A First Time for Everything

During my evening walk, I discovered for the first time in my life there was honeysuckle blooming in October! I've always seen the mid-to-late May show, but October? Has this been happening every year and I've been too busy to notice? Maybe... And then it dawned on me, this is the first year (since the mid-1990's) I've been away from my involvement in Fluvanna County's Old Farm Day which happens on the first day in October. I'm usually tied up the week before the event and then I'm a tired zombie for several days afterwards. Maybe I missed the honeysuckle blooming in October because I was so preoccupied with Old Farm Day? I do tend to hyperfocus when I'm working on a project, maybe I've always had something in October to keep me from noticing the honeysuckle... Whatever the case, I'm ecstatic. Honeysuckle is one of my favorite flowers.

By the way, I hear Old Farm Day had a good turnout yesterday. My neighbor was kind enough to take my son with her two boys. I was at the premier Mountain Spirits Arts Festival in Rocky Mount, Virginia, with a Cedar Creek Publishing table. It was a bit breezy but hanging out with fellow literary minds and fresh mountain air was good medicine. For a first time event in Rocky Mount, they really did it up! Cedar Creek author Becky Mushko had a hand in planning the event and was in charge of the literary tent. I give the event an A+ for their red carpet service for exhibitors. Golf cart shuttle service to and from the parking lot... an exhibitor and volunteer hospitality room in the (warm) Franklin Center with coffee, tea, fruit, homemade chili and cookies... and not a snooty-thumb-up-their-butt "official" to be found!

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Feels good to be bloggin' again. Since my last post many months ago (shame on me) I have a new grandson, Isaiah Gray, born July 6... Speaking of which, it's time for me to Skype the grandkids. Peace!