The building that had once been a sprawling grocery store was now a brightly-colored entertainment megaplex called “the Children’s Fun Palace”. The parking lot was filled with cars. None of us knew what to expect on this first visit, but it was obviously the place to be on a warm, April day in the Midwestern […]
My friend Bobby and I were deposited one Alabama summer afternoon at his Aint Tink’s and told to “go play.” Though neither of us really knew how, we decided to fish in a small creek nearby. We figured it out as we went along and used what we could find close by–a crooked stick, a […]
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At first I thought my husband, Joe, had sold his soul to the FloydFest devil. Since he took the job of coordinating parking at the festival, I hadn’t seen him for days. For the past five years, he’s volunteered his time in exchange for a weekend pass, but this year, as the Floyd High soccer […]
Here are some images from Floyd Fest 6, a 4-day music festival which was held in July of 2007 right off the Blue Ridge Parkway in southwest Virginia. [nggallery id=1]
It is a beautiful late spring day in Floyd County and though it feels like summer, the Summer Solstice is still ten days away. A storm cloud approached, the trees swayed and leaves blew in the wind. The storm blew over so we continued with our outside chores; Scott mulching an asparagus bed and red […]
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Convinced that these dark moving shapes disappear underground, he follows them at great speed across the gravel road or edge of the pasture to catch them before they go subterranean. With the warmer weather, our yard will become pock-marked with his attempts to dig up those burrowing butterfly shadows from down there with the moles.
How do we maintain adequate quantity and quality of water in Floyd County? We could start by attending the Water and Life Event in Floyd County. The free Earth Day event is hosted by the Partnership for Floyd at Floyd County High School and will be open to the public at 9:30am on Saturday, April […]
What is it with some tea companies? They smartly impart snippets of wisdom, or just darn good quotes or thoughts on tea bag labels (Yogi Tea) and underneath bottle caps. It always gives me something to ponder and sometimes makes me smile, which is probably the point. In the last two weeks, thanks to Honest […]