JC SummarsApr 1, 20191 minCanyon Crow~ Hey canyon crow ~ wing-tipping the rim! ~ Riding the flow ~ of warm updrafts thin. ~ Where do you go ~ on a soaring whim? ~ What do you know ~ of landscape...
JC SummarsFeb 3, 20191 minBetty's Bay LeafEvery time I cook up a batch of spaghetti sauce, I think of Betty. I had not heard of bay leaf before Betty. She made its use special with a simple smile and...
JC SummarsJan 9, 201971 minAbbeville Pearls - Part One~ A Mystery Novel ~ This is a work of fiction inspired by real experiences of my life. It includes passages of real events, people, places etc. as commentary...
JC SummarsAug 30, 20187 minToxic Town USA - Part SevenSTINK vs STENCH ~ The final day of the documentary shoot, we woke up to a horrible stink in the house. Southwestern Oklahoma was dealing with a severe skunk ...
JC SummarsAug 5, 20181 minFirst BerriesGathered first chokecherries of the season this morning from a patch near the county road. It's always first to ripen up and first to get harvested by bears,...
JC SummarsJun 19, 20182 minToxic Town USA - Part SixA PERFECT STORM ~ Success did not come easy for the Russells. Thirteen years working together, Harley and Annabelle kept an open mind as each business endeav...
JC SummarsMay 28, 20183 minToxic Town USA - Part FiveSTAMINA & STOICISM ~ The entire duration of the documentary shoot, I lived in the Russell's Redneck Castle with them–sleeping on their fold-out sofa bed at o...
JC SummarsMay 26, 20185 minToxic Town USA - Part FourBAD AFTER GOOD ~ Although Erick was never really part of the dust bowl, it was close. As a child living in Sayre less than sixteen miles to the east, I can r...
JC SummarsMay 11, 20183 minToxic Town USA - Part ThreeCOMPETITION? ~ I once stopped at a brand new Route 66 roadside attraction shortly after it opened. It was a museum established in an old café and drugstore b...
JC SummarsMay 11, 20183 minToxic Town USA - Part Two21st CENTURY STARTUP ~ My earliest years of life were spent living in different towns located on or near Route 66 in Oklahoma which meant we spent a lot of t...
JC SummarsApr 22, 20184 minToxic Town USA - Part OneSUCCESS AT LAST ~ Growing up, I lived in several places from small towns of meager populations to a sprawling city of more than four million people. A centra...
JC SummarsMar 13, 20182 minSimple PleasuresSome years there is an abundance of choke cherries and I never hesitate to harvest as much as possible anywhere bears are not feeding on them. Last year a la...
JC SummarsMar 2, 20183 minToxic Town USA - Part ZeroHARLEY & ANNABELLE'S TOUCH ~ A decade before the turn of the century, a friend asked me to join him playing in a folk and bluegrass music festival happening ...
