Goldenrod memories
Amy was an accomplished actress when we met in the 1970s and worked for a while as the resident heroine on The Goldenrod Showboat on the Mississippi River in front of the St. Louis Gateway Arch. In fact, it was her experience as a heroine that led the Alton Little Theater company to bring her [...]
Take a quick ride down Squirrel Spur, as seen from the seat of my Harley FXD. The song, “Thunder Road,” is sung by the late, great tough-guy actor actor Robert Mitchum, who starred in the movie of the same name.
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For fans of singer and former coffee diva Sally Walker, here’s a re-edit of some video shot of her during a performance at Oak Grove Pavilion in 2006. Damn, I miss Cafe del Sol.
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Shot the first two images while on assignment in Paris in 1987. The third was in the National Mall in Washington in 2000. Lovers can be found everywhere. The Paris scanned from slides shot with a Nikon F2. The DC photo was a digital image shot with a Nikon D1.
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Had to search high and low late Saturday night and early Sunday for clear sky but finally caught the Super Moon in a couple of places in Floyd County. The photo above was shot Saturday night along Buffalo Mountain Road in the southern part of the county. The shot below was in the early morning [...]
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The roar of motorcycles announced a new batch of Roanoke Valley Harley Owners Group’s famous “White Knuckle Chili” is ready for sampling at the annual Virginia State Chili Championship Cook Off in downtown Roanoke. Related articles Chop chop(blueridgemuse.com)
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The Roanoke Valley Harley Owners Group prepares a chili that is a consistent winner in the Virginia Chili Cook Off in downtown Roanoke each year. Making that chili is a collaborative effort that requires chopping up lots of ingredients. The cookoff is today. Hopefully, I will have some video of it as well.
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I wrote this piece in 1997 for a web site called DC Darkside. He’d been in the city for 16 years. A long time. Maybe too long. “Maybe it’s time to go back to your roots,” a friend said. “Back home.” Home. Where is home? He had lived in the city for 16 years, longer [...]
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