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Category Archives: OldTimes

How Sweet It Is!

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 […]

Posted byfredNovember 8, 2007November 8, 2007Posted inFloyd County, OldTimes, PhotoImage13 Comments on How Sweet It Is!

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 […]

Posted byfredAugust 7, 2007August 8, 2007Posted inHomeAndHearth, OldTimes6 Comments on Four Year Pup

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 […]

Posted byfredJuly 28, 2007July 28, 2007Posted inHomeAndHearth, OldTimes, PhotoImage5 Comments on Julys Past: A Glance Back

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 […]

Posted byfredJanuary 13, 2007Posted inOldTimes1 Comment on How Do You Spell SUCCESS?

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 […]

Posted byfredDecember 30, 2006Posted inHomeAndHearth, OldTimes2 Comments on Like Momma Like Daughter

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