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Month: September 2017

  • Making brushes and a walk in the woods

    I had a good weekend. On Saturday morning I drove to Chapel Hill and played with the Triangle Book Arts group. We spent the first few hours making brushes with bamboo and driftwood and deer tail and horsehair and feathers and various plant materials, then the last two we spent making marks with things such…

  • I think of all the things I want to write about constantly, thinking that I’ll start doing it after this, after that, and then I don’t do it. Then the words float away, buried by the debris in my anxious brain, or pushed away by mindless game playing that absorb my thoughts lest they go…

  • Colorado, Part III: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, etc.

    That morning we went to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument and saw the petrified stumps of ancient redwood trees. We walked the trails a little. They were gentle. It was a gorgeous day. We were disappointed that we couldn’t pick up fossils, but I guess that’s why it is protected with national monument status. There…

  • Colorado, Part II: Cripple Creek

    Early afternoon saw us on the road to Cripple Creek, Colorado with a stop for Mediterranean food in Manitou Springs. We fed a friendly little squirrel pumpkin seeds and saw an elk doe and two fawns on the way. Once we got there we checked into Cripple Creek Hospitality House, which turned out not only…

  • Colorado – Part I, Boulder

    View of downtown Denver as we flew in Going to Colorado to see my aunt and cousin and doing a bit of sightseeing has become an annual event for me. I love Colorado and its climate and its beauty and its skies and its mountains and its rivers and its plains. I’ve never been there…

  • My mood was so dark yesterday that this morning my shadow had a shadow. I feel better for the rant, though, and that the weekend is here. Here’s another photo from my walk to work: Sounds like Irma might take a path to the west, but of course, nobody can accurately predict a hurricane’s path…

  • The Apocalypse!!!

    All eyes on the East Coast are on Hurricane Irma, while Texas is still underwater and the West is on fire. Climate change deniers confuse and disgust me. I’m a person who depends on logic, and this kind of nonsense wouldn’t sit well with me even if it didn’t mean the destruction of our planet…

  • Eclipse Day in Greensboro, North Carolina

    I’m late to the party, as usual, but here are my photos from the Great Eclipse Day, where we had 93% totality in Greensboro, NC. I was ready with my hi-tech eclipse viewer, similar to the one I used in 1970. Unfortunately, this happened, which kind of confirms my suspicion that God is mad. So,…

  • Saturday Morning Coffee Pot Post

    Well, it started to be a morning post, until I ran updates on this seldom used, old and slow as hell laptop. Now it’s afternoon, but I’m still polishing off the coffee pot, so all is good. These are what just picked field peas look like. Some people call them crowder or Southern peas. They…