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Company's Coming

I'm going to Roanoke later today to pick up a photographer buddy from Florida who's flying in for a week's visit.  I'm looking forward to the time...

Hiking

This was taken on one of my hikes while in the Tetons. FYI, the woman in the foreground is 80 years old.  Pretty darn impressive under any circumstances, but all the more considering we were at 8,000 feet. 

Plenty

Last year the latest wonderful idea of a motivated couple turned into reality here in Floyd.  They began asking farmers to donate food to give to those in need and asked some friends to help distribute it. We all called it Portable Produce.  The couple  had already started a Healthy Snacks Program for school children, and too, were the coordinators of something called Empty Bowls.  That's an annual event where people can, for $10, fill up a bowl of their choosing...donated by local potters...with soups, breads, and desserts that were made by volunteers.  You eat, then you get to go home with the bowl.  Last year it raised $5,000 for the Backpacks For Kids project. 

Back to Portable Produce...the farmers and gardeners who participate display these flags...

Here's a closeup of one...

There's even a participating garden at the elementary school tended by the children.

 

This year, McCabe & Karen decided to incorporate all three ventures under one umbrella and they call that umbrella Plenty.

 

Photo Hunt - Books

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This kid was studying the baseball program book so intently that he reminded me of my grandfather who used to do the same.  It was nice to find that everything hasn't gone electronic!

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Photo Hunt - Hands

Hands are very...well...handy to have.  They enable us to many things, not the least of which is talking!

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People In Motion

After a week of hiding from the sun...from the world, actually...I paid a visit to a local park.  It was a perfect type of day to spend outside and evidently I wasn't the only one who thought so.  

There were cricket players... 

soccer players...

casural roller bladers...

and more aggressive ones...

 and then, there were the skateboarders. 

The only places that were idle were the baseball diamonds.  Nary a one was being used.  It seemed sort of sad to this ex-softball player.

Even so, it was great to see all the action.  Good times on the cheap!

Wordless Wednesday - Lost In Thought

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A solitary woman lost in thought..or was she just blissing out in the sun?.


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Photo Hunt - Sad June

I think this actually goes past the point of "sad", but there's no doubt I wasn't happy.  I think that mom took my blankie away...something from which I was seldom separated.

After spending a day in Virginia Beach recovering from jet lag, I'm hitting the road  for the last leg of my trip: driving back to Floyd where Judy and Shaynee are waiting to greet me.  I'll not be visiting any Photo Hunters today, but will tomorrow...I'll have lots of time while doing laundry!

 

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Photo Hunt - Strings

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This scene caught my eye while in Alexandria, Virginia...children tethered together on a rope...I'm calling it a string today.  I'm told that this is a scene repeated numerous times every day.  It seemed that way.  I think I was the only one around to have given it a second look. 



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