Sunday is like the cherry on the top of my four days of Floydfesting. I started out the day by taking pictures of sweet Floyd friend sightings. I took a series of shots called “People-watching from a Red Picnic Table in Front of the Longfin Grille Truck,” where I had a Chef Chiron made lunch. […]
Butterflies and boys (sons and grandsons) made my heart flutter at Floydfest on Saturday. We lounged on a giant rubber duckie after watching a juggler swallow fire and balance a chair on his head. Josh and Emily wore flowers in their hair from their Carolina Flowers flower farm in Marshall, NC. They’re getting married September […]
Does it look like these people like Michael Franti? Michael Franti likes his fans as much as they like him. This is how Franti gets in the mix with them. He brings fans up on stage to sing and dance with him, whether on the main stage or a make-shift crowd surfing stage like the […]
In the VIP tent, we watched a woman get a pie in the face while trying to win a lottery ticket challenge. I found my Floyd dance friend StarRoot (who also had an art booth on site) and we danced a few songs to Gote, just one of the bands that our friend John McBroom […]
1. I ran into my friend Triona at the Farmers Market on Saturday. She, like me, is a roving reporter. She loves to document and knows a good story when she sees one (she took the picture to the left with her iPad). I think journalism is in her future. HERE is the story I […]
_______Wordless Wednesday
What used to stop me in my tracks and threaten to sink me with its impact now slips away discreetly at night like Arctic icebergs breaking off in someone else’s proverbial backyard While true-north poets forget their lines and oar-less boats turn with the tides parts of me drift away in a foreboding and foretold […]
____Shadow Shot Sunday / Our World Tuesday
1. Question of the week: How do we put a chicken that’s been mauled by a raccoon out of its misery without causing more misery? 2. Best accomplishment of the week: staying at the pool until closing on Sunday. 3. Facebook message from Floydfest folks: Site build is going well. We just installed the rainbow […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press in April 2017. Kari Kovick is making a new CD. The local artist/educator and Heart of the Child Social Emotional Music Education director has enlisted the help of producer Ken Whiteley, an award winning Canadian roots musician who writes songs, performs and has produced over 135 recording projects for […]
If I complained to William Stafford that I haven’t written a poem in weeks he’d say “Lower your standards” Natalie Goldberg would say “Keep your hand moving” Kerouac said dig deep within your soul and blow freestyle like a jazz artist But my notes are flat and motivation is flagging so I google “advice on […]
-The following 4th of July Celebration photos first appeared in The Floyd Press on July 13, 2017. Family and friends gathered under a shade tree at the Floyd County High School for the annual Independence Day celebration, held on July 7th and sponsored by Floyd County Merchants’ & Businessmen’s Association. The bounce house was one […]
