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 [...]
Posts under ‘West Coast’
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 [...]
crazy fun
This Friday, the last day of National Poetry Month, I’m being interviewed by Nicole Vulcan for KBOO’s Bread and Roses show. It’s live around 6:15pm (ish). We’ll be talking about combinations of Portland, women, poetry & Big Tent Poetry! I get to read a couple of poems, too. (So I need to figure out which [...]
spring
(Click through a couple of times to get to larger images.) Birds quiet tend invisible nests blossoms lose their hold * * * “We treat them like decorative objects in our gardens and homes, arranging and positioning them to please our aesthetic sensibilities. However, plants are alive and aware, reacting at speeds too slow for [...]
finding pattern
I’ve always been drawn to drawing, to geometric forms, to finding pattern, observing nature. I’m not saying that’s unusual — it’s human nature to create order, find meaning, look for causal relationships. It’s a way of making sense, it’s an attempt to order and control our world. At its heart it is a way to [...]
Wednesday
slow decay seeps, still for the lens wind whips silver grass froth rush music: whooosh a warm sun spins this tender spot a chorus master with deft baton
anniversaries
(Click through to get to larger and uncropped images, as always.) Sandy River Delta (aka 1000 Acres) was gorgeous Friday. Warm weather and blue skies started the walk — and the temperature would beat the average by 14 points. it was warm enough to set the frogs anthem, and to call in a heron to [...]
