1. Joe and I just saw the movie Inception, which made me remember this favorite quote: “Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say anymore about life?” Havelock Ellis 2. We’ve been picking turnip greens from under our new Redbud tree in our yard. I guess there were seeds in the compost […]
~ It’s Wordless Wednesday and all of the above barns are located within about 5 miles of where I live.
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on September 9, 2010 For more than two years Dogtown Pizza has been on the road, serving homemade wood-fired pizzas off the back of Jon Roberts’ truck. This summer Roberts and Dogtown co-owner Scott Smith parked the truck long enough to open the Dogtown Roadhouse, a […]
~ The first six photos in the series below appeared in The Floyd Press on September 9, 2010. Lotus Yard wore a red dress to the Floyd’s downtown First Friday event. She enjoyed a fruit smoothie from the Black Water Loft and a barbeque sandwich at the BBQ stand with her mother. Painter and poet […]
I did not fulfill my fantasy of being a pie contest judge for our town’s Country Fair, but I did get to have a hearty slice of the best apple pie I’ve ever tasted (washed down with an excellent Brooklyn Ale on tap). The pie was baked by my friend Mara with apples from her […]
That’s me doing “research” for a story about the new Dogtown Roadhouse in town. They have 8 beers on tap and 28 kinds of bottled microbrews. The beer tasting put my fellow Scrabble players at an advantage. “Just one more piece?” young Porter Sweeney seemed to ask his dad. At Dogtown they cook pizza in […]
1. It’s a crock that one of my crocs turned blue overnight (which I recently announced with this photo on Facebook). But it’s not a crock that one of my crocs shrunk a whole size overnight and didn’t fit anymore. 2. I think it’s fitting that crocks are for cooking and that you can cook […]
_________________________________ I stole this photo from my Asheville Potter son’s (center) Facebook page. More playing Wordless Wednesday HERE.
First light of morning Sipping green tea with jasmine Great Blue Heron swoops _______________________________ Post notes: The tea poem is one of mine from my TEAPOET chapbook of haiku. The teapots pictured are my friend Katherine’s. She is author of A Tea Poet’s Journey.
I’ve attended her tea parties, helped edit some of her tea poems, and wrote a blurb for her new book A Tea Poet’s Journey. As long time friends and lovers of tea, we share poetry and commiserate about the lack of knowledge on how to make a good cup of tea in our coffee obsessed […]
Planning his escape route Digging to China before lunch They all ran after the farmer’s wife who cut off their tails with a carving knife Did somebody say pot head?
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press on September 2, 2010. Floyd Countian Ann Moses has always had a garden. When she moved in town to the Pine Ridge Apartments she was disappointed to discover that there was no space provided to grow even one tomato plant. The Floyd Community Garden, which broke […]
