Rock Flipping Day

Alas, I found celebrating a 90th birthday more wearing than I’d expected, though the day was a great success and my mother even danced a short jig to the live music being supplied, in best country tradition, by her friends and neighbors. Still I didn’t make a rock flipping post of any kind, an omission I’ll try to make up for now.

Kudos for the day have to go to Fred Friendly’s Fragments from Floyd (County in Virginia) for RockFlippin on Goose Creek. When Gin Petty told me about this day, she told me that both poets and raccoons were in the mix, and Fred has supplied the raccoon.

From my blogroll here, Harry of Heraclitean Fire got a nice shot of a leopard slug and Rebecca at Pocahontas County Fare found a rock she could flip over.

sbpoet supplies the poem, and in the Missouri Ozarks, Roundrock Journal did flip up a small copperhead.

Gin reports “All I found were huge cracks in super dry dirt.” It would nevertheless be much worth your while to visit Gin’s journal. The description of her paper- and basket-making processes is great reading and you’ll find photos of the exquisite products of her art.

The Flickr set of photos is here. And be sure to visit Via Negativa for the full set of links and his lovely photo of Narceus millipedes.

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