I like to explore and tell descriptive stories about places. I also make jewelry, music and mixed-media art.
Jubilee Park, Ivanhoe, Virginia, mid-April 2024 Ivanhoe, the Fair now this is glamping true Revival, handling of the Serpentine embanked New (Kanawha) river The diva waters Still rush past this old railway, blast furnace and mine shaft left to history A fairground in the off-season, nearly empty Jubilee A small town that doesn’t need much […]
Read More Ivanhoe, the fair (a return)Roanoke, Virginia was initially called Big Lick, when it became a settler community in the 1800s, from the salt marshes by the river that would attract wildlife. The Warrior’s Path, and then the Great Wagon Road, came through this valley, forking here toward the south and west, serving as foundations for future transportation corridors like […]
Read More The Quest for Blooming Rhododendron near Roanoke, part 2: Stars, returns, and moments of esctasyMid April to Early May, 2018 As my sister and i travel ( she hikes, i support and hike some) north on the Appalachian Trail thru Georgia, toward North Carolina, the weather turns cold with two April winter storms passing through, bringing ice and then snow to the mountains. We freeze, some nights together and […]
Read More The Appalachian trail from N. Georgia into the NantahalaMarch 24-April 2, 2018 Finally, the central core of this cross-country trip has come — to drive with my spirit-sister Mamaluna to north Georgia so she can begin a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. On a stormy night from coastal Virginia heading southwest, we set out on a new journey, where all parts are exciting […]
Read More The Appalachian trail from Amicalola falls, and North Georgia memoriesMarch 17-20, 2018 I pick up my car from the mechanic in Berryville, Arkansas and drive toward Memphis, hardly stopping at all in between. There are pretty, rolling hills of farmland and a few towns in this part of the Ozarks, but no places as interesting as Eureka Springs. There were hopes to find crystals […]
Read More Another cross country drive 3 – the river at Memphis and on to AppalachiaMarch 14-17, 2018 From a cold blustery sunrise at Amarillo travel center and the cycle of truck stops to the forested hills of the Ozarks, i try to make it across the midsection of the land in one day. Friends in Arkansas have invited me to visit and stay, and if i get there tonight […]
Read More Another cross country drive 2 – Oklahoma into Eureka Springs ArkansasMarch 12-14, 2018 It is my first time driving back across the usa since 2011 and i am anxious about it in ways i never expected. Committed to supporting my spirit sister in her quest to thru hike the Appalachian trail, i leave the warm comfort of Tucson for the cool eastern woodlands with no […]
Read More Another cross country drive 1 – Tucson to New MexicoDates of travel- April 16-17, 2017, Easter Easter morning in Figueres….I ache as i wake and walk around the cool cloudy empty streets. Most businesses are closed. Across from the Dalí theatre, people slip into St Pere (Dalí’s church) for the 9 am service. In the cavernous chapel, voices reverberate…vague hallelujahs, a plain sermon, nothing […]
Read More Easter Roses, Cadaqués, and a friend at the Dolmen (Dalí 2)It’s cool and rainy as i arrive in Figueres, Catalunya, on Easter Saturday. There are no processions, but eggs line the roof of the pink Dalí theatre museum, and visitors stand in line out the door into the plaza that bears the artist’s name. Salvador Dalí converted this theatre of the town of his childhood, […]
Read More Dalí 1 – Figueres TheatreFrom the red isilines bus on the Via Domitia, a first view of the snow capped Pyrenees brings chills. But those peaks are not where i am going. The transit terminal of Perpignan, down on the warm plain, is the transfer point for travel to Spain and everything else, and also the main city of […]
Read More The most southern wine region in France / Entering Catalonia
arianna's creative travels 