TRIPPING on shadows
After another long day at school, I began to trip on the shadows on my walk back to the scooter. Shadows will never be the same again.
10/15/14
10/14/14
Good Morning
FROM October in A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold:
"It would seem as if the sun were responsible for the daily retreat of reticence from the world. At any rate, by the time the mists are white over the lowlands, every rooster is bragging ad lib, and every corn shock is pretending to be twice as tall as any corn that ever grew. By sun-up every squirrel is exaggerating some fancied indignity to his person, and every jaw proclaiming with false emotion about suppositious dangers to society, at this very moment discovered by him. Distant crows are berating a hypothetical owl, just to tell the world how vigilant crows are, and a pheasant cock, musing perhaps on his philandering of bygone days, beats the air with his wings and tell the world in raucous warning that he owns this marsh and all the hens in it.
...and finally, at evening, the drone of an untended radio. Then everybody goes to bed to relearn the lessons of the night."
"It would seem as if the sun were responsible for the daily retreat of reticence from the world. At any rate, by the time the mists are white over the lowlands, every rooster is bragging ad lib, and every corn shock is pretending to be twice as tall as any corn that ever grew. By sun-up every squirrel is exaggerating some fancied indignity to his person, and every jaw proclaiming with false emotion about suppositious dangers to society, at this very moment discovered by him. Distant crows are berating a hypothetical owl, just to tell the world how vigilant crows are, and a pheasant cock, musing perhaps on his philandering of bygone days, beats the air with his wings and tell the world in raucous warning that he owns this marsh and all the hens in it.
...and finally, at evening, the drone of an untended radio. Then everybody goes to bed to relearn the lessons of the night."
10/13/14
9/28/14
Land Management
AERIAL PHOTOS Petaluma River: adjacent conservation easements
Land management, brush strokes
9/18/14
Survivor
CHICKEN Survivor of dog attacks and paranoia
This Bantam chicken has survived a number of potential ends. She used to have a paranoid twin and other wonderful friends who are now buried next to fruit trees in the park. I admire her will to survive and ability to hold on to her sanity.
9/11/14
stolen cows were spirited away some distance
DEFINITION Spirit
language is the spirit of the voice, in pencil marks, rhythm of line
the senses come together at this point in time to tell you a secret story
stolen cows sing to you now, sweet illogical harmonies
you, the cows are dancing now, a faint glimmer and into the distance
language is the spirit of the voice, in pencil marks, rhythm of line
the senses come together at this point in time to tell you a secret story
stolen cows sing to you now, sweet illogical harmonies
you, the cows are dancing now, a faint glimmer and into the distance
9/9/14
song and place
CLASS Song and Place w/Tony Dubovsky
I'm taking a class where I get to sing, observe, listen, and draw connections between song and place. Beginning with American roots, our first song is called, Down in the Valley. The song took me back to the Carrizo Plain where I spent time this past summer watching the sky and thinking about catching rain.
I'm taking a class where I get to sing, observe, listen, and draw connections between song and place. Beginning with American roots, our first song is called, Down in the Valley. The song took me back to the Carrizo Plain where I spent time this past summer watching the sky and thinking about catching rain.
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