MimiRock at Castle Yonder

This blog will share our life in the Appalachian mountains of SW Virginia. Topics will include wildlife, flora & fauna of the 84 acres on which we live; experiences with our domestic pets; visits from friends and family; some storytelling; issues of aging and cultural and social comments.

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Saturday, April 23, 2011

April Showers Bring May Apples

What do May Apples and Scotchmen have in common?

They both have something under their skirts!

Posted by MimiRock at 10:14 PM

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BOOKS I'VE READ IN 2011

"The Human Shadow" by Robert Bly
"A Widow's Story: A Memoir" by Joyce Carol Oates
"Emily Alone" by Stewart O'Nan
Dance Of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
2084--An Oral History of the Great Warming by James Powell
Travels In Siberia by Ian Frazier
"The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest" by Stiegg Larsson
"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" by Stiegg Larsson
"Wench" by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
"The Girl Who Played With Fire," by Stiegg Larsson
"South of Broad" by Pat Conroy
"Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova
"Barrel Fever" by David Sedaris
"Enchantress Of Florence" by Salman Rushdie

2011 Movies Viewed In Theaters

LIMITLESS with Robert DeNiro
THE KING'S SPEECH
THE BLACK SWAN

Movies Viewed On TV Or DVD - 2011

The Town

Dinner For Schmucks - Steve Carrel

Daisy Kenyon - Joan Crawford - 1947

This Woman Is Dangerous - Joan Crawford - 1952

The Hospital - 1971, George G. Scott

Social Network - 2010, Jessee Eisenberg

Terms of Endearment - 1983, Shirley McLaine, Jack Nicholson

All Quiet On The Western Front - 1930

Stand and Deliver - 1988

Too Young To Kiss - 1951, June Allyson

Tom Jones - 1963

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - 2010

The Girl Who Played With Fire - 2010

A Love Story - Capatalism, Michael Moore

Professional Storyteller

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Books I've Read in 2010 (Total of 17)

"I Still Dream Of You," Fannie Flagg
"Help" by ??? (I've forgotten)
"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver
"America's Women" by Gail Collins
"Goddesses In Older Women" by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
"Traveling With Pomegranates," by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
Death Comes To The Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (2nd X)
"Georgia O'Keeffe, An American Legend" by Jeffrey Hogrefe
"The Silk Road" by Jeanne Larson
"How Never To Look Fat Again"
"Long Journey To Freedom by Nelson Mandela"
"How Not To Look Old"
"Portrait In Sepia" by Isabel Allende
"What The Dog Saw" by Malcolm Gladwell
Lady MacBeth by Susan Fraser King
American On Purpose by Craig Ferguson

My Blog List

Granny Sue's News and Reviews

Lakeside and Ghosts
5 days ago
Everyone's Blog Posts - Professional Storyteller

Buck's ending P.S. financial support
5 years ago
Appalachian Lifestyles

Waiting on Dandelions
9 years ago
MS SPARROW

Suppertime, Westbrook MN--1950
10 years ago
MamaFlo's Place
Stony River: a writing life

Snow On The Roof!

BarBQue Cancelled for Today

Where Oh Where Is Summer?

Therapy Dogs

Lady and Rosie

Shady Sheep

Too hot for a wool coat

Sheep Dung Tea

Sweet or unsweet?

Hoosier Larkspur

Seeds sent by Indiana childhood friend and planted Fall, 2008 at Castle Yonder.

Beauty and The Beast

Abe, the gentle beast, and Bonnie, the feisty beauty

Louisiana Iris Along Wet Weather Creek

Purchased at a MS arboretum in 1998

Louisiana Iris Blooms This Year 2009

Has not bloomed for several years due to drought and/or deer.

Rocky and His Grouse

Time for lunch!

Well-Camouflaged

Can you find the grouse?

Mountain Greenery I

Mountain Greenery II

Mountain Greenery III

Mountain Greenery IV

Mountain Greenery V

Ol' Moss Back

Does this look like a moss covered turtle?

Clematis Climbs the Garden Shed

Red clematis (Ernest Markham), White (Henryi) with honeysuckle

Clematis Up Close

Ernest Markham about 15 years old

A BIG THANK YOU FOR YUMMY MEALS WHEN WE WERE DOWN & OUT

BECKY AND CHRIS VICKERS
PAUL AND DIANA CONCO
JACK MACFARLANE
NORRIS SPENCER
JEAN GAY-ASHER
RUDY AND LEIGH ANN BRACHER

Oops! This is NOT wild phlox!

Dames Rocket (Hesperis matronalis)

Pinkster Flower April 2008

(Rhododendron periclymenoides)

Flame Azalea (Rhododendron calendulaceum)

Close up view

An Early Tulip 2009

Scarlet lady!

Our Friend, Norris

April 27, 2009

Black Morel Mushroom

A nice specimen

Rocky Cooks Tonight

Black morels ready to saute

Barter Theatre April 1, 2009

Ben Mackel as Joseph

...Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Eugene Wolf and Mike Ostroski

Best Friends

You can still be good friends even if you're married!

The Uncalled-For Tour

A.O.Irwin, Bil Lepp, Kim Whitkamp

Before the Show March 28

Rocky, me, Diana Conco, David Claunch

After The Show

Good food, good talk, and best of all, GOOD FRIENDS

The Concos

Paul and Diana at the Olive Garden

Coltsfoot Rock

Coltsfoot chalk?

Coltsfoot

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Sping is here ye!

Tree (Need I Say More?)

Trees protect, embrace, and bless us.

Who Do You See?

Rapunzel or the Witch

Woody's Diner

A double hole hammered out by our resident pileated woodpecker last spring.

Blocked Opening

Did this tree heal itself? Or was the hole only bark deep?

Rocky Rockwell With Grandchildren

"An elderly man loved is like winter surrounded by flowers." Old German proverb

A Winter Mourning Dove

"It's going to be a good day."

The Big Read

Carson McCullers, author of The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Daffodils Lite

Tete a Tete mini daffodils gather around a solar light

Crocus Wall

Purple crocus bloom in rock garden.

An Indoor Spring Garden

Daffodils and forsythia

Purple Finches

Brown female and rosy male

Winter Moon Rising

As the sun was going down, the silver moon was coming up. Taken Sat. Feb. 7 on the lane leading into our property.

Stressless Anti-Gravity Chairs

Birthday Presents

Best In Show III

Son-In-Law and Designer Armas Koehler with my son, Alan Spooner

Best In Show I

Our son-in-law wins the trophy in Philadelphia

Best In Show II

Thousands of Vanda orchids used in winning display

Philadelphia Flower Show 2009

Winning display used tillandsia (air plants) with dusty roses.

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Philadelphia Flower Show 2009 modern

Amaryllis bulbs kept from the light produce eerie stalks as tho emerging from the garden floor.

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