Loose Leaf Notes

________Shadow Shot Sunday

1. This week’s shopping list literally started with “fizzy and “izze.” 2. Fizzy is packets for Emergen-C powder and Izze is a brand of juice soda that I like. 3. Someone at the weekend’s Mayfaire wanted to sell me a beer cozy.  “I’m the type of person who gardens with my hands without gloves. I’m […]

It was the weekend of the first annual Mayfaire at The Floyd Center for the Arts, complete with Maypole Dancing. I was briefly crowned, tried on a Queen of May Day garland, made by one of the Floyd Mystic Witches dancers.  Look for a spread of photos coming in this week’s Floyd Press on the Old […]

I’ve been spending my mortality like rolling dice hoping for sixes but getting twos I’ve been present to my absence guarded by my silence You can’t even spot me walking to the mailbox Like a bird losing habitat I sing less and listen more I’m my father’s homebody and my mother’s skeptic floating through days […]

Just when I gave up getting a picture of Clark Gable and Scarlet O’Hara cardinals together, a pair of red-breasted grosbeaks paid a visit.  I had never seen one before! They call it a purple finch, but it looks red to me.  A cardinal, woodpecker and nuthatch also play a role.

1. Yesterday, I spent the day with a cardinal named Clark Gable. 2. You know I’ve been staying home too long when I start naming the birds at the feeder. I’ve been calling the finches “the golden girls” even though I know the yellow ones are males. 3. I should be relearning my French for […]

_______Wordless Wednesday