Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Last time I felt that kind of residual energy in a place was at the grave of HP Lovecraft. I'd unsuccessfully hunted for it once before, and was on the verge of giving up this time when I practically stumbled over it. It was an unexpectedly powerful moment - I actually burst into tears. I have no il...

    Downtown, Fitzwilliam NH . 01_IMG_20250928_26384.jpg . . Canis Albus (" white dog "), aka Kane - RIP, old buddy.. . 02_IMG_20160703_19570.jpg . . A local Ent . 03_IMG_20151007_18827.jpg . . Black-capped chickadee . 04_IMG_20150611_18220.jpg . . It ain't easy bein' green . 05_IMG_20120610_12951.j...

Years ago, Luther Johnson bought a crummy little restaurant around here & turned into a jazz/blues club. He was known to show up on rare occasions & sit in with local talent. My brother's band played there fairly often, but were never so graced...

lilies of the field come in all shapes & sizes......

Thanks for that, Steve - I appreciate it. I really do. What's happening all around us makes me angry, but so does the discourse surrounding it - as designed. Little of it is constructive - it's mostly there for the views & likes, and if it inspires others to take action (not them, of course) , well,...

  Enough. ICE agents assaulting anyone suspected of being black - the President of the United States explaining how to use the F-word - his henchmen intoning on Fox about bake sales in Portland... Enough. Shut it off. Lace the boots grab the camera light one up out the door into the woods where the ...

we spent a night in Key West back in my scuba days - the open-air bars along the main drag - street food and whiskey well into the night - one big street party - music & laughter everywhere - and one old crazy accosting everyone he met on the sidewalk, reason enough for us to cross the street.... Th...

something similar happened to me! I'd forgotten about it til now. The "sole" unpleasant encounter I alluded to was actually a different one. Okay, I've had TWO unpleasant encounters in the last 40 years of hiking.....

I've only had one unpleasant trailside encounter, & it was more unnerving than openly hostile. Most have been friendly, but none have touched me quite as deeply as this one did. I've got an unfinished journal entry about an afternoon on this same trail. It was at the height of blueberry season, and ...

is that Santana setting up on that little knoll off to the left?

A Girl Named Jasmine I don't remember just when I met her - only that it was at the end of a power hike up Gap Mountain, a modest little peak among the foothills of Mount Monadnock in southwestern New Hampshire. Monadnock isn't an especially difficult hike, but best regarded as an all-day outing. G...

glad I could stir you - seems to be happening a lot to me too - when you climb a hilltop, it doesn't seem unnatural to look back at the trail you've come from. We're a week away from the 10th anniversary of Her passing... curiously, on the birthday of yet ANOTHER lady I was involved with....

a spelling bee perhaps?

ghosties & ghoulies & 4-legged beasties!

  From 1940-42, the Birch Hill dam across the Millers RIver in South Royalston MA was built by the Army Corp of Engineers in response to the catastrophic flooding of 1936 and 1938. (Part of nearby Winchendon is still known as Waterville.) A rail line and a state highway were moved to accommodate it,...