the meadow is starting its summer stream of blooms...: penstemone, orange hawkweed and ox-eyed daisy
June 14, 2008
June 10, 2008
May 14, 2008
violets on a mountaintop
furry violets in Joseph Allen Skinner State Park, on Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts
March 17, 2008
bring this
On the red spool table bring:
Dylan Thomas book
Ken Rexroth paper poetry stapled two
book Beat Reader, 2 guys on the cover
envelope rejection slip
tan corduroy hanging in closet patches on elbows
2 shoes
Dylan Thomas book
Ken Rexroth paper poetry stapled two
book Beat Reader, 2 guys on the cover
envelope rejection slip
tan corduroy hanging in closet patches on elbows
2 shoes
February 28, 2008
snow for to ski
X-country skiing in the McDonald woods mud trails, snow was deep and a red-tailed hawk overhead.
January 28, 2008
winter's hard slumber
Tree. Rock. Cold. Cat. Wood. Fire.
That sums up the past 3 months of winter. Every night we look at the neatly-made bed as a place to go and drink a cup of sleep -- it is there, we can see it, the unshaped deep dark softness -- but every late early am it isn't there, it all goes sifting through my fingers, sleep
Here is a string from the comics page one day:
"here ya go Bently, ok ok Johnny what is it, when our coffee is all gone, what is it andy what have you found, a bowl of corn flakes and a bottle of beer, but something is mighty fishy with this heist, betrayed by tuna, my whole world is upside-down, sigh weeks of fretting over Ben all for nothing, it's vital I study the geyser of steam at once, I wonder if this dress needs washing, Betty and I are going shopping for clothes! you can join us!"
That sums up the past 3 months of winter. Every night we look at the neatly-made bed as a place to go and drink a cup of sleep -- it is there, we can see it, the unshaped deep dark softness -- but every late early am it isn't there, it all goes sifting through my fingers, sleep
Here is a string from the comics page one day:
"here ya go Bently, ok ok Johnny what is it, when our coffee is all gone, what is it andy what have you found, a bowl of corn flakes and a bottle of beer, but something is mighty fishy with this heist, betrayed by tuna, my whole world is upside-down, sigh weeks of fretting over Ben all for nothing, it's vital I study the geyser of steam at once, I wonder if this dress needs washing, Betty and I are going shopping for clothes! you can join us!"
January 20, 2008
syncro I used to own
I used to own this 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon Syncro Minivan!
view more photos here
223,426 miles
- I was the original owner (and the legendary "little ol lady", having babied it and rarely took it over 61 mph!) I never had reason to take it "off-roading" -- except for the dirt roads that can be seen in some of the photos. Often went on state forest dirt roads for TrailCares (hiking trail maintenance).
- 4 + L speed Manual transmission, Baulk-synchronized with additional compound Low-speed traction gear
- water-cooled gasoline engine, 2.1 L fuel-injected engine, digifant engine management system
- Syncro 4-wheel-drive, ("all wheel drive"), manually-operated locking rear differential (what is this?)
- 14-inch steel wheels,
- high ground clearance, skidplates underneath
- Folding rear bench seat/bed combination ,
- 2 rear-facing removable seats **, grey cloth interior, rear compartment heater, 18.5 gallon fuel tank.
- Power rack & pinion steering, power front disc/rear drum brakes, independent front suspension, coil springs & telescopic shock absorbers, front & rear, double-jointed drive shafts
spent hundreds of nights outdoors in the van just parked in the driveway!
** Seats and bed are easy to fold up & down and/or take in or out-- see photos...
.
January 13, 2008
screen door
Blue ribbony day-o-way was yesterday for up the storm windows on the storm doors of the storm home we did put (for the first time in 2 years!). It was only beacause we were in need of screenage and thus kilt two birds with one cat... Little Miss Kitty (a.k.a. Frances Jr. Laptop) is not allowed to climb anything including stairs for 2 weeks so we blocked the stairs and put up the 2 storm door glasses.
January 03, 2008
cold cardinals comments
2 cardinals in the back pines in the morning, bright red blobs. So Very cold; made 2 meals of soup on the woodstove today.
