I was atop the Appalachian gap today in a storm of elevation, since down on the valley, it was blue skies and dry roads…

Let us now praise famous men…

For months I've been annoyed with my fireplace poker. ..

It's that time of year, when the part of the wood pile that's bone dry takes its special place in the burning regimen…

Most problems are universal…

It was almost Christmas, and I was driving north with “special cargo”, on an urgent mission…

What’s not to like about a plank? …

When the ground thaws, you have to gain the upper hand again, for any jobs requiring a shovel…

When I moved to West Corinth, VT in the 90s, to a barely insulated bungalow, in October, & found the wood stove door missing, with no back up heat, I found a new use for aluminum foil, and for that I was grateful…

Most of the snow was gone when I got up this morning, with temps already climbing towards their peak: 50 degrees by mid-day…

You wouldn't know it based on my dead-end status, but I live closer to a metropolitan area now, than I did…

I don't have all the kinks worked out yet, but I know the dawn when I see it, coming thru a skylight & the magic of getting up early, in the dark…

I've had to self-analyze my penchant for cemetery photos this week…

I saw the fishing access sign a bit late, hit the brakes and made a sharp turn onto the rutted dirt track, bumping over a series of potholes, to a stop…

A scant third of the group went up, to the cliff and the ravens' world of conifers & sky…

It was maybe a month ago, and the town in the valley was filling with cars, bumper to bumper…

To me, this will always be "Wedding Dress Falls", but if any consummation has occurred here, it has been between the invisible…

What's left? What colors, which root systems? …

We can't always be close to the ones we've loved, but sometimes we can walk without them, as if they were there…

It's been a long week, and I'm washing stones…