The Floyd Country Store, in its renovated reincarnation, draws young and old–for the music, for the food and soda fountain, and for the penny candy you once loved and can’t find anywhere else–at least in such volume and with this lovely, nostalgic “presentation”. And one virtual gumdrop to the person who first identifies the entertainment […]
Category Archives: OldTimes
Four Year Pup
It was four years ago, July 6, that we took Buster on his last trip to town. It will soon be four years, August 17, that we brought Tsuga home to Goose Creek. This is not a very good picture from a couple of weeks ago. And contrary to how it appears, he is NOT […]
Julys Past: A Glance Back
This is a rebroadcast–from July 2002–out of those distant archives (still hard to reach just now after the recent WordPress move.) These concrete memories help “place” me today in the context of what has come in Julys past, to better hear the rhythms of these times. If you want to dance, you have to hear […]
How Do You Spell SUCCESS?
’tis a sad day when my photographic opportunities come only from (Friday) work and (Saturday) a day long meeting. But I’m determined to start up the learning curve with the new hardware, so I’ll take the shots where I find them. Love the one I’m with, I suppose. Having the camera at work reminded me […]
Like Momma Like Daughter
Somewhere up in the Very Back Room, in a cardboard box full of faded leatherette albums filled with yellowed acetate sheets of pale Instamatic images from the Pleistocene era of our marriage and family life, is a picture of our eldest–then about a year old–gnawing a turkey bone. She is sitting in a high chair […]