1. Corn is the new candy! 2. And a lounge chair at the pool is the new napping nursery. 3. This is the place where I have nothing to write because I’m working on a story about Floyd Yoga Jam. 4. I couldn’t find my bell-bottoms HERE. 5. “Tea to the English is really a […]
________Wordless Wednesday
The birds are in the background now and the butterflies are busy. The green-breasted hummingbird comes to breakfast on the porch and tries to work up the courage to land on the purple petunias. This is the first year in a few that we have corn and summer phlox. I had to kill a raccoon […]
I really wanted to wear bell-bottoms to the Summer of Love Party at Dogtown last night, but I don’t have or couldn’t find any. I do have two memorable items of clothing from 1969 that I could have worn but chose the above 1980’s thrift shop top because I knew it would be easier to […]
-Some of the following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 8, 2019. A break in the rainy weather meant a good turn-out for the 5th installment of Small Town Summer, a town concert event that is free to the public. Held every other Thursday evening at the Warren Lineberry Park, the event offers […]
1. Duality is a see-saw that frequently hits the ground of reality if you go up too high. 2. I’m a tourist to my own eldering. 3. I always think of my brothers Jim and Dan, who died in 2001, as pioneers of the wild west of death. 4. Some people collect knickknacks. I collect […]
I’m a fading flower and summer is slipping by I keep my head down and my hands busy I plant the names of blooms in the hope they grow into poems that will take care of me in my old age that will come back every year __________Colleen Redman / Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on August 1, 2019. Floydfest Voyage Home 2019 was a sold-out show that saw the best weather in recent memory. The sun shone down on as many as 15,000 happy campers and music lovers, which included those who come back year-after-year and a new generation of first-time […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on July 25th with a smaller selection of photos. Family and friends gathered on the lawn at the Warren Lineberry Park for the 4th installment of Small Town Summer 2019, featuring free concerts and family activities. Ellie Rowe, one of the volunteers working at the Plenty! food […]
1. After five days at Floydfest, I can only think in pictures and music. Words are another matter, so this may be challenging. 2. We came home to the smell of a dead raccoon in the garden. After leaving a radio and lights on all night didn’t work to keep them out of our corn, […]
