Greenway journal: Circle of broken segments, the bowed skeins of the spider’s web ten feet over my head, under a limb that shoots out over the trail; its maker, a wolf spider, nowhere to be seen, maybe tucked in the curl of a cool damp leaf. Some of the more usual Hallmark card beauty is […]
Archive | 2013
Sleep, moonlight, and a few other words
August and a few leaves out on the greenway spotting and starting to turn. Yesterday morning I was out there again for the first time in a while, panting and sweating in the name of good health and happiness, early enough before the heat really came on strong. A good day yesterday; pecked at a […]
Coyote you might look fierce
but you’re not moving so fast. (This critter was watching me eat my dinner, north of Monroe several days ago.) I’m back from Louisiana, now with three weeks off the road ahead. Will I lose what’s left of my mind? It’s possible. Where’s that dirty windshield I usually see through? Didn’t I have a bottle […]
Up in Arkansas, down in Louisiana
Back home and gone again–or so I think . . . van still in the shop; mechanic is trying to coax it through the annual emissions test so I can get new tags and hopefully NOT get pulled over again like we did almost immediately upon entering Shelby County, TN on the way home […]