Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

with little tiny hands, but a great big mouth

around here I think they're called turkey-tail mushrooms - supposedly medicinal. But I only know two wild 'shrooms well enough to put into my mouth, and this isn't one of them.

June has come around again and I'm still here to see it - to behold the astonishing green of bracken glowing in mid-afternoon sun - the haze of midges and gnats swirling above the trail before me - the foamy red waters of Scott Brook falling over themselves on their rocky descent to the Millers Rive...

fleeting moments
pretty girls, sips of wine
poignant sunset

 
spring mornings
how quickly they pass -
soon, autumn

 

A week or so ago the dog & I were just wrapping up a rail-trail walk alongside Scott Brook. Just as we reached the car I noticed a huge stand of sulfur shelf fungus a short way off in the woods. We were barely a mile from home - so I drove there, dropped off the dog, grabbed a storage bag, & returne...

Donald Trump: "If they can do this to me, they can do it to you!"
Jimmy Kimmel: "Yes - that's exactly how it's supposed to work!"

tonight's paper: "NH senate rejects bill to legalize marijuana..." no worries - everyone here lives near a border I'm 20 minutes from two shops in Massachusetts... others can visit Vermont or Maine or Quebec... so dither away, Honorable Gentlemen while I light my pipe and enjoy a walk along Scott Br...

I just finished a journal entry bemoaning my foster companion's tendency to redefine "walk" as "stand in the same spot smelling the same leaf" - only instead of my butt, the roots were growing from the soles of my shoes. Great minds... (My hair had also grown another centimeter, and I'd shed a full ...

dreams always speak the truth

A far cry from your original post, sorry - until after repling, I'd forgotten I'd had a handful of my underwater slides digitized, and hoped that the dog swimming was among them. It wasn't, but I got caught up in the momentum of seeing these again...

well-mannered dog
nose lifted to the breeze
forest secrets

does she feel it beckon?
does the wolf within stir?

OMG
when did I last change
the water filter?

Found a few U/W pix I'd digitized at my daughter's request for a personal portfolio she was putting together. They were done on a very inexpensive scanner and are of low quality, but for now they're all I've got. They show her at age 9 swimming in Laurel Lake. You can just barely see the dog's tail ...

Heidi, Kelly, Molly, Penny - I grew up with all these dogs, but they were family dogs, not mine. My first dog was Brandy - a black lab mix I got custody of after the divorce. We hiked & swam a lot of miles, that old gal and I. I was into scuba at the time, and dabbling in underwater photography, and...