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Archive for November, 2008

Winter berry

winter fruit

Just another pretty picture

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Driftwood

 
Although these lyrics have no particularly special meaning to me right now, they once did have meaning to me as most Moody Blues songs did.  It is ironic that now when I am looking at my past and rediscovering some things important that I have lost that these lyrics come to me. This path I am walking [...]

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I thought it was only me

I watch her as she walks, a subtle glamour on her face.  This is not the glamour of designer clothes nor painted finger nails, this is the glamour of olde faerie ways and forest glades. 
She shivers by a fire that blazes so hot it scorches her skin, but she shivers in the bone deep chill it [...]

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A shed

 
At the old Erie canal era house that I lived in as a child, we had an old shed behind the house.  I sketched many a picture of it.  I forget what we used if for at first but eventually became a wood shed, a place to store wood where it would always be dry.  [...]

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Just breathe.

There is a smell in the woods of vegetation rotting, it is a wholesome smell, not a “dead thing”  smell, a deep earthly odor that I breathe in, taking in the earth in all of her beauty, grace and yes even in her violence.  Her storms, her quakes, her explosions of fury.  In her violence [...]

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my oak tree my baby

I realized this morning that in the last three days most of the leaves have fallen from the trees in the backyard.  The only tree yet to hold onto it’s telltale bronze leaves is the young oak.  On the way to school I pointed out a tree to Morgan, which was also holding onto bronze [...]

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Oh what a beautiful day! On my way home from a doctor’s appointment I had this strong almost overwhelming desire to walk along a water course.  I packed up the dog at the house and headed to Green Lakes State Park.  I don’t think I have actually been there in years, which is a tragedy because [...]

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