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 ________Colleen Redman […]
This year I went to the traditional Kind at the Pine Halloween bash as the White Rabbit. Yes, that rabbit. The yearly show is always a reunion of local Dead Heads who dance like the Wild Things and know all the words to every Grateful Dead song that the band plays. There were Oompa Loompas […]
Even if it’s Halloween weekend and I went to a party the night before and have a party to go to the night after, I come out to dance to Richie Ursomarso and whatever Wildlife he puts together on stage. This time, the new addition was Sam Kephart on fiddle, which even got some Dogtown […]
– Outtakes from the Floyd Chamber’s Spooktacular Gala. Look for more photos in an upcoming Floyd Press. – Shadow Shot Sunday
1. My grandson Liam (7) set up his own business when we recently visited his Uncle Josh’s Mobile Brick Factory in NC. He sold broken pieces of bricks for either a dollar or a bottle cap to throw into the nearby French Broad River. “Why would I want to buy one and then throw it […]
_________Wordless Wednesday
These photos were taken at the tail end of the flower season and the day before Emily was expecting a first frost. Emily is my soon-to-be daughter-in-law who lives outside of Asheville with my son Josh. She is a past journalist for Asheville’s Citizens Times and is currently a farmer and the owner of Carolina […]
You write your own vows and recite them out loud This isn’t your first poetry reading You pick the best but vary your playlist You don’t show up in the same dress twice You read something sad and something funny Something old and new borrowed or blue With every reading your commitment to writing deepens […]
Read about the Old Marshall Jail renovation project that my son Josh and his partners are doing HERE. ________Shadow Shot Sunday
1. Last week I saw a rainbow and took it personal. In a good way. 2. Over the weekend, Joe and I took our grandsons, Bryce and Liam, to Marshall NC (outside Asheville) to visit The Brick Factory, a mobile public art project that was created by my potter son Josh and is currently taking place at […]
______Wordless Wednesday
The Brick Factory is a mobile public art project that was created by my Asheville Potter Son Josh Copus and is currently taking place at the Old Marshall Jail in downtown Marshall NC. Check times HERE. The idea is about building community. Visitors stamp their words and stories on a brick, created from clay dug […]
