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Aiko and shadowJust a couple of miles from my house.FROZEN BIRDBATH WATERI was hoping to run into Laura Love at Magfest and I did!!!!Magfest Sunset Saturday evening...I missed part of Peter Rowan watching this sunset.Tom and Tara's armTara and JayJim, Jay and TaraJim Lauderdale with DTBOteil and Bobblehead Jesus. They both Rocked!The Fabulous Laura Love!Holes are what's left of my reason....

My Interests

Music, Music Festivals, Organic gardening, Reading, My dogs, Dogs in general, taking lots of photos, old photos, I like to swim in the creek and go to the Blue Hole and canoe Little River. I love books, old book stores, family history, medicinal plants, wildflowers. I love to wander around in the woods.CURRENT MOON moon phase info

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet Jerry Garcia, but I probably would not be able to speak. I have met him in a few dreams over the years.Arthur Ransome, the Swallows and the Amazons, and the D's. L.M. Boston, Robert McCloskey, Brian Wildsmith and Leo Lionni. I would really like to meet some of my ancestors. That might be cool. Maxfield Parrish.....Willie the dog, from Whistle for Willie. Babar the Elephant

Music:

First and Foremost The Grateful Dead. Donna the Buffalo. I fell for Snake Oil Medicine Show at Magfest! Vassar Clements, Peter Rowan, Dread Clampitt, Aretha Franklin,Laura Love, my nieces, The Duhks, Jim Lauderdale, Tony Rice, Norman and Nancy Blake, David Grisman, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Jerry Garcia Band, Old and In the Way, Crooked Still, The Avett Brothers,James and Rachel Bryan, Gandalf Murphy .......and oh so much more.

Movies:

Any movie with Barbara Stanwyck. Every Alfred Hitchcock movie.Bunny Lake is Missing, The Uninvited, The Honeymoon Killers, Freaks, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Long, Long Trailor, Bringing up Baby.

Television:

I love At Home with the Braithwaites on BBC. They need to run that series again.

Books:

READING: A Voyage through Time, Space and Your Head. I love all books. Books by Rick Bragg, J.R.R. Tolkein, The Mists of Avalon series, Swallows and Amazons series, The Secret Life of Bees, Daughter of the Mountains, Books by L.M. Boston, Philippa Pearce, Mark Childress, The Butterfly Tree by Robert Bell, Audubon Field Guides of course, ....the list goes on and on.....I'm excited to know I have several books waiting to be read...a whole stack. Yippee! One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Cloud Garden: A true story of Adventure, Survival and Extreme Horticulture, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I also have several magazine subscriptions I love to read....The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Archaeology, Organic Gardening, Relix, Nature Conservancy and Bon Appetit.

My Blog

Skunk at 3:30 am and beyond

I kept waking up several times hearing the dogs barking and smelling a slight smell of skunk. I just wanted to go back to sleep so I tried to not pay attention. But at 3:30 am something had to ...
Posted by Toseland on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:56:00 PST

Pics from the first day of Fall

These pictures were taken on the Autumn Equinox when I was walking around in the woods on Lookout Mountain. It was a great first day of Fall. Mushrooms, finally. This one was nibbled on by a s...
Posted by Toseland on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:51:00 PST

Jerry dream......and Bobby too.

I woke up this morning so very happy! I was having a Jerry Dream when I woke up. It was amazing. It started out as a long involved dream that I could not remember all of . It had to do with mystery an...
Posted by Toseland on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:52:00 PST

The Frog Pond

Here is a picture of the pond down at the bottom of the blog. That's Boone cooling off and getting a drink. Carl built the pond a several years back and it has a black plastic liner. It has natur...
Posted by Toseland on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:23:00 PST

A story of my great grandfather

The following article was written in 1956 by William B. Mauldin for his little family newspaper. .......... A young man of 21 slipped out of hiding one dark night and made his way North from th...
Posted by Toseland on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:41:00 PST

Rain on Tuesday

We did get 3/4 of an inch of rain at my house on Tuesday. That was a relief to my frazzled brain and to the plants and flowers. We are still under a rain deficit of 18 inches since January. The rain w...
Posted by Toseland on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:43:00 PST

Voter's pass Health Care Amendment in Alabama

With the passage of Amendment Two on June 5, Alabama education employees now have something that their counterparts in most other states do not have....( for once we are not last in something!)..........
Posted by Toseland on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:06:00 PST

And then what happened....

After I wrote that last blog and the world was just most wonderful out here on the mountain, we had shockingly cold weather. That is now known as the BadAss Easter Freeze of '07. We had temps in...
Posted by Toseland on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:57:00 PST

It rained and then spring arrived

It took a good long rain to get spring to finally show up here on Lookout Mt. We had hot weather, but no rain at all and it seemed like spring would not get here....Everything was covered in pollen an...
Posted by Toseland on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:36:00 PST

There's no place like home

I am finally home after spending five days in the hospital with my mother. She was the one suffering and sick and I wanted to be there to help her, but I was so missing my home. I was without Carl, my...
Posted by Toseland on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:20:00 PST