Last night around ten the wind started howling, something wet started hitting the windows and before you knew it, snow! Well, the weather guys had been salivating over this nor’easter so it wasn’t too big a surprise but still. My … Continue reading →
Today was warm, sort of. The morning was a write off. I drove over to New Lebanon and stopped at Hand Hollow. Things looked brown and green seemed far off even thouogh it’s *right there* – so close. Not yet. … Continue reading →
I am calling it a rest day, since I was out and around and ate way too much for dinner tonight. Here are the haiku that I mushed together with minor massaging into yesterday’s sonnet: april seventeen easter, pesach, ramadan … Continue reading →
The NaPoWriMo prompt suggested we “write a curtal sonnet. This is a variation on the classic 14-line sonnet. The curtal sonnet form was developed by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and he used it for what is probably his most famous poem, … Continue reading →
Gee I almost forgot to post these. Mom and I took a trip to our favorite nursery and we both came home with some plants. I did bring home some creeping thyme. There are several places around where it seems … Continue reading →
Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac. It’s great for the first two weeks.