I sure wish this blogger had a blog to link to but in lieu of that here are their thought-provoking commentary on society and the arts: read human stain's 2 comments here:
http://youngstownart.blogspot.com/2008/01/graffiti-pics-from-bears-den.html
I sure wish this blogger had a blog to link to but in lieu of that here are their thought-provoking commentary on society and the arts: read human stain's 2 comments here:
http://youngstownart.blogspot.com/2008/01/graffiti-pics-from-bears-den.html
December 16, 2007
wood day
Got up, fed frannie the cat, started fire in wood stove, made bowl of granola and toast & bologna sandwich and boiled water on woodstove for 2 cups instant coffee and read Farenheit 451; swept up, tested & strung up 5 strings of christmas lights, put cat out, washed dishes, made noodles and beans and beef veggie soup, watched episode of Sherlock Holmes, brought in wood from garage, found cat, put out cat, worked on dozen webpages of my site, read Funny Times newspaper, listened to some of A Christmas Carol. Wind blowing, boiled water on woodstove, listened to Prairie Home Companion 2 times, cat at the window, let cat in, work more on webpages, cat sleeping in front of fire, fed fire all day
November 15, 2007
travelling
Noisy freezing snow & sneet, cat on the carpet, red wool plaid, breaking up wood, "wandering thirteen valleys crying out, it coulda been me". Two nites ago warmer than it had been, cottontail bunny hopping around in headlights, 2 dogs run in front of the truck, one dark right before the model railroad church ( Uncommon Carriers), man running across street with coca cola. Kitty ignores her water bowl and drinks out of the giant green plastic watering can
November 12, 2007
cold hard dark
Peals of thunder and large leaves falling fast.
A lot of raining, little kitty makes itself at home half under a sleeping bag, cooked squash for supper, late for the nursing home in the black cold hard dark, in the black hard rain
A lot of raining, little kitty makes itself at home half under a sleeping bag, cooked squash for supper, late for the nursing home in the black cold hard dark, in the black hard rain
October 13, 2007
No War No More for you and me
No War No More book is now available here: click to view at authorhouse.com
Description:
These are poems, essays, artwork and photos for the cause of peace. We take a stand for peace, independently and collectively, artistically and politically. In these times it is imperative not to let slip through one's hands the opportunity to say again and again, with whatever means possible, creative and peaceful, that war is wrong, that love is the only path to peace, justice and freedom, and that we will not stray from this path no matter the consequences. This idea fed this project and I hope will feed the minds and hearts of those who share in our efforts by reading this book. A.F.Jenkins is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism & a peace activist. Her photojournalism can be seen at www.allreelimages.com Greenwood/Blue Lotus Press and No War No More grew out of the ideas and hopes of a few activists in the Mahoning Valley in Ohio. The philosophy of our press is rooted in a Buddhist, environmentalist and social consciousness.
Product Details:
Printed: 92 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, black and white interior ink
ISBN: 9781434309839
Publisher: Greenwood Blue Lotus Press
Copyright: © 2007 Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United States
These are poems, essays, artwork and photos for the cause of peace. We take a stand for peace, independently and collectively, artistically and politically. In these times it is imperative not to let slip through one's hands the opportunity to say again and again, with whatever means possible, creative and peaceful, that war is wrong, that love is the only path to peace, justice and freedom, and that we will not stray from this path no matter the consequences. This idea fed this project and I hope will feed the minds and hearts of those who share in our efforts by reading this book. A.F.Jenkins is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism & a peace activist. Her photojournalism can be seen at www.allreelimages.com Greenwood/Blue Lotus Press and No War No More grew out of the ideas and hopes of a few activists in the Mahoning Valley in Ohio. The philosophy of our press is rooted in a Buddhist, environmentalist and social consciousness.
Product Details:
Printed: 92 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, black and white interior ink
ISBN: 9781434309839
Publisher: Greenwood Blue Lotus Press
Copyright: © 2007 Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United States
preview only here:
October 07, 2007
too warm
Kids screaming in the too warm early dark; too warm the spider ponders the bounty of tiny gnat snacks filling its web; lights are on and the pool balls click: snickery dickery
Too warm, perspiring on the photo-maker, on the photo-taker, sun fries and our skin crawls, earth has a fever and us is viral
All we can envision is cupcakes, sweetcakes, wooden rocking chairs and a harmonica that gives you pnuemonia
"we're bringing in the sheaves" john-barley-corn, squirrels arguing in the oak leaves, and chipmunks under the wood pile, squealing
The heart-shaped pink-coloured catfood is gone but who ate it? Doug says, "meadow brother," coughs and pushes in another Stargate
All the Leaves Are Green and autumn will come with a shattering crash...little do we know.
Too warm, perspiring on the photo-maker, on the photo-taker, sun fries and our skin crawls, earth has a fever and us is viral
All we can envision is cupcakes, sweetcakes, wooden rocking chairs and a harmonica that gives you pnuemonia
"we're bringing in the sheaves" john-barley-corn, squirrels arguing in the oak leaves, and chipmunks under the wood pile, squealing
The heart-shaped pink-coloured catfood is gone but who ate it? Doug says, "meadow brother," coughs and pushes in another Stargate
All the Leaves Are Green and autumn will come with a shattering crash...little do we know.
