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Going to Church on Sunday
Sunday morning and the dog and I are up and out the door. We are heading to church but unlike my fellow townsfolk my church is the forest. I am, however, a devoted parishioner as I worship several times a week if I am able. My hymns are the croak
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Pine Street Woods Saturday Morning
Mollie and I started the morning a little late. We wanted to visit the chimes again, or at least I did. Mollie is happy anywhere there are woods and fresh snow. We came up a different route this morning from the highway, up a steep climb; one set of tracks
Writing
The Whales of Pend d'Oreille
A Story of Origins
Photography
Making a Photo Story Book
Blog repost from - July 27, 2019
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Pileated Woodpecker
Mollie is squirrel crazy and their size and motions, clinging to the side of a tree, attracts her attention so she often helps me find them. The pileated is a large woodpecker which the cartoon Woody Woodpecker was roughly modeled after. Like all woodpeckers and the smaller sapsucker they can
Writing
The Stories Trees Tell
Recorded in their wood are stories we can sometimes read. Flattening a piece of wood. I plane off smooth thin curls of wood. I check the flatness, then plane more, then check, then plane, then check. It won’t flatten. The tree tells me of the hill it grew on
Photography
Small Print Album Project
I have always loved printing my photographs. It is an oft-repeated truth that holding a photograph is special in a way that a screen cannot compete with. I have spent years in the darkroom crafting black and white prints, I have sent my color prints out for professional printing and
creativity
Right Brain Work
One path on a creative journey.
Writing
Young and Drunk
I had this startling memory bubble up for some reason in the middle of the night. When I turned sixteen and could drive I could find alcohol and I got drunk one day. I thought it would be good in this exhilarated state to go running through deep snow in
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Pine Street Woods Feb 6 2025
Apologies in advance for my recent enthusiasm for the regular small accumulations of dry light snow. It has been a thin winter. I have had the pleasure the last few days of taking care of my neighbor’s dog Boba. He is a goofy, friendly, and lovable border collie. He
Photography
A Small Printer
The very small cadre of followers may know that I like to take my photographs out into the real world on occasion. I have a darkroom where I make black and white prints from my film negatives. I get some of my digital images made into film negatives and then