As a child I was terrified of snakes. Now I love them. The other side of the same fascination perhaps? We live right beside an old quarry, which garter snakes love. Last weekend though, this lady graced us with her presence.  she may have come to hunt garters, or mice, which we have in abundance. […]

We had a fabulous time, the six of us, last night at the first cello class. How marvelous, to see women who have never played any instrument pick up a cello and make it sing!!

she docked beside our building all winter last year- I shot these then. every time I passed her I sensed immense strength, impossible age, and exhaustion. Turns out the sailors call her the ‘salt-pig’. She’s the oldest ship in the fleet, and she’s being eaten from the inside out by the road salt she’s carried […]

To scoop heavy-large and with force.  To cleave and lever out.  To carry no-spill pile and deposit.  To lift out and back-twist shoulder-throw distribute over longtime partner.  To winter/rain store safe for not-rust.  If not/inevitable, to handle-rot remove and wire-string. To hang on paint-plaster wall, rust-mortared Beauty-Friend.