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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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!
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