1. Downtown Floyd 2. Upside Down Floyd 3. Down to Earth 4. Downright cute 1. Changes in downtown Floyd: Joe at the new sitting wall with the new timber framed public bathroom building in the background. 2. Someone was having fun with the window at the renovation for the Village Square. See another funny scene […]
1. For a small window of time in the spring, three blooms converge in symphony of color in the corner of my yard. 2. Dogwood, azalea, and baby irises come in one after the other, and for a week or two they co-exist together like the colorful layered fruit of an English trifle. 3. I […]
1. A front row seat at the First Friday Irish Night Jam at Oddfellas Cantina. 2. Lucy Goldman Singing Dougie Mclean’s “Ready for the Storm.” Tina Liza Jones (on the left) was strumming an unusual guitar; I think it was THIS. 3. Several played fiddle and one played a harp. I wish someone in the […]
1. Last May I hiked down into the abandoned orchard, where Joe and I pick apples in the fall, to see the trees in bloom. But because of a late freeze, there wasn’t a single a bloom on a single tree. Disappointed, I trudged back out of the valley knowing there wouldn’t be a single […]
1. Illumination 2. Social Graces 3. Bold Faces
1. A friend of a friend, named Pet Pet Ping Pong. 2. Breakfast at Alwyn’s, where I recently spent the night. 3. Someone saved a seat with their flat footing dance shoes for the Friday Night Jamboree. 4. Chalk on the sidewalk in front of the Blackwater Loft. 5. Is that a six word memoir […]
1. A puddle of petals 2. A litter of yellow 3. Not crying over spilled flowers
1. Winning Hand 2. A Pupil of Poetry 3. Self portrait in the eye of the beholder 4. Pose of Ponder 5. Gold Finger Post note: Body Language Part I is HERE.
1. My Father’s Nose 2. Teardrops 3. Last Leg
Poet pandemonium at the VMI Poetry Symposium The Power of Poetry makes us say Cheese It rhymes with Please Post Notes: Left to right, back row first, is (mostly): Kara, Mara, Julie, (and then Noren), Sharon, Sharon’s husband. Colleen and Melanie are in front. The first photo also shows VMI Professor Gordon Ball. To read […]
1. This is my version of ‘I can’t resist a man in uniform.’ 2. So I follow him around like an adoring fan. 3. This is him, my soccer coach husband, simulating the bicycle kick he did on the soccer field during practice earlier that day. 4. This is what the second part of a […]
Washington D.C. has it’s cherry blossoms. We have forsythia bushes. They surround our porch, casting their buttercup glow, their 100 watt sun-loving gold, and wide-eyed early spring bloom. For the next couple of weeks we’ll be wearing sunglasses.
