It was a lovely,Almost a perfectApple tree. For fifty yearsOr maybe a hundredIt stood. From grace of slender youthBright-with-blossomGreen wood Pruned by hand of manTo shapely vigorReceiving the sun. Fifty or a hundred springtimesKissed by virgin beesTo fructify: In sweet-smelling scarlet curtainsRedolent of every treein Eden; In golden ooze from the combIts sweetness bringing to… Continue reading The Apple Tree
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Available Now: Dad Poems
Despite some setbacks... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK2LYN3L After about 4 years of work, it is now available on Amazon (because I don't have the financial means to print it myself, or the temporal means to find someone to publish it for me).
What have we been up to?
10 days without an update? Say it ain't so! It is so! So busy.
Coming Soo…meday.
Almost finished! Digital mockup of the front and back cover, framing is not quite right, but close. Then I came home from work and found this. Oh no he didnt! Oh yes, he did! I was pretty hot about that and had to step out for some quite time for an hour or so. Then… Continue reading Coming Soo…meday.
Someday the bells will be real
And the voices will be those of real monks and nuns, floating out across the land. https://youtube.com/shorts/RByGazuauRE?feature=share
Crazy calf
Easter morning: somewhere in Washington state… https://youtube.com/shorts/XsiiAQN_NqI?
Iris and Darla enjoying some green grass
Iris Watch
Still waiting.
Sunrise
Frosty morning yesterday.
Cutting back the blackberries by the shop
The small man is ready for anything. He has brand new red clippers. The snowball bushes between the shop and the carport have grown a bit out of control in the last two years. More to the point, they are overgrown (and undergrown, and through grown) with Himalayan blackberry. Earlier, the kids cut a tunnel… Continue reading Cutting back the blackberries by the shop