September 06, 2007
chaos smells bad
"'The chaos smells very bad,'... p.352
Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art we're in trouble. Symbolic thinking in any kind would signal downfall, in Crake's view. Next they'd be inventing idols, and funerals, and graven goods, and the afterlife, and sin, ...and kings, and then slavery and war. "p.361
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (New York: Doubleday, 2003) , p. 352, p. 361.
Sending an unknown dark seed spirally down the drain, an oppressive sense of doom descends--a vision that heaves outward, "I can see the end and its about thirty miles form here...
July 11, 2007
walk of golden things
cicadas begin to sing walking back from Girard-town we see a Baltimore oriole brilliant from the viaduct over the railroad and also goldenroad (or goldenrod...) blooms now
June 04, 2007
bricks and stones
just a random check of contacts' latest photos popped this into view while just happened to have WWOZ playing , thanks Samantha ( her music place ) Patti Smith just came on with a stuttering promo for "community" radio as opposed to "Public" radio (yahooie). The deejays are great...JellyRollJustice is coming up next, then it's Problem Child ("Wake up with the Problem Child in the morning and your problems will go away")...Tom Waits (singing not a DJ), other singers:"take me to the electric chair", "dig my grave with a silver spoon" and "please help my brothers in Vietnam"...
http://www.flickr.com/people/qichao/ Bricks photo is by amanda qichao who has terrific work displayed on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/people/qichao/ Bricks photo is by amanda qichao who has terrific work displayed on Flickr
June 03, 2007
June 02, 2007
windstorm
raining and storming llllllllllllll.............llllllllll high wind gusts ripping the limbs off trees, sadly. A baby coon cute as a brown-eyed button scramples tippy-toed over the porch stairs while its slack-limbed owner holds its leash. A large dog watches with great interest. On the return trip a rabbit glows red-eyed at the edge of the road with a mouthful of lawn still hours before dawn.
May 30, 2007
blue-eyed beauties
Our sweet blue-eyed grass from the backyard lawn now reverted to meadow, they are positively explosive this year, I never saw such tall, thick and heavy clumps, whata lotta precious fiery blue jewels they are, blue-eyed beauties springing all about the yard singing about rain and sunshine and heat. Cardinal sits quietly on the oak branch overhead watching.One can pick them out from all the other non-blooming (don't want to say dull!...) clumps of grasses because the grass leaves are like little thin tiny iris leaves for they are in the iris family. Here is more info: http://2bnthewild.com/plants/H192.htm They say "There are many species under the rubric Blue-eyed Grass with only slight details of their form to distinguish them. They are not grasses of course but instead related to the Irises."
Index- plants in this FamilyIridaceae / Iris
I assume it is the Eastern Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium atlanticum) but will have to measure.
May 22, 2007
Eagle's Nest flying over the land
One of the coolest and most exciting projects I ever participated in was helping to build this trail shelter (Eagle's Nest Shelter, on the Blue Mountain straddling Berks and Schyulkill counties, Pennsylvania.) In this photo (see credits below) I've circled the house we were living in at the time in Bernville. The National Guard based at Fort Indiantown Gap, used this task for practice, using their skycrane to ever-so-gently whisk our precious Swedish-styled scribed construction up to the top of the mountain in the blink of an eye. The Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club (based in Reading) led by David Crosby constructed it at Rentschler's Arboretum in Bernville. Cindy Ross and her husband Todd Glatfelter showed us the scribing method, a secure method of sculpting out the logs to hug each other.This photo was taken by Chris Johns, for National Geographic, page 99 in Mountain Adventure: Exploring the Appalachain Trail
c. 1988 by Ron Fisher, photos by Sam Abell illustrations by Alan Singer
Special Publications Division National Geographic Society, Washington D.C.
ISBN 0-87044-668-1
Special Publications Division National Geographic Society, Washington D.C.
ISBN 0-87044-668-1
May 20, 2007
May 12, 2007
May 10, 2007
May 09, 2007
cathouse
Came across this cathouse on the Palisades of Jersey...note the large bowls of water and milk and heap of pet food..it was a little spooky even in the bright warm sunlight, although it is probably a warm-hearted person at work.May 04, 2007
want candy, we want candy
Lancaster Farm Market goodies from the venerable Green Dragon... the shopkeeper behind the counter was happy to pack us samplers...I can't remember all these flaovors and he said more were on the way, canteloupe being one and sounding yucky....
