I didn't get close: I used the zoom on my camera to take the pictures and then went back upstream.
7/31: not freaking out
...when I saw two snakes sunning on rocks as I was wading in the creek this afternoon.
I didn't get close: I used the zoom on my camera to take the pictures and then went back upstream.
I didn't get close: I used the zoom on my camera to take the pictures and then went back upstream.
7/30: found
When I was in Loretto recently my mother and I both fondly remembered a short essay written by one of the English professors at the university back in the 80s. She couldn't find her copy of it at her house. I said I thought we might have a reprint of it that my father sent to me decades ago; I looked through a folder where I keep miscellaneous dear things and it wasn't there, but today Chris found it in his file cabinet.
7/29: pupusas
...at a new-to-us place in Russellville. With thanks to Chris for remembering we had heard about it months ago so that as we were passing through today we could check it out.
7/27: condo
As a lark I rented a 2-bedroom 2-bath condo for my brother, Chris, and myself and our little holiday in northwest Arkansas. It turns out that it was so much better than getting 2 separate hotel rooms--a great setting to celebrate my brother's birthday a little early. And then I realized that it was just the sort of thing that Chris' mother would have done, and I was glad to have followed in her footsteps.
7/26: elderflower pressé
I found the same brand in a store here that I've bought and enjoyed in summers past at the British Museum.
7/25: word list
Today I went through the poems that will make up the fourth printed volume of Heron Tree and picked out one noun from each for the book's cover.
Here's the list: attic, beads, bowl, clouds, color, cord, darkness, daughter, earth, edge, eggs, fence, fragment, furniture, glow, harvesters, horse, house, ice, light, lip, morning, moths, neck, night, orchid, path, photograph, porthole, quilt, rain, reflection, sleep, slope, soil, stitch, twigs, vines, visitors, updraft, water, years.
Here's the list: attic, beads, bowl, clouds, color, cord, darkness, daughter, earth, edge, eggs, fence, fragment, furniture, glow, harvesters, horse, house, ice, light, lip, morning, moths, neck, night, orchid, path, photograph, porthole, quilt, rain, reflection, sleep, slope, soil, stitch, twigs, vines, visitors, updraft, water, years.
7/24: one more spin
I needed to leave for the airport at 8 a.m. this morning, but my mother and I squeezed in a quick walk around the Schwab estate before that.
Standing under the weeping elm:
Standing under the weeping elm:
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