The Birth of the Blues March 2020…We had everything to look forward to: That first “Play ball!”, spring flowers, longer lazier days, the whole re-birth thing. And at the LEDC, preparations for the coming Farmers Market season and those first tastes of fresh greens and strawberries, catching up on the gossip, and shaking off the winter blahs…READY, SET, GOoooo…insert record …
The Long Goodbye
My large family has a problem with saying goodbye…it can take us another whole visit just to make sure we’ve said the last say, hugged the last hugs and kissed the last kisses. It usually starts in the kitchen, continues into the TV room, across to the front door, down the walk, to the car, and only ends when the …
OK…That’s a Wrap
We knew it would get here eventually…and as always, sooner than we imagined. I’m not sure what I’m going to do next Saturday…although there ARE a few dust bunnies under the bed, and someone has written my name on the credenza. (Just joking…I don’t have a credenza.) Maybe a road trip to do some leaf peeping? In case you haven’t …
As time goes ‘bye
It’s not like we didn’t know it was coming…but every year I find myself sideswiped by October…I guess that means I’ve been having a good time. Really? Doing what, exactly? I mean, what’s so good about getting up each Saturday from May to October to sit under a tent in a patch of macadam for four hours? That’s like asking …
The Big Chill
October 2022 came in with an attitude and plopped itself down on all of our plans like it didn’t care. And just stayed there. Seriously, how many of you were caught short without a sweater or a decent pair of jeans? I had to spend my “weekend with Ian” changing over my summer to winter wardrobes. Aaaagh! And now it’s …
Weather or not…
Well…Instead of sitting here typing this I should be uptown enjoying the fun and chaos of our annual and much anticipated 20th edition of Arts on the Avenue. What I am doing is listening to the steady drip drop of rain on the A/C unit, and the final swan song of Hurricane Ian. Unfortunately, because of the mountain of prep …
It’s Nothin’ to Cry About
Pity the onion…An understudy in the culinary cast. The alto in a room full of sopranos. The onion only wants a chance to introduce you to its inner goodness, but it can’t get close to you without bringing you to tears. But once you’ve learned to embrace the onion, you’ll want to meet the whole family…red, yellow and white, the …
Getting it Done
Websters defines volunteer as “one who renders a service or takes part in a transaction while having no legal concern or interest.” If you’ve been reading along all season, you’ll have figured out that my folksy musings have mostly to do with promoting all that can be savored and enjoyed every Saturday during Farmers Market season. Especially the food. I …
Change is gonna come…
Mid-September and time to revise our routines, retire the flip-flops and rethink the dinner menu. And is it just my imagination or has the thermometer finally dropped below Hades degrees? If not, at least the sun is sinking a little earlier each day and leaving us with longer evenings and the hint of cooler weather to come. This has been …
Suddenly September
It happens every year…and every year we’re just as surprised and unprepared for it. Sometime during the night, August slipped out of town and left us with September, with an energy all its own. To resist is futile. August isn’t coming back. But we had a warning…Yep. There’s always that week in August, when it happens… You all saw them, …