April 28, 2007
April 20, 2007
blooming
big bed of tiny yellow violets, with arrow shaped leaves and purple stems & parts.
ants on the floor.
forzen inchworm -- or mummified, more likely-- on the door frame.
ants on the floor.
forzen inchworm -- or mummified, more likely-- on the door frame.
April 10, 2007
April 08, 2007
Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny is 2 doors down our street in someone's yard this Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday...they did a nice job sculpting the snowbunny...
April 07, 2007
notes to self edit me
slant 66 album-gregg brown song: Spring and All
Nat merchants album with Wayfarng stranger
warm breath breathing warmth balmy blow blows away senses.
sometimes one gets so tired of being a human on earth, so being just another animal yipping and pipping
silverfish in the bathtub
3/26/2007 4:00 PMcoltsfoot in backyard meadow
"like i kicked little cats around"Rush Limbaugh
I know where the silverfish play
3/29/2007 8:06 PM robins singing so bittersweet
yesterday mornign I had another in the series of The End of The Wolrds dreams again, everyone dropping like flies, floods, ice, disease
considerin'the major feng shui needed for the contents of rooms, living spaces, at dusk occurred that the gods always practicing their feng shui with us --htis one here and tha one here works better and lets throw out the worn out clunky one because nothing can get done in this world
"no borders no fences unbound" buffalo springfield going down
doug and chomsky under the hill where it went down, the shooting + the fear
4/1/2007 8:12 PM sun shone thru house straight thru. fuzzy bunnies fuzzy buns, bzzz bzzz bzzzz
4-2 flower list
4/4/2007 1:21 PM jobs u never think youd have editor,salesman, chef, excavator. gatthering faggots in the muddy woods
robin drying on the line, robin walking the ridgeline ogf the roof. Cold dropping in like november expectatikons
pale sherbert moon htru the pines
4/6/2007 7:52 PM steady wet snow 2nd day in a row. thick green grass showing in hthick patches . Really long icicles.
roasted a hotdog over the wood fire and ate with beans and cornbread
holly brought her borrowed inkle loom
4/8/2007 8 PM pecan pies depleted say dont cry....milling with the homeless heathen orphans us
4/9/2007 4:13 PM burnt lemon Still snowing; a redtailed hawk, a chickade and a cardinal all sing loudlyyy on turn . 89 inches of snow for season at Warren airport. and in the evening robins' trilling retiurns
4/10/2007 12:27 PM snowflurries house wrens.walking over girard bridge see blue heron and cottontail rabbit bouncing about
4/14/2007 1:04 PM Imus called cheney war ciminal repeatedly. blue heron tracks in mud on rock at river, heard ravens over the river valley, coltsfoot & arbutus barely open
4/15/2007 4:37 PM wind howling like a voice, ice particles falling from the sky
4/20/2007 4:46 PM spring beauties, bloodroot finishing, mertensia still budding, no full bloom, furry buttercup, 2 kinds toothwort, trillium still in bud inly, tiny yellow violet with spear-shaped leaves, marsh marigold,trout lilies (yellow), dutchman leaves, twin berries
4/23/2007 10:16 PM ants onthe tile in the morning, tornadoa warning in Pennsylvania
old september notes trip:yello tick-trefoil, queen annes lace, pink swet pea,orange daylilies goldenrod,pink crown vestch, white assters, Bastille DAy GET DATE, chew mailpouch tobacco
5/2/2007 Vickers nature reseerve--set at poolside long time waiting for peepers to resume, watvch lg frogs, some call; watch yellow warbler long time going around in thr shrubbery no clear virew,
5/5/2007 shenks ferry heard scarlet tanager
5/6/2007 meet the same porkie on the same place on 949, exchange same pleasantries
5/12/2007 late on 80 saw long slow meteor
5/15/2007 cardinal on head of dionysus --reading Barbara enrmerteich Dancing in the streets dianysus not about sex
and big red dog too
5/16/2007 11:16 PM dark matter evidence and up on the roof ladder nails big wind spring wind. Clever Jerry Fallwell Fall well, Jerry.out of the ashes of flint strikes sparks that light up the space in ypour head
5/17/2007 11:17 PM big red dog and fat bifg black dog
5/18/2007 cleomes are up; hear barred owl in the backyard
5/21/2007 8:40 PM what a waste of carbon--- & sometimes u forget which compromise was made for what and what price or how cheaply
may 29 fox or scat dissolves onto rock in the boulder field revealing rabbit foot with fur, moth wing and a lot of white shell bits, a shard of bone
6/2/2007 12:56 AM every now & then get a whiff of the Beginning, the smell of the long ago beginning
in th enorthern dead city & all i got was tis lousy purple tote
7-11 cicadas wlak see goldenrod and baltimore oriole
7/13/2007 6:50 PM clothes smell of smoke, like poor people, good poor, ---there are no good poeple
9/07/2007 magnolia blooming in Firt Lee
9-9-07 When did the name of campus police change from officially titled “Public Saftey” to “Security”
Magnolias blooming September 8, 2007
The seed on the sink and the end of the world
The jeep scene isn’t as real as my photos of it…the ground isn’t real because I’m not going to pull up the macadam and figure anything out
“he was tall, my everlasting soul” Ruby at Donna's
9/12/2007 Alex the Atwood mentioned parrot (Oryx and crake) dies;blu heron long & slow,, reddtail low swoop, clean & stiff-haired clean pink pigs on theirn way to heaven
10-06-07 74 degrees at 9 pm. hot and polish, children running with guns and chainsaws, a bold little girl waves her doll. Pacing the roof shilnglres , her head in the clouds, steering wheeel of the volkwagon belolow. Invasion of the cold bugs. Listewning to Odetta late sat nite. Morning started with larvae losing its balance on wooded kitchen table & tumbling backwards, whatcha get for leaving your acorn...
