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These Few Precious Days

I lie on my back under the maple in the yard with an idea in my head and a smartphone camera in my hand. I am expecting a visitor any…

Oct 21, 2023

These Few Precious Days

Oct 21, 2023

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My Commonplace Book(s)

I’m kinda starting the writing over. At 75. In more than one place. We’ll see.

Jun 8, 2023

My Commonplace Book(s)

Jun 8, 2023

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Sky Writing: The Big O’s Overhead

There are times when the sky over Floyd County, Virginia, looks like an Etch-a-Sketch, being constantly scribbled on, then wiped clean…

Jan 21, 2023

Sky Writing: The Big O’s Overhead

Jan 21, 2023

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SHROOMS

Things in threes…

Dec 12, 2022

SHROOMS

Dec 12, 2022

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Dinner is Served: A Vulture’s View of History

A black speck circles 800 feet above our woods and almost a quarter mile away. Without the binoculars, I can tell by its flap-flap-glide…

Oct 20, 2020

Dinner is Served: A Vulture’s View of History

Oct 20, 2020

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Room With a View

Self-isolated in our homes as we’ve been, we have much to be thankful for in the natural aesthetics we enjoy in the Blue Ridge Mountains —…

Jul 31, 2020

Room With a View

Jul 31, 2020

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The Day the Fire Went Out

Our twentieth year in the reclaimed 1874 farm house was our 72nd year on the planet. We moved in right before Y2K and loved everything…

Jul 15, 2020

The Day the Fire Went Out

Jul 15, 2020

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You Can’t Plant a Forest

“You can’t plant a forest” said poet W. S. Merwin in the film about his life called “Even Though the Whole World is Burning.”

Dec 27, 2019

You Can’t Plant a Forest

Dec 27, 2019

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Old Yeller Comes Home

A Story that could easily have had a different ending

Jun 25, 2019

Old Yeller Comes Home

Jun 25, 2019

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How Can I Keep From Singing

Found, a note to self from summer, 2003.

Mar 2, 2019

How Can I Keep From Singing

Mar 2, 2019

fred first

fred first

Blogger-photog and naturalist from the Blue Ridge of VA, author Slow Road Home ('06) and What We Hold in Our Hands ('09). http://fragmentsfromfloyd.com/stuff

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