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Monday, September 22, 2008

Troosha's autumn poem brought this one to mind...

HOMESTEAD: The Dutch Door It was spring and everything was new-- Life and love and everything, and everything we planted grew! The door you'd made was open wide, the scent of new wood on the air that brought the warmth of spring inside and stirred your soft and tawny hair... Summer came and baby's laughter rang through the vine-thick upper frame, and all the lullabies I sang... while lower, latch secure, kept little wandering feet within. Oh, summers then were sweet and pure... So many summers... Sign in to see full entry.

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For some reason, I got up at 5AM to clean house

It's an impulse that comes so rarely, I dare not defy it! It started as an idea of a particular photo I wanted to look up and make a copy of, which meant clearing a desk and getting to the computer that image is stored on. It's the one with Photoshop. But it has been wonky lately, about accepting memory cards via the reader hooked into the usb port. I found the image and didn't like it as much as I remembered. In fact, there is a lot of trash in those files. Have they degraded? Or were they... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 21, 2008

A new poem written over coffee in a bookstore

IN THE CITY In the city I remember green you can smell and breezes you can hear; Clean rain Silent mists Spider webs glistening and solitude that stretches far and wide… In the city I live with mostly greys, Harsh vivid colors slicing it in pieces; The smell of industy Burning coffee beans like tar; Howling traffic Pressing crowds, eye never meeting eye and solitude a tight defense around you… In the city time is cut in segments unforgiving resistant to the slightest alteration of The Plan: Run... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Poor puppy!

He is frustrated and aggravated today, fighting the big plastic collar they put on him yesterday to keep him from removing his sutures. Yes, he had The Operation. He came out with this plastic collar and we were informed we needed to pay for it yet... $20 for a thing that broke within the first hour he was at home. It is now held together with duct tape. Turquoise blue duct tape. We have a geek dog. He has, they tell us, fleas. Qu'el surprise! The Northwest rarely gets cold enough in winters to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Check in the mail! County Fair Pays Off!

This year my photos at the County Fair won two ribbons, and today I got a premium check for $11.20. Yay, I can really party now! Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Davy and I have been taking walks in the woods.

Around here, it is a lovely deep woods, the Pacific NW rainforest: beautiful trails through tall trees and lush ferns, beard-ish mosses hanging from branches, wonderful and strange fungi all of a sudden nearly underfoot... I spotted one today that should have been growing on a log, but it was just emerging from the ground, and it had an ivy leaf growing above it, but the stem of the ivy had grown up through the edge of the fungus. Davy is so patient... He is learning what "Still!" means... as I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Waking up...

in a comfy warm bed, and lap-top next to me--just a little indulgence that lets me check in on Blogit or email or weather report or whatever on a whim--and as I sit here doing that, Ninja the black cat leaps onto the bed from wherever he was lurking, and unlike a ninja, says hello and marches across the Land of Counterpane... encounters a small mound that makes a hostile sound: Violetta of the Velvet Paw frequently slides under the covers at night, and tucks herself in a warm place behind my... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 15, 2008

The robins on the windowsill

When I was a kid, from 1st grade to 5th, we lived in the upstairs apartment of an old carriage house at the edge of a Long Island estate. Oh, how I'd love to have such a place now! But this isn't about the charms of that old home. This is about the robins. From the window of our bathroom at the end of the house, we looked towards the neighbors who occupied another converted carriage house. Our landlady lived there with her husband who was a mysterious fellow who rarely spoke, and was supposed to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Wanna enter a photo contest?

Here's the link: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/photo-contest/photo-contest You can enter 6 pictures between now and the end of October. This is an international contest hosted by National Geographic, and one that doesn't just absorb all the photos entered as some contests do. Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Mood: Pleased and Perplexed

In December or January, I have an opportunity to do a show at a little cafe downtown. There is plenty of wall space, and I can pretty much put up what I like. The clientele is largely student/academic/whole-foods eating folks. This is the community of The Evergreen State College, if that tells you anything. Old hippies of the 60s know that what kids nowadays call hippies are not the way we were... but that's how my kids have always described the TESC community. There have been shows in this... Sign in to see full entry.

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