10-07-07 kids screaming in the too warm early dark; too warm the spider ponders the bounty of tiny gnat snacks filling its web;lights are on and the pool balls click snickery dickery too warm perspiring on the photo-maker on the photo-taker, sun fries and our skin crawls, earth has a fever and us is viral
all we can envision is cupcakes, sweetcakes, wooden rocking chairs and a harmonica that gives you pnuemonia
"we're bringing in the sheaves", john-barley-corn, squirrels arguing in the oak leaves, and chipmunks under the wood pile, squealing. The heart-shaped pink-coloured catfood is gone but who ate it? Doug says, "meadow brother," coughs and pushes in another Stargate.
All the Leaves Are Green and autumn will come with a shattering crash...little do we know.
10-08-07 what digitally impaired artfreak has not gone int glide upon simulataneous;ly drewamweaver supper dark headlites
10-09-07 lambs' ears at the door, dark hard-rock skies (colour?). spuce. onion fumes released gathered up nall the sicness ibn the house & hauled iyt out t o the edge of the road and threw tit in thre treash dumoper and wernt to the landfill and drained into the water supply and made th awolhole world sik. CAbn tell which waterris which the one from the faucet tastes like algae and th eone from the fridge pitcher tastes like iodine. sick to my stomach all day. all dya they cleared trees and stuff we watche wiht binoculars
10-11-07 for a minute we do not know what that odd sound isit is the sound of rain on the vent piipe cap falling in the dark cold. Our throats hurt, all of them. It is a race to keep up with not havinf something in our shopping bag of brown nabga grovceries carried in the door and on the wooden tablkel not to have a recllaed suspecte dof contaminatin ffod prooduct. By the time you go & come back form store has chnaged.
10-17-07 infection CRI radio shartwave croatia radio balllgames fundraising a very long press confernecec from the 14 yr old shooter in cleveland incident, ball games the Cleveland Indians playoffs, Burned a plate until it snapped, the spoons stove tile chipped . Doug foiund a dead tiny sparrow yesterday stiiting like asleep
10-18-07 tiny ants come in the nite to my gingrer orange lemon water in th ecup near my bed In the morning watch chickadees flitter about. warm wind blows. right ear has a continual reverberartion of every sound although only the higher pitches are very noticeable--like a fast echo in a valley. Very first writing on a "found " laptop pc in my own little preslumber nesting in blankets and pillows,,,coughing,,coughing ,,throat is tender over left-hand nodes,,,rib muscles get strained,,,th epc is stuck in timewarp stoned but is fine typwewriter. still warm today. forgot to eat last nite--pllanning on a milkshake tha tt did not materialize, i forgot to eat & got woker up twicw by tummy in pain --past the growkling & akll--- so little kids and families do go to bed hungry in america
10-19-07 scattering the dried asetr seeds they get stuck to my pile slippers; empty bottles coughing syrup, juiced lemons, ail of gingerly ailed. Its windy & there was lightening last nite
10-24?--day of the hundred train whistles and int to the night the whidstle out of the vallley
10-28-07 kitty in the attic
10-27-07the soundtrack to their lives is your beautiful by a pop singerhe sings it sleepily in th emorning getting in the car and it plays out of the [arked car
10-29?monday-07 a cirping sparrow the right temp & light and tone and it is ion the trail in the edgy solo late fall backpacks looking fo rth trail in brushy edge of woods , with ice on the edges of the brooks, frost on the brambles
11-03 doug showed me comet in the northeast after 9 near perseus Arrianne watched us curiously peeking aroiuund the corner of her porch. Every morning the big maple was a dif colour and now its lost most its leaves
