Glass Artist
Today I went down to the Town Hall, otherwise known as Command Central, to check in with Dee and get addresses to send out more announcements about the availability of RedStaterWisdoms. To date, I've only leaked the blog out to just a handful of people here in town and the response has been very good.
While I was there I ran into Verna Austin who is just amazing for her age...90 I think. We stood out in the sun and talked about driving cars. She doesn't like to do it anymore than I do. The difference is, Verna's 90 and I'm....well, anyway, we both agreed that we should stay off the road when it's dark or icy. Now I'm remembering the time I lost control on an icy Tannery Creek Road up by the falls. I spun like a top three times in a row and did a sling-shot kind of thing back and forth until I reached the end of Tannery Creek by the Fire Station. I was more embarrassed than I was scared and thank God there were no other cars on the road. Verna and I know our driving limits.
I met Rev. Hand from the Lindley Community Church when he stopped by to do business with Dee. Nice fellow. We talked about blogging and computer technology. I came to it kicking and screaming. He said he did too. Look for Community Church announcements on the blog. Word has it they're going to start a "Clothing Pantry" at church. It's a great idea and as Dee said, they'll have no trouble getting people to donate. She has a couple of growing boys who don't stay in the same size for long.
I had grabbed my camera thinking after I left Dee's I would cruise around town and look for a good picture to post on the blog. Dee suggested I go to Cramer's Corner and check out the Road Crew who were there fixing the pretty major washout. I cruised on down, but the boys were gone. By the way, they did a fine job filling the dirt back in where the water had taken it out. That corner's hard enough to manage without running off the road into what was a sizable ditch, more like a drop off, before they fixed it. So I returned home empty handed. No picture. Then I thought of the photo archive I have from when I published the Lindleytown Newsletter. During those years I took hundreds of photos and was only able to print but a few in the newsletter. Then my dilema was, "which ones do I post?" Easy enough. I'll post the first disk from the file box. And what a lucky score!
Dick Williamee who lives on Church Creek Road has a glass blowing studio attached to his house. I forget who told me about Dick's studio, but I went to see it thinking I would do a feature story on him back when I published the newsletter. I was fortunate to come to know many Lindley artisans "hidden" on back roads and in garages and would write about them often, but I folded the newsletter before I did Dick's story.
The photos I have posted are from three years ago. It's a sampling of his work and a bit of a tease. I plan to get back up to Dick's and do a real indepth story on the art of glass blowing in the hollows of Lindley.
I'm not sure many of my readers know how to get to "more photos" from the blog so I'll instruct you as to how to do that. Click on any picture that I post, in this case the photo of the glass mushroom, and it will take you an enlargement of the photo. Above the enlarged photo you will see "Sallyann's photostream". Click on that and it will take you to my photo page where I have posted many pictures of people from Lindley. Scroll down to the bottom of the photo page and find a link to more pages. I think I have four or five pages filled with photos. Click on 1...2...3...4 and that will take you through my current album. When you're through viewing them, just click your back button until you return to the photo you originally clicked on in the blog. You'll know when you're there because when you click the back button the same photo keeps showing. Click X and that will close you out of "flickr" and take you back to the blog.
Often I will post more photos than what appears on the blog. This option is one of the great things about blogging, except now, people who see me coming with my camera will run for the hills worse than they did when I published the newsletter.
While I was there I ran into Verna Austin who is just amazing for her age...90 I think. We stood out in the sun and talked about driving cars. She doesn't like to do it anymore than I do. The difference is, Verna's 90 and I'm....well, anyway, we both agreed that we should stay off the road when it's dark or icy. Now I'm remembering the time I lost control on an icy Tannery Creek Road up by the falls. I spun like a top three times in a row and did a sling-shot kind of thing back and forth until I reached the end of Tannery Creek by the Fire Station. I was more embarrassed than I was scared and thank God there were no other cars on the road. Verna and I know our driving limits.
I met Rev. Hand from the Lindley Community Church when he stopped by to do business with Dee. Nice fellow. We talked about blogging and computer technology. I came to it kicking and screaming. He said he did too. Look for Community Church announcements on the blog. Word has it they're going to start a "Clothing Pantry" at church. It's a great idea and as Dee said, they'll have no trouble getting people to donate. She has a couple of growing boys who don't stay in the same size for long.
I had grabbed my camera thinking after I left Dee's I would cruise around town and look for a good picture to post on the blog. Dee suggested I go to Cramer's Corner and check out the Road Crew who were there fixing the pretty major washout. I cruised on down, but the boys were gone. By the way, they did a fine job filling the dirt back in where the water had taken it out. That corner's hard enough to manage without running off the road into what was a sizable ditch, more like a drop off, before they fixed it. So I returned home empty handed. No picture. Then I thought of the photo archive I have from when I published the Lindleytown Newsletter. During those years I took hundreds of photos and was only able to print but a few in the newsletter. Then my dilema was, "which ones do I post?" Easy enough. I'll post the first disk from the file box. And what a lucky score!
Dick Williamee who lives on Church Creek Road has a glass blowing studio attached to his house. I forget who told me about Dick's studio, but I went to see it thinking I would do a feature story on him back when I published the newsletter. I was fortunate to come to know many Lindley artisans "hidden" on back roads and in garages and would write about them often, but I folded the newsletter before I did Dick's story.
The photos I have posted are from three years ago. It's a sampling of his work and a bit of a tease. I plan to get back up to Dick's and do a real indepth story on the art of glass blowing in the hollows of Lindley.
I'm not sure many of my readers know how to get to "more photos" from the blog so I'll instruct you as to how to do that. Click on any picture that I post, in this case the photo of the glass mushroom, and it will take you an enlargement of the photo. Above the enlarged photo you will see "Sallyann's photostream". Click on that and it will take you to my photo page where I have posted many pictures of people from Lindley. Scroll down to the bottom of the photo page and find a link to more pages. I think I have four or five pages filled with photos. Click on 1...2...3...4 and that will take you through my current album. When you're through viewing them, just click your back button until you return to the photo you originally clicked on in the blog. You'll know when you're there because when you click the back button the same photo keeps showing. Click X and that will close you out of "flickr" and take you back to the blog.
Often I will post more photos than what appears on the blog. This option is one of the great things about blogging, except now, people who see me coming with my camera will run for the hills worse than they did when I published the newsletter.
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