It’s a magical thing, this business of Dave DeRan showing his latest works of art. He usually sends me a card announcing the ‘upcoming event’ but I never seem to get it in time to put a little blurb in the paper. So, here I sit today, in his solar sunspace listening to “Blackberry Rag” […]
Living Legend Living In Cardiff
There’s a man living in Cardiff who joined the United States Marine Corps because ‘that’s where the fighting was overseas.’ He rode a Harley-Davidson motorcycle from Conowingo to Washington D.C. to lead a motorcade for the inauguration of President Harry S. Truman in 1948. Then rode it back in a snow storm behind a manure […]
Moonshine On Pikes Peak
Being a ‘cancer’ and likening that to the moods and ideas that befall me on a nightly basis, the thought of images of moonlight…or better yet, moonshine, fill my heart with joy especially when the images being conjured up are following the hand of Dave DeRan, artist of note living on Pikes Peak Road, just […]
Transformer Grinds Through Harford: Exelon Upgrade Headed To Peach Bottom
A transformer will be passing through Harford County in the near future and this one is no toy. Weighing in at 481,000 pounds and belonging to Exelon Corporation, the first of seven new transformers bound for the company’s Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station in Delta, PA will be hauled on Harford County roads over six […]
Drivin’ In A Drivin’ Rain…Familiar Face
There I was..drivin’ in a drivin’ rain while the radio was dragging it’s teeth amid rattle bound chatter….when what to my wondering eyes did appear…in the distance, several cars with four-way flashers on slowly proceeding the slow lane of I-95 southbound. It was a Saturday and the procession was of the funeral nature…only seven or […]
Will And All Us Dogs
With squatters on the East and squatters on the West, old Pilgrims north in Leeswood seem like old natives in this vastly different and rapidly changing world here at Rustica. The pup, Frisco, is doing fine, a little hardheaded, but a good dog. The feathery bantams, peafowl and Canada’s offer no playmates for this puppy […]
