Author: Geo Davis
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Sunrise Today (Minus Ten Years)
What a difference one decade makes! This photo of sunrise over Lake Champlain at 5:55 AM on February 24, 2014 captures a typical midwinter perspective from Rosslyn once upon a time. Snow. Ice. I think the last time that the broad lake froze was 2019. And at this advanced date, it looks increasingly unlikely that…
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Hand-me-down Haiku
As the oldest of three children, I recognize that my association with hand-me-downs is far from universal. Perhaps my brother and sister would offer a different perspective, recollecting with less enthusiasm having been the beneficiaries of my outgrown clothing and playthings during the 1970s and 1980s. And yet I remember my excitement when a box…
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Daddy’s Girl
One of the very best ways to begin and end the day is a Carley cuddle. Our unabashed daddy’s girl is always up for a snuggle, a massage, spooning, hammocking,… As an early bird — I’m usually up by 5 or 6 o’clock in the morning — breakfast duty falls to me. Since the outset…
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Rosslyn Came to Me
Last night Susan recommended that we watch “She Came to Me,” an indie film with an all star cast including Marisa Tomei, Peter Dinklage, and Anne Hathaway. With no familiarity or expectations, we were pleasantly surprised by the quirky film, a sort of movified comic opera. Despite abundant critical piling on, I found much to…
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Midwinter Champlaining
As I see it, we’re about 2/3 of the way through winter with one month to go until we round the corner into springtime. Despite the fact that today didn’t exactly offer perfect conditions to launch the dory for a frosty February row, I do have a bit of good news. Atypically high water levels…
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Joyful Joinery
Revisiting a reflection on “Durable Joinery” from one year ago because… circularity. A regathering of ideas once again — and probably forever — relevant. Recollecting. Relearning. Mission Intermission Joints. Joinery.Durable joinery.Rejoinery.Durable. Dynamic.Durable dynamics.Team dynamics…interrupted.Progress interrupted. Again.Stutter steps.Impromptu regrouping.Remapping. Rebooting.”There are timeswhen the border —between brokenand unbroken —blursand faultines become fractures.”Would woodworkingsuccor?Would wood joineryreconjoin?Might metaphormend?Joining, conjoining,…
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Stump-to-Table: Ron’s Bistro Table
At long last — albeit ten months to the day after it was completed and delivered — I share with you the looong promised “concept-through-construction of a mixed species (ash and elm) ‘bistro table’ built by Ron Bauer…” mentioned in “Tung Oiling Ash & Elm Table” and elsewhere. I started to compose this reflection on…
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Planks to Pickets
Plenty of “ciphering” on the details of the privacy enclosure recently. True, the team has been juggling multiple concurrent projects, but designing an executable construction plan for the screening fence behind the carriage barn combines several distinct challenges from steel structural skeleton to stump-to-lumber (aka tree-to-timber) pickets. I’ll save the specifics of the steel skeleton…
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Library Brook Bobcat
Let’s turn back the clock exactly 2 years to February 16, 2022. Why? To honor this beautiful cat! Let’s call her/him the Library Brook Bobcat since that’s where these remarkable photographs were taken. As I mentioned when I shared these images on Instagram two years ago, the originals were a little dark, so I zoomed…
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Lakeside Staircase: Demo
With a grateful nod to the weather gods and resounding applause for Glen’s and Tony’s concerted effort, I offer you another progress report on repairs to Rosslyn’s lakeside staircase. Several years into this slooow rolling maintenance project, we’ve successfully implemented the second phase: demo and cleanup. Here’s where I left off a little less than…
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My Funny Valentine
Today my beautiful bride and I celebrate twenty two Valentine’s Days together. That’s a whole lot of love! As I proposed last year, I think we should make EVERY day Valentine’s Day. Let’s celebrate love. And what better way to say I love you than a poem, a sun-soaked ski, and a romantic dinner? My…
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A Lure Allure
Found artifacts. Found art. Found stories. Found poetry… Art from artifacts, I pledge again and again. Glen sent me this photo earlier today. He came across it snagged on the dock, revealed by the ever so slowly receding water, still about 2 feet higher than historic mean. I immediately abandoned the blog post I was…