Every time I take a crowd scene photo there is one or two people in the shot that I know but only discover when it’s uploaded on my computer. Sunday at Floydfest is always the sweetest day for me in a cherry-on-the-top sort of way. I’m always tired but happy. I flit around less and […]
“Let the rumpus start” kept going through my head when the family arrived to FloydfestWILD on Saturday. We made ourselves at home at the Oasis, the mid-field art installation, designed by Eric Davis as “an oasis in the middle of the wild” where wild things can go to relax. We recognized other Wild Things there. […]
There’s a lot to see doing the late shift at Floydfest and lots of old and new friends to run into. Once again, I arrived in the evening so I could stay late and see the headliner, Foster the People, and the latest all-the-rage Greta Van Fleet, who had just come off a standing ovation […]
Joe was up at the site early on Thursday, sending me photos and videos from his phone. He’s heading up the festival’s Teen Engagement Program, and I was planning on a later festival shift, conserving my energy, so that I could last till midnight to see Lukas Nelson, son of Willie. It was our friend […]
1. “I can make anything” HERE. 2. Sometimes I repost parts of old entries, the way I wear the same outfits more than once. 3. After sitting in the archive closet for a few years, old posts seem almost new. 4. The entertainment industry seems so hard-up for material these days that all they seem to […]
_______Our World Tuesday / Wordless Wednesday
My mother’s clothes arrived in a dream just a bit too large and dated I didn’t recognize the folded shirts the shoulder-padded dress with faded patterns of blue or gray What should I do with their heavy weight their empty reminders that no one can fill? I imagine them packed in thrift shop boxes hanging useless […]
More Andy Griffith Than Alcatraz. Read Welcome to the Brick Factory HERE and The Jailhouse Tour HERE. / Shadow Shot Sunda / Our World Tuesday
1. This is Not a Wall 2. Climbing the Wall Here. 3. The plan was for Joe and I to spend the weekend visiting my Asheville Potter Son Josh and his fiancé Emily and to help them get “The Land” ready for their wedding in September. The Land is in Marshall, 20 minutes outside of Asheville, […]
___________Wordless Wednesday
_______Wordless Wednesday
The plan was for Joe and I to spend the weekend visiting my Asheville Potter Son Josh and his fiancé Emily and to help them get “The Land” ready for their wedding in September. The Land is in Marshall, 20 minutes outside of Asheville, where Josh and Emily live. It’s a complex of kilns, gardens, […]