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October, 2009 - Issue #101

 

COLORADO BEAUTIES    

Emily, Molly, and Amy joined us from Colorado for some lovely weather and great music.

 

SHAKORI HILLS - A MINIATURE WOODSTOCK

 

The five of us enjoyed every aspect of this year's Shakori Fall Music Festival including our Friends, all of the Fun activities and most of all, the Bands, which included our favorites, The Gourds and Donna The Buffalo.  Check out all four pages!

 

AT CAMELINA

 

We took one night off from the festival and created an exquisite meal of fresh, local food.  Amy playfully put together a salad.

 

NEIGHBORHOOD TO BE

 

Amy took these photos at Edible Earthscapes when we went over there to introduce them to our future neighborhood.  We'll soon be moving next door to this lovely farm. 

 

ON THE TRAIL

Ever playful, Amy, Emily, and Molly stand on the little bridge Lyle and Arlo built, pretending to look down into a chasm.

 

VINES AND SPIDERS

 

Bob took the girls through the woods to view the Disc Golf Course, Augusta.  When they returned, Amy took this picture of a spider in front of the Princess Palace.

 

ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER TRAIL RIDE

 

Camille joined her friends Nancy, Karen, and Lisa for another stellar ride on the American Tobacco Trail.  More photos at Heads Up 2009

 

WOMEN AT WORK

 

Tami tucks some new plants into the Biowall while Christine oils the kitchen counters in preparation for this year's Amazing Pepper Festival.

 

SMART WAY TO UNLOAD A KEG

Dan demonstrates why you can't have enough gray-haired people on project.  After Camille and Christine fetched a full-sized keg from the local brewery, they realized they weren't strong enough to unload it.  Like females everywhere, we called upon the first male we saw for help.  Dan said he'd help in a minute and walked off.  A few moments later he returned, driving a forklift and lifted that keg out of the trunk without touching the car, then drove it into the walk in cooler and lowered it carefully to the floor. 

 

CAPTIVATING BLOOMS

           

Bob planted a lot of pollinator plants this year, among them these brilliant cosmos which successfully captured the attention of the bees.

 

BEAUTY IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

 

The woods are full of civilization's cast offs.  After a time, they begin to look more like art than junk.  At least in some people's eyes. 

 

EARLY MORNING AT THE PLANT

 

Camille caught these images of early morning sun on the asters and on a small section of Kimberli Matin's 100-some foot long aluminum sculpture at Piedmont Eco Industrial Park.  Click on the frog to view a larger image.

 

TREES OF MANY COLORS AND STRIPES

 

This month at Oilseed, the trees are turning color, while the bananas at the Eco Park are holding on until the first frost.

 

STICK HOUSE SCRAMBLE

Dana, Simon, Jessica (not shown) and Matt scrambled to remove the contents of the stick house in the hour before it was hauled away.

 

JACKED UP

 

The owner worked for months to put things in place for moving the house he began building on his brother's land.  His brother sold the land to a developer who leased it for three years to our group.  With everything finally in place, the owner of what we had come to call the "Stick House" hired a crew to jack up the house and move it one street over.  They finished ahead of schedule, causing last minute mayhem for our friends.  

 

AND THEN IT WAS GONE

 

After helping move some of the stuff from the Stick House to another house, Camille ran an errand.  When she returned she found an empty space where the house had once stood with tracks to show where it had been hauled across the hay fields.

 

ANOTHER COLORADO VISITOR

Shaine Tyson spent a couple of nights at Camelina when she was in town to present at the Biodiesel Comprehensive.  We cooked a nice meal one of those evenings and enjoyed some quality time with Shaine and Matt.

 

TALL TALES

 

How big was that bear, Shaine?  It was a perfect night for spitting and telling lies.   We had lots of fun taking turns telling stories and it was a night to remember.

THIS MONTH'S QUOTES:

"Yes there is a difference between Republicans and Democrats. One has no heart and the other has no spine. But they both work for the same crime syndicate." - Joe Bageant from One Party

"Both factions of American political life indulge in the fiction of control. History is reality's big brother. It is taking us someplace that we don't want to go, so it will probably have to drag us there kicking and screaming. For starters, both reality and history will probably take us out to some woodshed of the national soul and beat the crap out of us. That could be a salutary thing, since the crap consists of all the lies we tell ourselves. Once we're rid of all that, we may rediscover a few things left inside our collective identity that are worth regarding with real self-respect." - James Howard Kunstler from  Dreams Die Hard

"The media gives a false proximity to the incidental, but a false distance to systemic wrongs." - Jay Griffiths from The Sound of One Trickster Clapping

"The collective human imagination is a treacherous place." - James Howard Kunstler from The Fate of the Yeast People

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