Walking with Odi
She sang about the dragon mother, launched onto Cameron's path, in the filtered sunlight of summer…
Wetting Bush
I remember pacing the 20 feet, thinking about a small building, a warming shed for XC-skiers, while winter raged outside…
What You Don’t Know
The road to Hanksville is closed, on the Appalachian Gap side, for bridge repair…
Fairy Paths
I don't know what's wrong with the Kubota's 4WD but it couldn't get me to the upper garden, so I switched back to 2WD…
A Tale of Two Slurries
For those who’ve witnessed concrete being mixed and sent down the chute of a concrete truck, you’ll know the satisfaction of seeing it hit its mark, oozing over a grid of rebar as it fills the form…
The Explosion
The mountain watches over me hidden by clouds, or in cahoots with a sunset, reminding my downward dog to look up, not so many months before snow…
Heavy Lifting
Using rocks, because soil collapses in on itself when it's this wet, they're building a foundation that won't slide down the hillside…
Led By The Nose
Deep in dark water, the fish replenish what's cold, touching with whiskered snouts & gills of silk, the bottom of the spring-fed pond…
His Lumber
It's pretty typical for me to say that I can do something in an afternoon, that ends up taking ... an extremely compressed afternoon…