11-05 thunder today and b ig drops; grey all day. Kitty came in yesterday and doug played bob dylan for her
11-06-2007 first blowing snowflakes, very windy and cold,kitty came in again but didnt eat much
11-12-07 peals of thunder and large leaves fallling fast. A lot of raining, little kitty makes itself at home half under a sleeping bag, cooked suash, late for the nursoing home in the black cold hard dark, in the black hard rain
11-15-07 noisy freezing snow & sneet, cat on the carpet, red wool plaid, breaking up wood, "wandering thirteen valleys crying out, it coulda been me". Two nites ago warmer than a bit, bunny hopping around in heradlights, 2 dogs one adark right before the model railroad church ( McPhee book here), , man running across street with coke. Kitty ignores her water bowl and drinks out of the giant green plastic watering can
11-20-07 the house has a hole in it thru which my kitty comes. sharp-shinned hawk in villlage on postal wlak thru roasting meat smells and cars full of driveways. he needs sweet scratch tunes to sooth the decay smack-gnarling grinding stabbing through. Huge yellow leaves sent down by trees to me, pages in all the books that people won't read
11-25-07 heard coyotes over towards the far northwest of Mcdonald at 3:30 am eerie yowls then yips then howls and then maybe all the area dogs replying--moon was very full and below 30 degrees, water freezing in the buckets
11-27--07 after dark heard what sounded like f lock after flock of snowgeese going overhead heading south calling; stars bright & large but lots of fast moving clouds; very gusty winds, square of moon on the tile floor
12-16-2007Got up, fed frannie tha cat, made bowl of granola and toat & bologna sandwich & bioiled water on wooodstove for coffee, 2 cups instant coffee and read Farenheit 451; started fire in wood stove , swept up, tested & strung up 5 strings of christmas lights, put cat out, wshed dishes, made nooodles and beands and beef veg sup , watrched episode of Shrlock Holmes, brough in wood from garage.found cat, put out cat, worked on dozen webpages of my site, read Funny times newspape, listen to some A Chrisstmas Carol. Wind blowinf somer, boiled water on woodstove, listen to Praire home camopanioin 2 times, cat in window, let cat in, work more on webpages, cat sleeping i front of fire, feed fire all day
Nat merchants album with Wayfarng stranger
warm breath breathing warmth balmy blow blows away senses.
sometimes one gets so tired of being a human on earth, so being just another animal yipping and pipping
silverfish in the bathtub
3/26/2007 4:00 PMcoltsfoot in backyard meadow
"like i kicked little cats around"Rush Limbaugh
I know where the silverfish play
3/29/2007 8:06 PM robins singing so bittersweet
yesterday mornign I had another in the series of The End of The Wolrds dreams again, everyone dropping like flies, floods, ice, disease
considerin'the major feng shui needed for the contents of rooms, living spaces, at dusk occurred that the gods always practicing their feng shui with us --htis one here and tha one here works better and lets throw out the worn out clunky one because nothing can get done in this world
"no borders no fences unbound" buffalo springfield going down
doug and chomsky under the hill where it went down, the shooting + the fear
4/1/2007 8:12 PM sun shone thru house straight thru. fuzzy bunnies fuzzy buns, bzzz bzzz bzzzz
4-2 flower list
4/4/2007 1:21 PM jobs u never think youd have editor,salesman, chef, excavator. gatthering faggots in the muddy woods
robin drying on the line, robin walking the ridgeline ogf the roof. Cold dropping in like november expectatikons
pale sherbert moon htru the pines
4/6/2007 7:52 PM steady wet snow 2nd day in a row. thick green grass showing in hthick patches . Really long icicles.
