Loose Leaf Notes

Summer on Sale Cold enough for socks Putting up the harvest Everything’s coming up Mums Future Thanksgiving pie Is the woodshed half empty or half full?

We used to think hay bales were put there by farmers for Andrew Wyeth to paint. Conformity Do Your Own Thing Loyalty Perspective End of the Season Temptation Note: All the photos were taken in our Blue Ridge Parkway neighborhood, except the pool closing one. The dog is Jazzy, chow, inherited from our son Dylan. […]

AKA: Friends in High Places Numero Uno Two is Company Three’s a Crowd

1. Peaceful 2. Fragile 3. Distant 4. Impermanence 5. Nostalgic Photos: 1. A floater at Great Oaks Country Club in Floyd. 2. Gone to seed plant in my yard. 3. Buffalo Moutain as shot from The Saddle on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd, Virginia. 4. Sand castles at Bethany Beach, Delaware. 5. Aging sunflower […]

AKA: In the Pink 1. Flighty 2. Fickle 3. Been Around the Block 4. New Kid on the Block

1.Jack in the hat. Jack (on the left) is a member of the meditation satsang I belong to. Here, he and his friends in various hats are volunteering at the Jacksonville Center information booth. 2. Is it any wonder that I lost my parked car and almost missed my scheduled reading under the Poet Tree? […]

1. Loneliness 2. The Promise 3. Blue Ridge Rest Stop 4. The Love Seat 5. Bad Hair Day 1. Great Oaks Country Club Pool on a Sunday 2. Pretty soon there will be so many red ones I won’t know what to do with them all. 3. Pit stop after the Winery. No, we’re not […]

What goes up Must come down What goes around Comes around Mara and Leigh came over to play Scrabble yesterday. Leigh’s little sister, Mara’s daughter, and friend were with them. More than Scrabble was played. What do you like to play?

1. Most Confident 2. Most Improved 3. Most Daring 4. Most Studious 5. Most Stylish 6. Most Improvised 7. Most Patient Audience

My son Dylan and Alexis are married! Alexis’ sister was the Maid of Honor and my son Josh was the Best Man. This is my husband Joe’s sister, Maryanne, and me at the rehearsal dinner. Notice the framed picture behind us. Why do they always have to play the twist at wedding receptions? My sister […]

Older son in town for younger brother’s wedding does laundry. Gorilla suit. To be continued …

Look who crawled under the netting to the blueberry patch; my 6’ 2″ 26 year old son, Josh. He inherited his father’s dislike of mayonnaise and his mother’s love of blueberries. When he was a little boy he used to set up battles between blueberries and grapes. The blueberries always lost because he ate them. […]