Category Archives: Images

Spring color

——=0=——     The tiny harbinger flowers, so delicate – but surprisingly decorated.  Snowdrops are like this too, but white with a delicate stroke of green.  They’d be gaudy if they were any larger, eh?  Years ago – no.  Decades ago, … Continue reading

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Scenes from the hood –

This is a thank you note: I can’t decide which of these I like better. There is nothing like the deep green of May.

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Three gray old men walking

Truth told, I never did pay much attention to Ludwig Wittkenstein, even after I’d seen Max Dugan Returns for the tenth time.  Until Sunday.  When he (not Dugan) showed up in Red and Rover and charmed my go-to-meetin’ socks off. … Continue reading

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Saturday

HUZZAH for the husband who’ll come out in the drizzle and fire up the hobby tractor (with the reluctant battery) and muscle a 5000 pound roll of no-climb horse fence and a fence stretcher and still be patient with me … Continue reading

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Rachel, Sophie and the Blustery Day

If I ever decide to go riding on a windy day again, remind me: this never turns out well. It was on a blustery day that I fell off my horse (for the first and only time in the real … Continue reading

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Oh, what a diff a day can make –

First: here’s what the Rachel bunny brought us for Easter –   Yesterday: TODAY: Something about April being the cruelest month?

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Luba

I found Peter Hagerty when I was cruising the web, looking for instructions as to how to make a simple felted wool ball. Don’t ask me why I wanted to do this; there are just so many fascinating materials to … Continue reading

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When we were small

Yeah.  A long time ago now.  And all these kids gots kids.  Lots of ’em.

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Whoop-de-do!

Rachel came over today to hash over an idiotic book that had driven her nuts (which was fun – and she came on her pink bike.  Wait.  Red?). Before too long, we had stumbled into an entirely accidental idyll of … Continue reading

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All tractor, all the time—

John Deere and my GM (good man, not general motor).  Finessing the box scraper.  Kind of like trying to fix a watch with a hammer. Jetta.  Impressed. GM doing other manly things with the tractor.  Did I tell you we … Continue reading

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