Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

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...

ahh, snakes...


milk snake
variegated bracelet
around my wrist

hog-nosed snake:
all bluster, no bite
falstaff squamata

ribbon snake
my daughter's playmate -
if I catch it

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old New England
pockets of wilderness
between the settlements -
fragments of primeval wood
shattered by civilization
dumbed-down remnants
of what was

love the image - evocative