardens, and to the vending of fine art […]
Shadow Shot Sunday
– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 20, 2015. Television news reporters from WSLS10 and WDBJ7 came out to film footage of Hands Across Our Land (HAOL), a nationwide citizen action that took place Tuesday at the Roanoke and Floyd County line on 221 and the Blue Ridge Parkway. The local […]
1. Does Donald Trump think the whole world is a reality show for ratings? 2. A Facebook friend recently posted a picture of a deer with the caption “2 buck in the parking lot,” to which I commented, “Do you have change for a 20?” 3. The city of Melbourne assigned trees email addresses so […]
___Wordless Wednesday
A cool salve of moon to soothe the day’s fever is a night medicinal in a glass open jar is a lip gloss of light to soften rough edges to kiss goodnight the last of the day _____Colleen Redman / Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads
I drive by horses everyday, or at least on the days I go to town. I see those grazing horses in the pasture right after I pass a small bridge that crosses over a winding creek and before the paved road turns to dirt and heads up a hill. At the peak of that incline, […]
