Lightening fast fiddle playing, banjo pickin', keeping time on the doghouse bass, mandolin, and guitar strumming was the first concert of the season in the open barn at the John Campbell Folk School last night. We enjoyed Bluegrass music performed by four very talented locals from neighboring Culberson and Shoal Creek, NC, and Cherrylog and Dahlonega GA.
Cliff helped me set up at the famers market this morning then rode his motorcycle out to a friend's house to play with towers, co-axes, and tangled wires. Across from my tent was this sign made by a nine-year old boy who's at the market weekly with his mother. Sometimes he's a cartoonist. Other times he's selling painted rocks. Today this was his schtick.
He told me he talked to some pretty strange people. "Kids says the darndest things."
Unusual day today. A large per cent of us have lived in Florida at some point so at the market one often hears vendors and visitors asking what part of Florida are you from? This one woman, who was purchasing something from me, said she was in Murphy living in her friends' house for six months caring for the cats and the house while the friends were in CA. She was a retired art teacher from Florida. Of course, I asked where. Her reply was Pine Ridge High in Deltona. I told her we moved from Deltona seven-and-a-half years ago. Come to find out, Cliff was her MIS person for years at Pine Ridge. Soon after that another woman was shopping at my tent and once again the conversation turned to what part of Florida are you from? This couple is visiting here from Deltona and the husband lived in Enterprise all his life. They are both anxious to retire and move to the western North Carolina area. There seemed to be lots of connections and energy today floating around the market. A young pregnant mother with her toddler in a sling resting on her hip asked if I might be interested in making the toddler slings. She owns Studio 58, the yoga studio where I attended some evening yoga classes, and took an interest in my new yoga bags. Very energetic day!
Cliff helped me set up at the famers market this morning then rode his motorcycle out to a friend's house to play with towers, co-axes, and tangled wires. Across from my tent was this sign made by a nine-year old boy who's at the market weekly with his mother. Sometimes he's a cartoonist. Other times he's selling painted rocks. Today this was his schtick.
Unusual day today. A large per cent of us have lived in Florida at some point so at the market one often hears vendors and visitors asking what part of Florida are you from? This one woman, who was purchasing something from me, said she was in Murphy living in her friends' house for six months caring for the cats and the house while the friends were in CA. She was a retired art teacher from Florida. Of course, I asked where. Her reply was Pine Ridge High in Deltona. I told her we moved from Deltona seven-and-a-half years ago. Come to find out, Cliff was her MIS person for years at Pine Ridge. Soon after that another woman was shopping at my tent and once again the conversation turned to what part of Florida are you from? This couple is visiting here from Deltona and the husband lived in Enterprise all his life. They are both anxious to retire and move to the western North Carolina area. There seemed to be lots of connections and energy today floating around the market. A young pregnant mother with her toddler in a sling resting on her hip asked if I might be interested in making the toddler slings. She owns Studio 58, the yoga studio where I attended some evening yoga classes, and took an interest in my new yoga bags. Very energetic day!
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