roasted a hotdog over the wood fire and ate with beans and cornbread
holly brought her borrowed inkle loom
4/8/2007 8 PM pecan pies depleted say dont cry....milling with the homeless heathen orphans us
4/9/2007 4:13 PM burnt lemon Still snowing; a redtailed hawk, a chickade and a cardinal all sing loudlyyy on turn . 89 inches of snow for season at Warren airport. and in the evening robins' trilling retiurns
4/10/2007 12:27 PM snowflurries house wrens.walking over girard bridge see blue heron and cottontail rabbit bouncing about
4/14/2007 1:04 PM Imus called cheney war ciminal repeatedly. blue heron tracks in mud on rock at river, heard ravens over the river valley, coltsfoot & arbutus barely open
4/15/2007 4:37 PM wind howling like a voice, ice particles falling from the sky
4/20/2007 4:46 PM spring beauties, bloodroot finishing, mertensia still budding, no full bloom, furry buttercup, 2 kinds toothwort, trillium still in bud inly, tiny yellow violet with spear-shaped leaves, marsh marigold,trout lilies (yellow), dutchman leaves, twin berries
4/23/2007 10:16 PM ants onthe tile in the morning, tornadoa warning in Pennsylvania
old september notes trip:yello tick-trefoil, queen annes lace, pink swet pea,orange daylilies goldenrod,pink crown vestch, white assters, Bastille DAy GET DATE, chew mailpouch tobacco
5/2/2007 Vickers nature reseerve--set at poolside long time waiting for peepers to resume, watvch lg frogs, some call; watch yellow warbler long time going around in thr shrubbery no clear virew,
5/5/2007 shenks ferry heard scarlet tanager
5/6/2007 meet the same porkie on the same place on 949, exchange same pleasantries
5/12/2007 late on 80 saw long slow meteor
5/15/2007 cardinal on head of dionysus --reading Barbara enrmerteich Dancing in the streets dianysus not about sex
and big red dog too
5/16/2007 11:16 PM dark matter evidence and up on the roof ladder nails big wind spring wind. Clever Jerry Fallwell Fall well, Jerry.out of the ashes of flint strikes sparks that light up the space in ypour head
5/17/2007 11:17 PM big red dog and fat bifg black dog
5/18/2007 cleomes are up; hear barred owl in the backyard
5/21/2007 8:40 PM what a waste of carbon--- & sometimes u forget which compromise was made for what and what price or how cheaply
may 29 fox or scat dissolves onto rock in the boulder field revealing rabbit foot with fur, moth wing and a lot of white shell bits, a shard of bone
6/2/2007 12:56 AM every now & then get a whiff of the Beginning, the smell of the long ago beginning
in th enorthern dead city & all i got was tis lousy purple tote
7-11 cicadas wlak see goldenrod and baltimore oriole
7/13/2007 6:50 PM clothes smell of smoke, like poor people, good poor, ---there are no good poeple
9/07/2007 magnolia blooming in Firt Lee
9-9-07 When did the name of campus police change from officially titled “Public Saftey” to “Security”
Magnolias blooming September 8, 2007
The seed on the sink and the end of the world
The jeep scene isn’t as real as my photos of it…the ground isn’t real because I’m not going to pull up the macadam and figure anything out
“he was tall, my everlasting soul” Ruby at Donna's
9/12/2007 Alex the Atwood mentioned parrot (Oryx and crake) dies;blu heron long & slow,, reddtail low swoop, clean & stiff-haired clean pink pigs on theirn way to heaven
10-06-07 74 degrees at 9 pm. hot and polish, children running with guns and chainsaws, a bold little girl waves her doll. Pacing the roof shilnglres , her head in the clouds, steering wheeel of the volkwagon belolow. Invasion of the cold bugs. Listewning to Odetta late sat nite. Morning started with larvae losing its balance on wooded kitchen table & tumbling backwards, whatcha get for leaving your acorn...
10-07-07 kids screaming in the too warm early dark; too warm the spider ponders the bounty of tiny gnat snacks filling its web;lights are on and the pool balls click snickery dickery too warm perspiring on the photo-maker on the photo-taker, sun fries and our skin crawls, earth has a fever and us is viral
all we can envision is cupcakes, sweetcakes, wooden rocking chairs and a harmonica that gives you pnuemonia
"we're bringing in the sheaves", john-barley-corn, squirrels arguing in the oak leaves, and chipmunks under the wood pile, squealing. The heart-shaped pink-coloured catfood is gone but who ate it? Doug says, "meadow brother," coughs and pushes in another Stargate.
All the Leaves Are Green and autumn will come with a shattering crash...little do we know.
10-08-07 what digitally impaired artfreak has not gone int glide upon simulataneous;ly drewamweaver supper dark headlites
10-09-07 lambs' ears at the door, dark hard-rock skies (colour?). spuce. onion fumes released gathered up nall the sicness ibn the house & hauled iyt out t o the edge of the road and threw tit in thre treash dumoper and wernt to the landfill and drained into the water supply and made th awolhole world sik. CAbn tell which waterris which the one from the faucet tastes like algae and th eone from the fridge pitcher tastes like iodine. sick to my stomach all day. all dya they cleared trees and stuff we watche wiht binoculars
10-11-07 for a minute we do not know what that odd sound isit is the sound of rain on the vent piipe cap falling in the dark cold. Our throats hurt, all of them. It is a race to keep up with not havinf something in our shopping bag of brown nabga grovceries carried in the door and on the wooden tablkel not to have a recllaed suspecte dof contaminatin ffod prooduct. By the time you go & come back form store has chnaged.
