It’s the only place I drink tea and wine at the same time. The Winery was where I first discovered sachet pyramid tea, and I look forward to sipping it whenever I’m back. I usually don’t order wine because it tends to make me feel tired, but Sweet Mountain Laurel is different. Light, sweet, with […]
All Over Again
When the Café Del Sol Spoken Word chair is “off-duty,” it sometimes hosts unexpected guests that aren’t necessarily poets, like those on their home to Boston from a car show in Florida; my sister Kathy and her husband Ozzie. Waiting for my grandson to be born Alternative to Scrabble
1. The Tin man’s hat 2. Rumplestiltskin’s moonshine jug 3. Peter and Wendy’s shadows 4. Three wishes granted Post notes: Photos were taken on a fairytale walk in the neighborhood with Joe this past Sunday. The flower, one of the first signs of spring, is coltsfoot.
1. Distracted 2. Two-faced moon 3. Triangle angle 4. Fashion Feng Shui Post notes: 1. Downtown window. 2. Kitchen window. 3. View from my cellar stairs. 4. In Feng sui, the Chinese art of right design placement, splashes of red are said to bring good luck and overcome negative energy.
This is the place where a tropical winter vacation picture should be, but instead it’s photo of our truck that just had an $800 repair. Our dog Jazzy is guarding our investment. A couple of hours after I took this shot it started snowing. HERE is the videotape that resulted from that, titled “Truck Full […]
1. Magnets and words go together for me like peanut butter and chocolate. 2. When I was a little girl, my grandmother had Terrier dog magnets. They were my first introduction to magnets and I remember thinking they were magical, the way they stuck to each other. I tried hard to make the ones that […]
1. For some reason whenever the electric power goes out I begin to feel that my normal clothes look dirty and I wonder why I didn’t do a wash yesterday when I had the chance. When water doesn’t run freely from my faucets, I’m thirstier than normal and start to feel that I simply must […]
1. He tells me I’m sweet like the Princess in Aladdin. I say thank you because I figure it’s a compliment. 2. Strolling along Morning Dew, the dirt road I named after the Grateful Dead song, we picked up litter. “Do you see anything red?” he asks. “No,” I answer. I point to an old […]
1. Upscale 2. Just my type 3. Posers 4. Still for butts Photos: 1. When the scale hits 120 I jump up and down, not because I’m happy but because I need to burn some calories. 2. The old typewriter donated by a retired Bank of Floyd worker for the Hotel Floyd Writer’s Room spent […]
1. Barring bad weather 2. Snowy white beard 3. The cold shoulder 4. Dog in need of a sled 5. Escape Post notes: All of the photos above were taken on the morning of 1/17/08 after waking up to our first photo worthy winter snowfall. HERE is a previously posted poem to accompany them, which […]
1. Alignment 2. Angle 3. Cross reference 4. Behind bars 5. Checkered past 6. Split personality These days, I’ve been drawn to the late afternoon shadows looming long in the low winter sun. The above photos were taken within an hour of each other late Sunday afternoon. # 2 was the first one I shot, […]
