I joked with my good friend Rowan (one of my son Dylan’s best friends growing up) that I was routing for the Netherlands’ team because I had a past life in that country. He, whose brother and his family live in Spain, thought differently on the matter.
It was my first time at the new Dogtown [...]
A little boy with an Easter basket in our blueberry patch (video HERE).
A pony ride with his dad at our town’s July 4th celebration (video HERE.)
Popcorn, cotton candy, dancing to bluegrass an adventure in an inflatable moonbounce house (I didn’t know what I was getting into but he was a pro). Video HERE.
It rained fireworks, [...]
The following is a selection of Floyd County High School graduation photos, most of which appeared in The Floyd Press on June 10, 2010.
The auditorium was full of graduating seniors and their family and friends for the 48th Graduation Program of Floyd County High School Sunday afternoon.
Teachers greeted each graduating senior and assisted to [...]
The new switchback trail up to Buffalo Mountain was lined with bright red fire pinks and May bluets waving in the breeze. We took our time, stopping to photograph a snail on a rock and to admire every variety of wildflower.
We posed with boulders as if they were our long lost relatives and sat on [...]
For my 60th birthday (today!) I soaked in a tub of weightlessness. Floating on what felt like a heated cloud of jiggling jello, I had a cold cloth on my forehead and someone was massaging my feet. I had dinner with a Scottish man who was at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Bed-in for Peace, [...]
Life in the rural fast lane just got its speed limit raised. For such a small mountain town, there sure is a lot going on. Not only did we turn our house into a gallery this weekend for the Sixteen Hands Art Tour that my son is a part of, we went dancing to the [...]
Times sure have changed since the late 80’s when we were a trickle of clowns and kids from Blue Mountain School holding banners and marching through town in a small and poorly attended Earth Day parade.
This weekend I took pictures for the newspaper of our county’s annual Green and Clean trash pick-up, of the opening [...]
A parade of motorcycles.
A red convertible with the top town.
An old time jam in the Country Store alley.
A red-nosed clown in town (more on that later).
Students in the lower elementary class at Blue Mountain School painted placemats for the third annual Empty Bowls, a fund-raising event hosted by Plenty! to be held at The Jacksonville Center for the Arts this Sunday from 11 – 1:30. A meal of soup served in hand-thrown pottery bowls (which you get [...]
“It was a good run,” Café del Sol co-owner Frank Walker was recently quoted as saying. His wife Sally (aka The Countess of Coffee) posted her goodbye on their website. For seven years the café has been a Floyd hub and a beautiful downtown second home to many. For six years the writer’s [...]
Wearing a Mardi Gras mask, I had to be asked while being ticketed and wrist-banded at the door if I was old enough to be served at the bar.
After being snowed-in and cold for weeks, party-goers turned out in sold-out numbers and showed up in full Mardi Gras regalia, shaking off winter blues on the [...]
I checked out the Laughter Yoga class at the Floyd Fitness Center because I thought it would make a nice story for the paper because I know we could all use a good laugh right about now in the middle of a blizzardy February.
The group was less than half its normal size because of the [...]
The snowed-in took advantage of Sunday’s sun to get outside for a walk in the neighborhood. This group broke the cabin fever with tea and cookies and good conversation inside the warmth of our house before heading back up the homegrown plowed hill to their farm.
The creeks were full and rushing.
Old mailboxes were full [...]
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on January 28, 2010.
Those familiar with the culinary talents of Michael Gucciardo have waited five years for him to come back home to Floyd. A native New Yorker, Michael learned how to cook authentic Italian food from his father and other family members [...]
A Museletter mascot, a 30 year anniversary party, and a monthly crossword puzzle of Floyd County trivia were some of the ideas given at the Consensus Workshop at the library on Saturday.
The workshop was facilitated by Andy Morikawa of the Community Foundation of the New River Valley to discuss the future of the Museletter, the [...]
Saturday’s night life in downtown Floyd included a quotable line delivered by poet Mara Robbins. From the Café del Sol Spoken Word stage she announced that “Pat Robertson is to Christians what Kanye West is to musicians,” referring to Robertson’s ludicrous remark about the earthquake in Haiti being a result of the country’s pact [...]
The babies were cute and the Country Store Christmas stage looked pretty. How could I resist documenting the event?
One photograph led to another and soon snapping pictures and videos took precedent over my urge to dance.
The turnout was good, the music top notch, the fellowship fun, and the reason we were there was heartwarming [...]
That’s what I said to Joe Christmas morning when we woke up to an ice storm, when the power went out and I wondered how many turkeys wouldn’t get cooked for Christmas dinner and how many families wouldn’t be able to travel to see relatives that day. “We won’t even be able to light [...]