10-17-07 infection CRI radio shartwave croatia radio balllgames fundraising a very long press confernecec from the 14 yr old shooter in cleveland incident, ball games the Cleveland Indians playoffs, Burned a plate until it snapped, the spoons stove tile chipped . Doug foiund a dead tiny sparrow yesterday stiiting like asleep
10-18-07 tiny ants come in the nite to my gingrer orange lemon water in th ecup near my bed In the morning watch chickadees flitter about. warm wind blows. right ear has a continual reverberartion of every sound although only the higher pitches are very noticeable--like a fast echo in a valley. Very first writing on a "found " laptop pc in my own little preslumber nesting in blankets and pillows,,,coughing,,coughing ,,throat is tender over left-hand nodes,,,rib muscles get strained,,,th epc is stuck in timewarp stoned but is fine typwewriter. still warm today. forgot to eat last nite--pllanning on a milkshake tha tt did not materialize, i forgot to eat & got woker up twicw by tummy in pain --past the growkling & akll--- so little kids and families do go to bed hungry in america
10-19-07 scattering the dried asetr seeds they get stuck to my pile slippers; empty bottles coughing syrup, juiced lemons, ail of gingerly ailed. Its windy & there was lightening last nite
10-24?--day of the hundred train whistles and int to the night the whidstle out of the vallley
10-28-07 kitty in the attic
10-27-07the soundtrack to their lives is your beautiful by a pop singerhe sings it sleepily in th emorning getting in the car and it plays out of the [arked car
10-29?monday-07 a cirping sparrow the right temp & light and tone and it is ion the trail in the edgy solo late fall backpacks looking fo rth trail in brushy edge of woods , with ice on the edges of the brooks, frost on the brambles
11-03 doug showed me comet in the northeast after 9 near perseus Arrianne watched us curiously peeking aroiuund the corner of her porch. Every morning the big maple was a dif colour and now its lost most its leaves
11-05 thunder today and b ig drops; grey all day. Kitty came in yesterday and doug played bob dylan for her
11-06-2007 first blowing snowflakes, very windy and cold,kitty came in again but didnt eat much
11-12-07 peals of thunder and large leaves fallling fast. A lot of raining, little kitty makes itself at home half under a sleeping bag, cooked suash, late for the nursoing home in the black cold hard dark, in the black hard rain
11-15-07 noisy freezing snow & sneet, cat on the carpet, red wool plaid, breaking up wood, "wandering thirteen valleys crying out, it coulda been me". Two nites ago warmer than a bit, bunny hopping around in heradlights, 2 dogs one adark right before the model railroad church ( McPhee book here), , man running across street with coke. Kitty ignores her water bowl and drinks out of the giant green plastic watering can
11-20-07 the house has a hole in it thru which my kitty comes. sharp-shinned hawk in villlage on postal wlak thru roasting meat smells and cars full of driveways. he needs sweet scratch tunes to sooth the decay smack-gnarling grinding stabbing through. Huge yellow leaves sent down by trees to me, pages in all the books that people won't read
11-25-07 heard coyotes over towards the far northwest of Mcdonald at 3:30 am eerie yowls then yips then howls and then maybe all the area dogs replying--moon was very full and below 30 degrees, water freezing in the buckets
11-27--07 after dark heard what sounded like f lock after flock of snowgeese going overhead heading south calling; stars bright & large but lots of fast moving clouds; very gusty winds, square of moon on the tile floor
12-16-2007Got up, fed frannie tha cat, made bowl of granola and toat & bologna sandwich & bioiled water on wooodstove for coffee, 2 cups instant coffee and read Farenheit 451; started fire in wood stove , swept up, tested & strung up 5 strings of christmas lights, put cat out, wshed dishes, made nooodles and beands and beef veg sup , watrched episode of Shrlock Holmes, brough in wood from garage.found cat, put out cat, worked on dozen webpages of my site, read Funny times newspape, listen to some A Chrisstmas Carol. Wind blowinf somer, boiled water on woodstove, listen to Praire home camopanioin 2 times, cat in window, let cat in, work more on webpages, cat sleeping i front of fire, feed fire all day
March 30, 2007
warm weather brings brightly coloured things
Thanks, Anne!
A single origami from a friend led to many digitally painted variations; here's one to the right, and there are others to see here. }}}}}}}}} (By the way, the original paper piece is second one in from top left.)
Two cardinals fighting in the dusty driveway behind the truck; robins singing choruses morning, noon and night; toads or tree frogs are trilling in the dark.
