Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

house needs a coat of stain just like it did last year and the year before... sheetrock in the back room still riddled with bullet-holes fired by squirrels... bathroom needs an upgrade as does the kitchen... been too wet to hike... I've been down with the writing bug mortality calls if these stories...

A Dream Come True... I've long been fascinated by dreams & dreaming, and even journaled my own for a while. Two in particular, though, stand out - not so much for their content as their prescience. One of them occurred in the late 1970s, during my stint at an insurance company as a mainframe comput...

thanks, Doreen. I was searching my haiku yesterday (unsuccessfully) for something to submit for local publication, and ran into her avatar everywhere. Sad end to her story - but at least it's an end.

quiet mentor
kindness personified
and that sly wit....

approaching storm -
see the leaves show the wind
their bellies

I'm glad you did, because I missed it the 1st time around. I got a little teary at my "little one's" HS graduation, indulged in revenge fantasies when she got hit by a drunk driver, & have told countless stories about the way she was & the things she did when she was a child. And now all those momen...

cataract
all thought drowned out
by its roar

I've got a phoebe nesting in the rafters of my back porch; and I've induced chickadees to take food from my hand, though it takes a frigid day & blocked access to a feeder. In the spring, they've dive-bombed me - males possibly, defending territory? Many yrs ago when my daughter was scouting out col...

really like that one of the bird among the rushes. I'm usually bedeviled by my Third Law of Photography: By the time it's framed, composed, & in focus, it either picks its nose, scratches its balls, or flies away.

Love the river view! We need these places to escape into. Birch Hill is just 10-15 min down the road from me, Pearly Lake (where I got lost recently) 10-15 min in the opposite direction. Pisgah State Park is maybe a half hour to my west, Mt Monadnock same distance to my NE. An embarrassment of riches!

Birch Hill WMA, Winchendon MA - New Boston Rd . 01_20250517_25794.jpg . . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- gravel pit, Fitzwilliam NH . 02_20090405_03146.jpg . . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ware River Rai...

rest assured we've ALL done stupid shit... 1968-69 sometime during my freshman year me'n Bruce Buck tossing back a few (only a few - but enough) wandering the campus late at night railroad tracks wonder where they go? let's find out (ever notice how railroad ties are too close together to step comfo...

1969 end of my 1st year at UNH block party Stoke Hall, 6th floor someone knew someone who had a friend whose older brother could buy for us the night wore on - cheap beer, cigarette smoke, and tunes - Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel - Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet ride - Cream's White Room my first drunk pa...

I suspect
you'd catch it
before you gave it

stillness... then -
a frog... moments later-
another