Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

winter or fall?
ice or mud?
cleats or no?
all of the above...

moss & mushrooms fallen leaves puddles, rivulets... ... memories of long ago & far away... san jose california photonics trade show and the day jim & I played hookie to see the redwoods... midweek... a gray day damp and cool no one about but us and majestic giants to whom we were but small beetles ...

Cold night, bright moon - driveway crisscrossed by tree shadows. Dry powdery snow crunches under my feet. The dog trots off towards the woods where he likes to tend to business, and, unfortunately, begin his unauthorized treks over the wall. I switch on the flashlight to keep him in sight. Suddenly ...

When I was a kid, "Maverick" was the highlight of our Sunday nights - it was the only night the whole family would set up trays and eat supper gathered around the tv. I also liked "Rawhide" and, much later, "Branded" & "The Guns of Will Sonnet". For reading, I was more into juvenile sci-fi. I never ...

Hey ya ol' coot why don't you have a snowblower???? If I lived in New Hampshire I'd have a snowblower and jam my ass off with it every snowstorm ! You fire that thing up dress in your Carhartt's fire up the machine and go blow the driveway and the mailbox while singing verses from Quinn the Eskimo ...

5:56 am - Standing at the foot of the bed and barking out the window, dog pulls me out of the half-sleep I've been drifting in. Outside, a rumbling and flashing yellow light tell me Dave has returned to finish the job he started yesterday. But he seems to finish a lot sooner than I would have expect...

7:52 am - You'd never know that I shoveled 6" of snow off the front steps last night just before bed. It all grew back overnight. Dave came sometime during the wee hours - I didn't wake up when he did, nor, apparently, did the dog. Or else I slept through his barking, too. The dog's, not Dave's. Dav...

Holy crap, Doreen, I'm so sorry to hear that! I've always admired your devotion to physical activity & fitness, you're the last person I'd've expected to experience a cardiac episode. (Don't you just love the euphemisms?) My brother-in-law had a massive coronary a year (or was it two?) ago - and has...

Synchronicity! Both of these came up in conversation at lunch today. War hasn't really gotten less brutal, only more efficient.

so softly
does this cold rain
kiss the leaves
 

.....these are the real gems in life, and perhaps they were aimed for us to discover, if we are willing and able.....when I was doing carpentry, particularly rehabbing, i began to find things, and messages inside walls.......so in that tradition i began to do the same....I also left dates and the n...

be safe, judih

  I've been back to the Preserve on several occasions - here's an Easter egg on one of the later hunts. Click on the images to enlarge. . 010.jpg . 015.jpg       This is the 1st one I found, next to a balancing boulder . 020.jpg       I like the austerity of this one... . 030.jpg       This one need...

"grateful for your contribution"..... cold.... A writer & translator of poetry (Russian in particular) lives a few miles from me, much closer if you bushwhack through the woods. There's a little side trail off the RR grade I take the dog most afternoons, which I explored solo one bitterly cold winte...

maybe there really was a time when patriotic duty was about god & country about democracy freedom justice maybe or maybe it's always been about spending consuming working hard to earn money just to give it back to the corporate uberlords maybe all that talk about ideals was the real opiate of the ma...