Loose Leaf Notes

Shadow Shot Sunday / Weekend Reflections

– The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on July 16, 2015.  The inaugural Replenish Festival was kicked off over the weekend of July 10 – 12. A spirited showing of attendees enjoyed sunny weather, live music, good food and fellowship at the Burnett Farm in Willis. Celebrating faith, family and fun, the festival […]

1. The more I don’t go anywhere, the more I buy clothes at the thrift shop that I have nowhere to wear them to. The more clothes I acquire, the more I wear the same thing (house clothes) everyday. 2. Joe and I walked through the Blue Ridge Parkway bush on Saturday to check out […]

I can’t believe someone would pay me to take pictures of five-year-old kindergarteners on the first day of school.  That’s what I thought to myself as I drove out to Indian Valley Elementary School today to do that for the local paper.   It’s a dream assignment that always restores my faith in humanity, seeing all […]

AKA The Lost Boys Our World Tuesday /  Wordless Wednesday

– The following first appeared in the summer issue of About HER, a regional magazine insert. Margie Scott grew up about 40 miles north of Lyme Connecticut, the namesake and epicenter of Lyme Disease (LD), a borrelia bacteria infection transmitted to humans by the bite of infected deer ticks. Like most children growing in the […]

Shadow Shot Sunday

1. My life right now is like my garden with everything coming in one after the other or all at once, a beach vacation, Floydfest, a birthday pond party, a moonlight canoe cruise, a blessingway for a young mother, harvesting food and a few full days with the grand kids. 2. Bryce (7) in the […]

Our World Tuesday – Wordless Wednesday

A crescent canoe has fallen from the moon Now it floats like a thought down an unknown path Like a needle threading myth in a river of purpose It shines like an arrow in the quiet darkness   –  Floydfest On the Water Blue Moon Midnight Float / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads