beauty

I love my woods

October 25, 2010

I don’t know how I could forget, but I did. I forgot how much I enjoy walking through my woods. Any woods, actually, but right now especially my woods. Funny. Somehow in the last two months I had not gotten up to my 30-acre woods, not until just two weeks ago. Getting “NO HUNTING” signs [...]

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Sometimes You Have to Move to See It

September 15, 2010

Last night I woke around 3 a.m.; a tickle in my throat coughed me awake. In my foggy, dreamy state, I looked out the window and thought, “The stars have moved,” what with the constellations being different than when I’d tucked in and all. Of course as I roused myself awake enough to take some [...]

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A Visit From Pseudacris regilla

September 4, 2010

Found a new friend. He’s very pretty, I think. And damn hearty; can be found at elevations up to 11,600 feet. The Pacific Tree Frog. I like their singing, too.

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Eggs Are Simply Nice

September 2, 2010

This is my art today. This lovely wee egg that is less egg-shape and more just a nice ellipse. ellipse |iˈlips| noun a regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is [...]

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Malo, Washington home and acreage for sale – $239,000

June 4, 2010

Buy my sister’s house please. So she can move to Florida, and I can go visit her there and get some sunshine for pete’s sake. (Rain in Seattle ALL June, is that what’s in store?) Hand-crafted home on 4.29 wooded acres near Malo in Ferry County, Washington. A wrap-around veranda for watching the sun set [...]

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Gold at the End of the Rainbow

May 20, 2010

Yesterday there was a huge rainbow in the early evening sky. David and I saw it from my window; he explained that it was made up of particles and smog. I argued that rainbows are what happen when angels have orgasms. Later, in my sleep, I dreamed that the rainbow had come closer and closer [...]

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A place for pollen

May 12, 2010

It’s been awhile since I have added bits of very ordinary beauty. Found these on my walk tonight with Elke. These are ribbons of pollen, gathered at the edge of a pool in a park. Elke wasn’t too convinced of the beauty in the slime, but I saw it as floating tapestries. I bet she [...]

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Under the Magical Spell of Ricochet

April 6, 2010

I see something like this, I just want to fall in love. –Tiberio Simone, at just about the point when performer Laura Stokes opened her parasol and unleashed the rain from the trapeze. We were at STITCH, where we had already been amazed and mesmerized for almost an hour by the beautiful and impossible performance [...]

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