Category: Houselust to Wonderlust
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Essex Regatta 1960
An archival flashback to the 11th Essex Regatta (and 34th Westport Regatta) as featured in August and September 1960 Valley News articles. Ready for summer?!
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Green Burgundy Stink Bug
Up close and personal with a green burgundy stink bug (Banasa dimidiata) to observe and celebrate a singularly stunning coloration.
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Luna Moth
A meditation — visual and poetic — on the moon moth, an infrequent but celebrated visitor.
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Sometimes Sailing
Sometimes sailing? Yes, back to my home/sailboat pairing. Home as sailboat. Homing as sailing. A recurring exploration. Inspired by recent adventures with my extraordinary wife, best friend, and co-adventurer. Sometimes SailingSpringtime and autumnsunrise and sunsethoming and dwelling(and sometimes sailing)pair impossiblewith the possiblesurging, subsidingbeginning, endingcoming, departing healing, harboringand adventuring. Sailing home, coursing forward. And away. At…
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Pear Blossoms
Pear blossoms are poems in which poire rhymes with pure and love floats into longevity like the fragrance of springtime mixed with the sweet dessert of late summer. So surely flirtatious is seasonality’s flowering as we wander the orchard honoring varieties and contemplating menus. [Another] blissful burst from Rosslyn’s orchard abuzz with honeybees and hummingbirds……
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Imperfection
Today I offer you a scrapbook meditation on imperfection not only as inevitable but also as appealing and valuable. And for habitués, you won’t be surprised by my mind meandering into the humbling wonders of wabi-sabi. The imperfect moments shape us as much as the sunny ones. (Source: Frosty Ferrying into Rosslyn) With May showers flirting,…
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Apple Blossoms
A prose poem for the optimism of apple blossoms (and the pollinators who ensure that this beauty will bear fruit!)
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Downriver Drifting
Sunday stream of consciousness riffling from birdsong to riverine rambling (and deftly sidestepping the complex concerns of Sarah McCartt-Jackson’s poem, “Borrow”.)
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Trillium Time
Are you familiar with one of our more exotic wild flora that dazzles Adirondack Coast woodlands this time of year?
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Wild and Free
Sometimes life rhymes. And sometimes were fortunate to hear the “singing underneath“. Whence this siren song to live wild and free?
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Wild Turkey Nesting
This time of year Rosslyn’s wildlife cameras document a noticeable uptick in activity amongst our natural neighbors. Springtime spurs mating rituals of all flavors, but reviewing recent images (including the wild turkey below, one of *many* wild turkey photos lately) my mind turns to wild turkey nesting. Perhaps you recollect my June 27, 2013 update,…