Monthly Archives: July 2011

In the Mountains on a Summer Day

In the Mountains on a Summer Day Gently I stir a white feather fan, With open shirt sitting in a green wood. I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone; A wind from the pine-trees trickles … Continue reading

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Big Reads

So what big reads do you read? What brings you back? Do you long for more info about what went on with the writer? (I’ll confess to similar questions about the writing of Kristin Lavransdatter) although the story line there is much simpler. I remember taking notes about characters in War and Peace LOL. Continue reading

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that fleeting thought

You know that old thing about having a notepad by your bedside so you can write down that idea that comes to you, unbidden, in the middle of the night? Well, I wasn’t awakened by a thought in the night but I was sure I had lost an idea from lack of writing it down. Continue reading

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Outside and inside

Pattern and repetition

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Talking about book shelves

I thought I had posted these – part of an all too brief whirl with cleaning out stuff in June. But since I hadn’t – meet my newly organized cookbooks and quilt/art/other books: There were more books put into the … Continue reading

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