Mt. Dora
Happy sunny day from Mt. Dora, Florida! Bob and I drove down yesterday for the Central Florida Autoharp and Dulcimer Festival. I can report after one hour that this is a high-energy festival full of happy people. I can hear the fledgling hammerheads tapping out Mary Had a Little Lamb… a harmonica wafting from the distant recesses of the church (the choir loft? the organ bench? the secret spiral staircase?)… mountain dulcimer people are bumping headstocks and tailblocks from room to room… This is definitely a great place to be.
So we all just wish the dulcimer players from chillier climes had hopped onto the freeway alongside us. And too soon we’ll be heading back north. I wish we could take the time to go to Ybor City or look for manatees… could be a nice time to go AWOL… after all the snow and shivers up in Charleston.
And — the Waltz Book is done! More on that later. Gotta go teach.