After a decade of addiction and dependence on a Blackberry (AKA “Crackberry”), I have broken free of my habit and dumped the phone-cum-email device. For 11 years, I have carried a Blackberry and become dependent on its instant email delivery and ability to communicate from all parts of the globe. No more. It have broken [...]
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With everything that has happened lately, I took a pre-dawn ride on the Blue Ridge Parkway to think and reflect. As daylight and dawn approached, the beauty of our area emerged. This was a grab shot with the Canon G9 camera that I carry in my motorcycle saddlebags. It reminds me that — even in [...]
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Things started going from bad to worse on Tuesday of last week when our refrigerator died, leaving us with a mess of spoiling food. With mine and Amy’s schedule, it was Thursday before we could venture over to C’Burg to look for a replacement fridge. The old one came with the house when we bought [...]
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A reader recently reprinted, as a comment to an article about the race between Rep. Rick Boucher and Congressional wannabe Morgan Griffith, a widely-circulated email that claims to contain damning facts about illegal immigrants, food stamps and welfare in this country. Nothing in the email is true. It has been proven false by numerous “fact [...]
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On Tuesday, I noted how most of the summer’s storms have missed us and lamented the lack of rain. Later in the day a massive storm dumped more than an inch of rain on us in less than 30 minutes, soaking the landscape and leaving our driveway an impassable mass of gullies and washouts. As [...]
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Dark, ominous clouds loomed on the horizon Monday night as I rode my Harley out of Roanoke and headed home after a long day. Then the lightning started. I stepped up my pace. This looked like a storm that I needed to beat home. Even with what appeared to be an approaching storm, the rapidly-falling [...]
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Grace Potter and Mountain Heart closed out FloydFest 9 Sunday afternoon, bringing the annual musical extravaganza to a successful conclusion for what just about everyone agrees was the best one yet. This year’s FloydFest was more of everything: More musical acts on more stages, more people, a more diverse offering of musical styles, more of [...]
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By the time rock and roll legend Levon Helm took the stage at FloydFest 9 Saturday night, a nearly full moon hung over the Dreaming Creek stage and it was obvious that the annual music event that bears Floyd’s name had become a legend of its own. FF founders Erica Johnson and Kris Hodges may [...]
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Hot weather didn’t cool the enthusiasm of those flocking to day 2 of FloydFest 9 Friday. A power outage from a blown fuse threatened the action Friday night but Railroad Earth performed with generator power. Seems the same fuse circuit that put last year’s festival in the dark for a while blew again. FloydFest continues [...]
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FloydFest 9 kicked off Thursday amid the heat and humidity of the hills just inside Patrick County just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. Now firmly established as part of the national festival scene, FloydFest is more than a four-day music event. It’s an instant community that brings another national spotlight on the area. The people [...]
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