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Too darned hot

August 4, 2010

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I like to read stories of the burning desert sands while winter blizzards pelt the Writing Studio and Bait Shop.  Last night, as a hot, muggy day descended into mosquito-filled darkness, I wanted . . . polar bears.  Jack London.  Blue ice.  I pawed through the Photo Archives looking for cold comfort, and found it.   I […]

Katherine’s hedgehog

August 3, 2010

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Katherine does not waste words. Not much to say about these, she wrote. I just liked the graphic when I eliminated most of the color. She did not mention the bee. Two or three years ago I came home from Providence Farm with my CSA share and a bonus: a dried flower that, like these, […]

Cue Theremin¹

August 2, 2010

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I am astonished.  Babs has produced her annual Sunflower Image and there is not a Triffid² in sight.  Just an innocent field of sunflowers, receding into the distance by the barn.  The Barn.  What is going on in that barn????  Triffid breeding, I’m sure of it.  Here are your footnotes: ¹Theremin ²Day of the Triffids […]

Ghost in the forest

August 1, 2010

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Yesterday was an unpromising, drizzly sort of day.  Dulleyed and droopytailed, we trudged along the road.  But wait, wait—what is that?  Deep in the swampy woods something white glowed.  Well.  A person who goes walking with a terrier and a spaniel becomes intrepid.  Off we went into the swamp. Indian Pipe!  I had never seen […]