February 7, 2016--Years ago I came across this litany, credited to Source Unknown. If you want a thought that's happy Boil it down Make it short and crisp and snappy Boil it down When your brain its coin has minted Down the page your pen has sprinted If you want your effort printed Boil it …
Snow
23 January 2016--If I were a snow goose, I'd be looking for open water beyond my ken. The St. Joe is frozen, covered in a thin layer of snow. It's a beautiful sight, now blanketed in darkness. The news of expected epic snowfalls in the eastern part of the country this weekend brings to mind a stream …
Road Work Ahead
6 November 2015--September and October had us on the road, by car, by train and by foot. MapQuest proved the maxim "Always check and recheck directions." In short, be prepared to be waylaid. On our way to Onekama, Michigan at the end of August, we ended up on a one lane seasonal road that had grass growing …
Onekama, Michigan
1 September 2015--Onekama, Michigan. Little Eden on Portage Lake. Lake Michigan lives over the treed sand hills to the west. Morning sun tackling the dew on the picnic tables. Quiet except for a water spout spouting off in a small pond outside the lodge dining room. Staying in a cabin, Pine Circle. Spending the week …
A flower, a book, a five-year-old cheddar
8-8-2015--It looks like a petunia, but what is it? It's a flower that has grown where only weeds tend to grow. I think of flowers of the field, but here it's flower of the avenue. As I write rain has started to fall; drink up curb-side bloomer. For a few years I've worked off and on …
A Very Good Coffee Day
Saturday 11 July 2015--I usually drink coffee daily. So what's with A Very Good Coffee Day? The headline captures today's very good day, as well as any other good day, and in the long ago past, the good memory of a few days in Paris in 1968. This morning we walked to Coffee on the Piazza …
Fireworks
I Marty (foreground) and I did this walk in April with the Southwest Cornwall Footpath Preservation Society. Location is Prussia Cove on Cornwall's English Channel side. Glorious! Preserve the path! t's July 3, 2015 and some neighbors are having a blast. The city's fireworks takes place at dark, but some folks are in the boom business …
A May Memory
Up-To-Slow-Speed, 30 May 2015--It happened a long time ago. On a May 24 Canadian Victoria Day, Grandfather Solomon loaded some of us on his milk truck and took us fishing in the Nith River; the location might have been at Haysville, Ontario. Other siblings or cousins might be able to pinpoint the location …
It’s a wrap . . . home after Cornwall
Cornwall Cogitation #14, Sunday 10 May 2015--In the UK it's called a takeaway; in the US it's a takeout. Applying the terms to more than food or drink, what do we take away from our three months in Cornwall? Monday, 4 May, we attended May Day events at the Guildhall in St Ives. the noon event included …
On sea, land and soon the sky
Cornwall Cogitation #13 Sunday 3 May 2015--So soon our sojourn in Cornwall ends. But not yet. We have Monday and Tuesday to wrap up locally and then we take the Night Riviera train to London and fly across the pond on Wednesday. We're looking forward to May Day events in St Ives on Monday and …
It's About Now 