Category Archives: In the neighborhood

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 8 – The Eclipse

the moon’s shadow • in a brief starring role • stole the spotlight Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 4

tree boughs scrape against • the edge of the roof, singing • with low vibrato Continue reading

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Fixing the Mailbox

When I went out with my holiday cards, all zip-sorted and rubberbanded, I noticed that the rivet holding on the mailbox door on one side was gone.
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The Gettysburg Address

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. Continue reading

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Long way ’round back home

…took the long rambling way back home, stopping a few times to take more photos. Got home and did this, which really didn’t look like any of the clouds specifically but the landscape was pretty close, what there was of it. Continue reading

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