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The White

It's called "The White" but I'm not sure why…

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Goldenrod Days

When I open my eyes, the slant of light tells me it's not yet 6…

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Walking with Odi

She sang about the dragon mother, launched onto Cameron's path, in the filtered sunlight of summer…

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Pizza Night

My keys were missing the next morning, after pizza night…

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Wetting Bush

I remember pacing the 20 feet, thinking about a small building, a warming shed for XC-skiers, while winter raged outside…

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Rock Pile

It all goes by so fast. Even "the before it blooms" stage is like a blink, and then the blossom is gone…

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What You Don’t Know

The road to Hanksville is closed, on the Appalachian Gap side, for bridge repair…

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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…

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Torrential

When the cat threw up on my pedal board case, I thought: I'm done with this…

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The Sign

I don't suppose it's revealing too much to say that when I got home, I found that someone had made this sign for me and stuck it prominently into the muddy lawn…

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Car Parts

Why is it that most of the affordable used sinks are laying behind outbuildings, up towards St. Albans?

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Lalita

Without knowing, I passed the house, drove uphill on wicked washboard-corrugated dirt, wishing I'd switched to 4WD earlier…

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Outhouse

We stare at the high rise outhouse, rain dripping off its metal roofing, standing in a quiet forest glade connected by fairy paths…

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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…

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Untainted

I knocked on the first camper, unsure of myself and waited, looking at my boots…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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