1. Last Thursday was the one year anniversary (52 weeks) of “Thirteen Thursday,” which was created by Leanne at Intricate Art. It marked my 43rd Thirteen Thursday post. I’m thinking about putting out a best of 13. You know, like musicians put of a “best of” album. 2. Did you know that you could buy [...]
The Garden: The entrance is blocked with overgrown rows … I walk on cucumbers and cherry tomatoes. ~ Colleen I should be in the garden. There’s basil to pick for making pesto, onions to braid, and Japanese beetles to kill. All the corn comes in at once. I know it’s ripe when the ear worms [...]
AKA: In the Pink 1. Flighty 2. Fickle 3. Been Around the Block 4. New Kid on the Block
“As someone who is 5 foot and 1 inch, I sometimes wonder what I might have done with all the time I’ve spent hemming pants and skirts if I didn’t have to do it. Maybe if I was taller, I would have read more of the classics.” ~ Colleen I’ve been thinking about books all [...]
Many of the best moments in my life have happened spontaneously. Last weekend at Floyd Fest was no different. Julie Hauserman, a Florida-based journalist and radio personality (pictured here), happened to be camping across the path from the Floyd Fest Poet Tree, a volunteer soap box stage for spoken word readings, located under an apple [...]
The arts and homespun wares featured at Floyd Fest this year included handmade hammocks, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, leather goods, clothes, birdhouses, and hula hoops. There was even a booth with a cider press selling freshly made apple cider. Although I enjoyed window shopping and sampling Floyd Fest’s creative bounty, I believe it was my [...]
1. My kitchen is a disaster area. My desk is in an uproar. My car hasn’t been cleaned out since my husband and I returned from our beach vacation over a week ago. I’m still processing photographs from my son’s July 8th wedding, and my feet are dirty from barefoot dancing at Floyd Fest. My [...]
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? [...]
Floyd Fest, our town’s yearly world music festival, is a people watchers paradise. My favorite part of the weekend festival – just six miles from my driveway on The Blue Ridge Parkway – is the cross section of people who attend it. Once on the sprawling grounds of open fields and wooded pathways, roles and [...]
