Or is that out of the habit? Quiet here lately. Work deadlines with more to do than the time necessary to accomplish them. 18 months with little billable hours. Now a salary and 60-hour weeks. Hrrumph. I like being busy, feeling productive, but I do miss those other kinds of active days, when I made [...]
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more on the garden
My Early Girl Isn’t She went in May Day a healthy start now 55 days past 60 she’s just blushing We only have 23 days until mid-September when summer is over if past history is evidence No one knows if we’ll have homegrown BLTs this year * * * What a sorry summer this has [...]
I don’t have an August garden
I don’t have an August garden and it’s too hot to weed Crease the leaves moisten your cracked lips there are no silk worms and we aren’t in the mythic forest the garden hose is kinked it frustrates the spray that can’t wash dusty cars, abandoned to bird shit and road tar. All those tender [...]
possessed
What do you wear to a heart attack? Orange flip flops decorated with sequins and beads stiff woven soles made in China, shipped to USA picked up in a seconds store in August Transplanted to Oregon I forgot how hot summer is in the Valley of the Sun and needed two new wardrobes one for [...]
missing words
(A confession) I’m going through my recent poems to find something to send to my critique group. There’s but one recent poem. (One!) Other candidates are not recent and are in need of revision that I can’t make in time to get to my kind readers. I have been writing August poetry postcards and have [...]
stubs
Unwanted Advances Succulent mosquitoes find me Molten……I am hot & heavy my breath full of iron They feed for eggs while I have none * * * I’m trying to do something different — for me — with this poem, which is what this week’s Big Tent Poetry prompt was about. I’ve been writing narratively as [...]
what can happen when you look closely
(Click a few times to get larger images.) Saturday we hiked a few waterfall hikes that we hadn’t before while on our Steamboat Inn weekend. Susan Creek Falls feeds the North Umpqua River and is a lovely, easy to get to hike. It’s fully accessible, and by some small gift of chance we had it [...]
back in the saddle, more or less
I’m back from a lovely trip.
away, away
Tomorrow starts a long weekend away. Away from internet, cell phones, television. To the North Umpqua River and the delights of a luxurious retreat in a beautiful place. We get a chance to visit with Lee Spencer, the Fish Watch volunteer, which is a highlight of our trip. We missed our yearly with him last year [...]
