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A drive-by shot A melting pot Is the sky falling, Chicken Little? ________Skywatch Friday

1. When does collecting become hoarding? 2. The spread of red is more of a creep and the glimmer of gold just a glimpse, but the sunset in October is like spilling a bucket of paint that washes over everything.  See it HERE. 3. I used to see my chicken’s hen house infighting like West Side […]

Wordless Wednesday

It’s a fairy tale of carousels spells and confetti Impressionistic valleys and Van Gogh gold It’s a Seurat painted scene of once upon a time with a hip hop drop from a mountain climb Where the red trees flame to light the traveler’s view All the better to see you with my dears ____________Real Gardens […]

Watching the chickens in their penned in yard is like watching Orange is the New Black, the award winning Netflix series about a woman’s prison.  Like the women in prison, the hens have cliques and tend to stick with their own kind. The Rhode Island Reds, our youngest hens, joined the flock in the spring […]

Shadow Shot Sunday

1. I was reading Neil Young’s memoir, Waging Heavy Peace, when I came across the mention of Radford University. I thought surely there are more Radford Universities than the one I know here in Virginia.  But then Neil started quoting something written by a Floyd friend, Billy Kovarik, who teaches journalism at Radford University and […]

Leaves swish and flutter like hushed applause on an emptying stage of days A spotlight sun lowers on a gold laden story Crows add drama foretell the future from the bright heights of glory to the bare boned unknown _____Colleen Redman / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads

Grandsons Bryce and Liam were good enough to lend Joe and me their hats so we could portray Mario and Luigi for Halloween. We put on a dress rehearsal with the only bad part being, it hurt like crazy when I pulled my mustache off. Last week my son Josh wrote on his Facebook Timeline: […]

Shadow Shot Sunday

1. Get Your Brain Massage HERE.  2. When does evoke become provoke? 3. I just saw a “Grammar Quiz” on Facebook and thought it said “Grandma Quiz.”  “I’d pass that,” I said to myself. 4. I tried to get the mail three times on Monday and didn’t figure it out until Joe came home and […]