Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

,,,that moment on Friday when the entire work week is behind you and the entire weekend is ahead of you....

what better place to train
for forest tramps
than the forest itself?
easy does it -
a mile here
a mile there
and don't forget
that when you turn around
you're only halfway there...

and beware trail seduction -
the harlot we elderly hikers
so often succumb to:
"maybe just a little further -
...then ...

big strong beautiful walls
can keep out the smoke
not many people know that

behind he wheel
no magic about it
until you can't

and from what you've shown & written about the Gunpowder, I'd guess our spiritual connections to them are pretty similar too

Day Lily

Birch Hill WMA, Winchendon MA - Wetmore Rd trailhead. The unopened buds are edible, often with a sharp, peppery essence - but these were bland & insipid. I munched on a few, but they'd either gone by or were just an inferior variety. The wild blueberries & raspberries I found later ...

all this smoke
damned canadians
annex them

Mark, Steve - thanks for taking note. It was just one of those moments I hadn't expected. My intent had been to sniff the air for smoke and determine if I needed to dress warmly or not. Those who carefully tend their flower beds get to see hummingbirds on a regular basis, not so much old bachelors ...

hazy morning
I open the front door to assess the day
and instead come face to face
with a hummingbird

he hovers before me
regarding my unwashed face
then flits to the hostas
finds one in bloom
and takes a sip
returns to my face
hovers
then disappears into the trees

"Good Morning", I call
he does ...

 
it's ironic, is it not,
that those we most need protection from
are so often the very ones tasked
to do just that

(you could be describing my journals)

the occasional gold flake
lost in that mountain of gravel

not quite a man
but no longer a boy...
so who am I?

 
old diaries -
so young, so callow
not yet me
 

hot-air balloons float away...
when will he?

I remember my first
maybe in fourth grade
classmate drowned in kennedy pond
trying to swim under the raft
how I cried when I heard
and I didn't even like him
must have been shock
death was for old people
not 9-year olds
must have been fear
that no one was safe
must have been confusion
how can this ...