~ The following appeared in The Floyd Press on November 24, 2011. Twenty-five of Scott Perry’s 36 Pickin’ Porch students performed at a fall/winter recital at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts Sunday afternoon from 1 – 4 p.m. Performances by beginner, intermediate and advanced students included solos and ensembles of guitar, banjo, mandolin and [...]
I’m a big fan of Donna the Buffalo and Jeb’s Puryear’s guitar work. They played at the Dogtown Sun Music Hall Friday and Saturday and we danced our socks off. Watch another clip HERE.
Walking on the rows of our garden like an astronaut looking for life on the moon, I discover a few volunteer kale plants that have survived the morning frost. I transplant them into the cold frame, pick a batch of remay-covered Swiss chard and harvest what’s left of the parsnips with a shovel, soaking [...]
1. A lot of people over the weekend were leaving my house with a brown paper bag. See why HERE. 2. At our Thanksgiving gratitude circle of about 15 people our host suggested everyone shut off their cell phones for an hour. Curious, I asked the group how many didn’t have a cell phone. I [...]
