-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on May 26, 2016. It was the best attended open house at Riverstone Organic Farm since the farm began hosting Tour and Tasting events. Children delighted in getting close to chickens, finding eggs in nesting boxes and petting baby lambs that were born in April. Visitors learned […]
These photos were taken at Finders and Keepers in Floyd, except for the one that was taken in the woods in our neighborhood, near a off grid Baptist church that just retired its outhouse in favor of a portajohn. __________Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
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Project Presentation Night for Springhouse Community School’s (SCS) final semester of the 2015/2016 school year was presented on May 19th to an enthusiastic crowd. Family and community members engaged with students in question and answers and applauded individual presentations, which were conducted by the students through demonstrations, oral reports, performances and slide show presentations. Located […]
1. Poetic Feet? It’s a real term that refers to the basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables, such as iambic, anapestic, trochaic and dadtylic. 2. I don’t know the academic language of poetry, like I don’t know how to maneuver manual settings on a camera, but that […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 28, 2016. Mira Walker was first introduced to Ultimate Frisbee by her high school cross country track coach, Dawn Weeks, who organized pick-up games on athletes’ off-days. Daughter of Kalinda Wycoff and David Walker, Walker attended Blue Mountain School as a pre-schooler and elementary student. […]
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It’s too late for Woodstock but not for that leopard-skin pillbox-hat the one Bob Dylan made fun of and Jackie O passed over for pink It’s too late for a star on Hollywood Boulevard to walk the red carpet or become a Jungian psychologist It’s probably too late to hike the Camino but not to […]
Shadow Shot Sunday
1. How is it that what’s hot and what’s cool is the same thing? 2. I talk in rhyme whenever possible, which is why when my grandson turned eight on Saturday, I couldn’t help captioning all the birthday pictures I took: It’s Great to be Eight! 3. On seeing a herd of cows stampede off […]
-The following appeared in the May 12, 2016 issue of the Floyd Press. Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival enjoyed a full house for their Mozart in May concert, performed at the EcoVillage’s Event Center on Saturday evening, May 7th. The performing ensemble, made up of principal musicians from the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra (RSO), included concertmaster […]
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