Little Diva & The G-Strings
Floyd is well known not only for bluegrass music but there is a talented community of blues musicians and singers as well. Like Sally Walker, the "Little Diva" of "Little Diva and the G-Strings." Here’s a video of her and the band performing at Floyd’s recent Spring Into Summer Festival.
Composition
The afternoon thunderstorm soaked parts of Floyd County Wednesday but other sections remained dry. We heard the thunder at the studio but no rain fell. As I drove home in the early evening, the evidence of heavy rain increased but by then the sun was out with the light playing off the wetness.
I stopped along Harvestwood Road and found this rapidly disappearing evidence of recent rain set against the setting sun.
Hark! What light through yonder tree shines?
The morning sun breaks through the trees along Bethlehem Church Road in Floyd County. I pass this way often on pre-dawn sojourns and the rising sun often overwhelms the morning as light brings in the day.
Summer thunderstorm
The windows in my studio in Floyd are covered so I didn’t see the sky darkening outside. But when thunder shook the building, I grabbed my camera and headed outside for a look.
The dark, ominous clouds were a a shade of blue I had not seen here in the mountains, more like something you find on the plains of the midwest. The lightning came fast and furious. I sat the camera on a ledge and opened the shutter. Nature did the rest.
Morning fog
Early morning fog along Frankin Pike in Floyd County.
Webworks
Spiderweb discovered along Harvestwood Road during my morning walk.
Oh my aching back…and body
Spent six hours Saturday tackling the jungle that is also called our front yard. Mowing, trimming, edging, weed whacking, digging, cussing and muttering.
When we bought this place, one of its attractions was the large, landscaped, sloping yard that runs from the house to the road — all three-and-a-half acres of it.
On second thought…
As good as it gets?
In August 1986 I finished up a project in Vienna and realized I had four days before the next scheduled assignment in Geneva, so I rented a car and drove across Austria, part of Germany and the width of Switzerland, spending nights in Salzburg and Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
That’s Why They Call It The Blue Ridge
The mountains of the Blue Ridge as seen from Interstate 77 south of Hillsville in Carroll County.
Friday Night Jamboree
In 2002 and 2003, Amy and I worked on a documentary about Floyd’s famous Friday Night Jamboree. We were still living in Arlington and started filming on Labor Day weekend, 2002. Unfortunately, it rained that Friday night and we couldn’t get any outdoor shots. And it rained on the the four Friday nights afterwards that [...]