~ The following 2016 review was done by excerpting the first line or few in one post from each month last year. You can click on the name of the month for a full accounting. January – The juncos stand precariously on snow. They can’t feel the ground beneath them. Their black bodies hop like […]
1. The photo above looks like we had a blurry, as well as Merry Christmas, but those are actually lit-up shoes that I got in our Yankee Swap, which someone else, who was also playing, promptly stole. Can you say Dorothy? 2. What good is a chair if it doesn’t rock, a shower if it isn’t […]
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-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 22, 2016. German natives and long-time Floyd residents Clemens and Barbara von Claparede-Crola recently hosted about 35 guests in their home, Eulenhof, for a German Christmas Cocktail Party to benefit the Floyd Center for the Arts (FCCA). The party spread, prepared by Barbara, was lit-up […]
Someone got a leopard-skin-pillbox hat for Christmas. The gift box was signed, from Dylan. “There are other people named Dylan besides your son,” Joe said when he gave it to me. Someone was good this year. Some didn’t want to just sit on Santa’s lap but wanted to impersonate, box, sing Christmas songs to and […]
Strange winter fruit hangs from a tree like a frosty cold tipped sugar bowl dusting the ground with icing _______Colleen Redman / Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
-The majority of the following photos first appeared in the Floyd Press on December 22, 2016. The Rising Sun Community School (RSCS) had its 3rd annual Gingerbread Ball at the Floyd Event Center on Saturday December 10th. It was a fundraising family formal where attendees enjoyed dining, dancing, desserts and more. There was a […]
1. Some people are more worried about the imagined war on Christmas than they are about with a war with China or a merger with Russia. 2. Christmas Night Lights seen through a beer glass are HERE. 3. I’ve been doing a 13 list since the fall of 2005 and this is my 579th entry. […]
___Soundtrack HERE /Shadow Shot Sunday
I wanted to see you and not look away but you looked away first You wrapped yourself in a royal blue blanket and laid on the floor next to our mother I wanted her to turn and comfort you but she was wrapped up too You took your place with no words spoken becoming one […]
Oddf3llows Restaurant and Bar in Floyd____Shadow Shot Sunday / Our World Tuesday
