Tuesday, March 12, 2024
41 Pictures of John
Monday, March 04, 2024
2024 Azalea Storytelling Festival
Between the two final performances on Sunday the four headliners posed for pictures. L-R: Regi Carpenter, Bil Lepp, Paul Strickland, and Donald Davis. |
At the ASF the Callaway auditorium is a wonderful place to hear stories. First, you always hear them. The sound system is great. The upholstered seats are comfortable. The emcee (always in recent years our friend Carol Cain -- except when she is a headliner herself) is entertaining BUT keeps it short and makes sure the spotlight on the tellers and not herself. |
Monday, February 26, 2024
A Poem to Start the Week: If I can stop one heart from breaking
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,I shall not live in vain.'By Emily Dickinson
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Walking With Lil & Jordan
It's great to have Lillian and Jordan with us this weekend and so glad to have their company for an hour or so on a walk along the river.
Since the last time we walked the trail -- quite a while actually -- the local geocache folks have added a bunch of bollards containing caches. Jordan was not familiar with this activity, so we told him about our few geocaching exploits and about the big annual geocaching weekend that is held in Rome. Naturally of son-in-law, always curious to know about stuff, consulted Mr. Google (or DuckDuck or whatever) and downloaded a geocaching app. On our return walk he found one cache under a rock near the levee.
Lillian and Jordan have two cats, Waffles (15) and George (8) so we pointed out the grave of Tom Cat along the trail:
Lillian and Jordan sit ion the bench at the trailside grave of Tom Cat near the Mount Berry Trailhead. |
As we neared the Little Dry Creek bridge on our return walk I noticed a tree full of berries near the creek. In sandals and pants not meant for bushwhacking I made my way to it and took some pictures. My plant ID app declared it "Possumhaw Holly," (Ilex decidua). Maybe
that's right. I'd like to have a couple of these in my yard.