After dusk I walked out back. Walked across the soft ground still rejoicing from the rain of several days ago. Walked in that evening light that follows the invisible-gray but precedes the black. Walked with a pail in my hand. A steel pail with a lid. A lid covering the compost. The compost filling the […]
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Jen and Tonics Day 1
Tue, 10 Sep 2013, 08:55 PM (-06:00)
Ten years ago we ran around the track, we ran up hills, we did sprints, and we ran long runs on the trails and up to Far West before sunrise in the summer. The coach was lousy. The workouts were fine, I suppose, and I trained harder than I ever had before (although as for […]
Spider and Bees
Sun, 8 Sep 2013, 08:26 PM (-06:00)
1. A Spider There was a spider on the leaf. A tiny green one with huge green claw-like front legs. It sat motionless on a leaf as we watched. It sat motionless even as we approached. I pointed at it, but it did not move until I crossed some threshold just millimeters away from that tiny […]
Melons and Peppers and Tomatoes
Sat, 7 Sep 2013, 09:17 PM (-06:00)
So we stood in the backyard again today, watching the weather in the east. We watched the dark clouds part and drift to the north and south of us. We watched blue sky open overhead while thunder rolled somewhere in the west where it was undoubtedly raining hard. In full sun, tantalizing raindrops fell from […]
It Passed Us
Wed, 4 Sep 2013, 08:28 PM (-06:00)
“Come look. You have to see this,” she said. There was a band of green on the map. And then yellow. And then orange. And red. The color splotch marched across her computer screen from east to west. It was coming right at us. “Hey, you took my place,” she later complained when I sat […]
Bad Ass
Sat, 31 Aug 2013, 11:07 AM (-06:00)
“There you are,” she said. I opened my eyes and turned my head. Like a dream, I saw her in the distance, her hair tousled from her eight mile run, her arms swinging confidently by her side as she took long strides toward me. There was a look of exasperation on her face. “For heaven’s […]
Perplexion
Tue, 9 Jul 2013, 07:12 AM (-06:00)
Well that’s a bid Mockingbird, I wondered to myself. I was going to the compost pile with some grapes whose time had passed, and on my way there I spotted the grey pile of feathers under a wire fence that had fallen over. I leaned over and picked up the fence, prepared to move the carcass […]
Long Weekend’s End
Sun, 7 Jul 2013, 08:27 PM (-06:00)
1. Perhaps it wasn’t the best time of day to be digging in the dirt. But there were other things to do earlier in the day, and so I showed up at 2:30 with the 100+ degree sun beating down on the little patch of ground where some digging needed doing. It was indeed a little […]
The Frogs of Onion Creek
Fri, 5 Jul 2013, 08:29 AM (-06:00)
The frogs are croaking along Onion Creek. I know this, because we were there yesterday. We walked through the woods in the shade with the dogs sniffing at the trees and bushes and pokey things along the path. And we came to a trail that we hadn’t taken before that went back and forth and […]