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Happy Halloween!

Posted in life on October 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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A long winter’s nap

Posted in life on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We had the first hard freeze of the season last night, so gardening is all over and it is time to squirrel away provisions in the face of the long, cold winter ahead.

Time to dry pears and apples from the trees

Time to pickle the green tomatoes that will never ripen

Time to start crocheting an afghan–this [...]

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Sugar cookies, just because

Posted in life on October 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Sitting at a desk all day and working at a computer, as I do, can easily lead to a helpless feeling of sensory deprivation. You can pause to look at pretty pictures on flickr, and you can listen to music, but the senses of taste and touch and scent are, alas, woefully neglected during the [...]

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Fall has flung?

Posted in life on October 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »

If “Spring has sprung”, then has Fall flung? It seems right, somehow. Spring flowers spring up out of the ground, while Fall leaves are flung everywhere–off of their trees, onto the lawn, into piles, down the street.

Vines are changing color. This picture reminds me so much of Jill Barklem’s illustrations for Brambly Hedge’s “Autumn Story”, [...]

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Going up the country, got to get away

Posted in life on October 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

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Tropical Storm Omar

Posted in life on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

At least once a month, something makes me think to myself, “you can’t make this stuff up”.
Tropical storm Omar, which has since matured into Hurricane Omar, has hit Bonaire. It arrived about a week after we left. A week after our solid eight days of still, hot sunshine. The storm was very bad for the [...]

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New & Shiny

Posted in life on October 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I have been playing around with New & Shiny, and the recent influx of Fall produce makes especially nice subject matter.

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Changing of the Guard

Posted in life on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is Old Faithful, who until now has taken the pictures used on this blog:

Old Faithful’s battery pack started going on the fritz right before I left for Bonaire. When I found out that a new battery pack cost not considerably less than a new camera, and thought about how many years I’ve had Old [...]

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In Country Sleep, 2008

Posted in life on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Never and never my girl riding far and near
In the land of hearthstone tales and spelled asleep
Fear or believe that the wolf in a sheepwhite hood
Loping and bleating roughly and blithely will leap, my dear my dear
Out of a flocked lair in the dew-dipped year
To eat your heart in the house in the rosy wood.
–Dylan [...]

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Bonaire: Underwater

Posted in life on October 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »

(all pictures in this post courtesy of Tasha and her amazing submersible camera housing–thanks Tash!)
While the island of Bonaire is an interesting and beautiful place, the reason most tourists come to it is to dive on the gorgeous, healthy coral reefs that surround it. One can see hard and soft corals as shallow as 15 [...]

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Bonaire

Posted in life on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Sigh. I had a hard time finding the energy to blog after going to Key West last March, and now I’m having a hard time finding the energy to blog after spending a week in Bonaire, possibly the most obscure of the Netherlands Antilles and a SCUBA diver’s paradise.

I was not the person on this [...]

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