From kimono to sundress to a wet bathing suit hanging from a porch chair in the afternoon A battle with deer for my lilies and phlox Saving corn and hens with an electric fence The click of a cold can Sparkling black cherry Sliced ripe tomatoes Flat beans to snap The sky’s weight hangs Drowsy […]
1. Joe looking for the mayonnaise jar buried in the back of the fridge for me: “You’re better looking but I’m better at looking.” 2. Alice or Dorothy? 3. I’d really like to tour THIS abandoned clown house. 4. Me to Joe at the beach: “Don’t think about sharks. Don’t think about the chickens home […]
______Wordless Wednesday
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on July 23, 2020. There will be pie, but “Guillermo’s specialty is cheese cake,” said Bill Taylor, co-owner of American Pie, the new restaurant soon to open at 1041 Floyd Highway where Ray’s Restaurant was located for decades. Guillermo Mateo, the restaurant’s chef and co-owner, came from […]
A scratch of light marks the sky’s western shoulder like a night tattoo of unfinished moon __________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
Sometimes the best thing you can do at the beach is to go to the pool, especially when it’s 95 degrees, you have a sunburn and the wind at the shore is in full force. A little girl at the pool gave me a strange look and then asked her daddy, “Why is she in […]
1. Here at Atlantic Beach there are whistling gulls that trill repeatedly in short bursts as they fly by. The first time I heard them, I thought it was someone’s ring tone, or a lifeguard’s whistle. 2. I brought a beach book, but so far mostly I’ve just been reading menus in search of fried […]
After four months of pandemic life with no live music in a town known for it, the music scene in Floyd is coming back. It started with an outdoor backyard concert with Junior Sisk, Sammy Shelor and others at The Floyd Country Store a couple of weeks ago. Last Saturday night Music Road Company musicians […]
Our native rhododendrons came and went without much fanfare this year (which means I didn’t photograph them) and the deer ate most of my daylilies. So, when I pass a field of Monet red poppies mixed with spiky purple perennials, I pull over and savor the view. This is actually someone’s yard. I kept expecting […]
1. Now everybody wants a pair of crocs like Liam’s for Christmas this year. 2. These days “going out” means to the yard. 3. But sometimes it means rainbows, toasted marshmallows and a hare and tortoise race. See HERE. 4. I have a book on Hold at the library called Hold Still. 5. If you […]
I think of every part of life as a developmental stage. We learn to walk and talk. We develop attachments and a conscience. We are attracted to others, try new things, do work that we love and hope to be recognized. It all goes according to some unspoken schedule and with every stage we can […]
The tortoises won the race. We knew they would because that’s the way the story goes. The tortoises traveled by foot but the hares had wheels. We think they got overconfident. Some took an afternoon float. Some cooled down in other ways. I got a four-star rating from Liam for my camp chili. He added […]
