Continue Reading Wasp Love Wasp When the honey, fruit and flowery tablecloth were whisked from the table in one sweep, it flew off with a start. Entangled…
Continue Reading Unbidden Memories. It’s funny how memory works. Even those of us who have studied and researched the mechanisms of remembering for decades, can be…
Continue Reading Leaving a Mark. Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America—Southern Pines, NC Tell me what it’s…
Continue Reading Particulate Matter Giuseppe Arcimboldo Fire (1566) The allegory of Fire combines objects that are related to fire. The cheek is formed by a large firestone,…
Continue Reading Summer Joy. Are the Mardi Gras Indians best defined as a community, a tradition, a brotherhood and sisterhood, or an example of living history?…
Continue Reading Mermaids, anyone? Still on vacation. Just popping my head up for five minutes to bring you some cheer amidst all the frightening news flooding…
Continue Reading The otherworldliness of dragonflies. My break is not quite over, but I wanted to share a few thoughts and images, before I hibernate again. I have been…
Continue Reading Time for a Break. I am taking a bit of time off. See you all next week, or so. Photo Credit: My three-year-old grandchild.
Continue Reading Before the Fourth of July. Last Sunday I visited an annual event that has been a Portland tradition since the mid 1960s. The Milk Carton Boat Races…
Continue Reading Beach Combing The Hope I Knowdoesn’t come with feathers.It lives in flip-flops and, in cold weather,a hooded sweatshirt, like a heavyweightin training, or a…
