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Monthly Archives: June 2012

Aleatory Album Number One:1132

June 20, 2012by tompostpile Leave a comment

As stated in the previous post: I’ve always been fascinated by random happenings. I got to wondering what an album of photos picked by random numbers might be like. I’ve asked […]

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Aleatory Albums, Costa Rica, Essay, Nature, photograph, Words

Anticipating Aleatory Albums

June 19, 2012by tompostpile 2 Comments

Speculation and experiment rule this post. It’s not a finished piece. Comments and feedback are solicited. Oh the randomness of it all. Why me? Why you? Why this? Why that? […]

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Essay, photograph, Politics, Uncategorized, Words

Whodidit.

June 18, 2012by tompostpile 1 Comment

Pedro, Tomàs!!  Mire! Mecho called to us from the path that led up the mountain. He wanted us to come see something. One of the flowering shrubs he had planted […]

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Costa Rica, Essay, Nature, photograph

Whodunit??? (And a Father’s Day Digression)

June 17, 2012by tompostpile Leave a comment

I am feeling lazy. Yesterday was a long day, with much work, mostly digging in the garden. Did you ever have an infestation of bindweed? Condolences, that stuff’s aggressive. In […]

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Costa Rica, Nature, photograph, Words

What the Heck Is.

June 16, 2012by tompostpile 6 Comments

The “heck” we posted about yesterday is something that we noticed in the shower stall, our outside one, last summer. Lots of places on the Vineyard have outside showers, which […]

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Essay, Gardening, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph

What the Heck???

June 15, 2012by tompostpile 7 Comments

I’ll tell you what it is tomorrow.

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Rainy Day Garden Septet

June 14, 2012by tompostpile 2 Comments

As the old West Tisbury farmer would have said, we’ve just had some good drizzle-drozzle.  Our recent drizzle-drozzle lasted twenty-four hours. The half inch of drizzle-drozzle water we got was […]

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Color, Essay, Gardening, Nature, photograph, Wishetwurra Farm, Words

Po’ Lathyrus

June 13, 2012by tompostpile 2 Comments

The beach peas are blooming. The beach pea is as cosmopolitan as the arctic tern, which migrates from pole to pole and back each year. Where the tern goes, this […]

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Essay, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph

Io You?

June 12, 2012by tompostpile 3 Comments

If you had heard me at my drawing teacher’s door last night, you’d be able to accuse me of using vowel language. When she opened the door, I said, “Io […]

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Essay, Gardening, Nature, photograph

Six Sights Seen Three

June 11, 2012by tompostpile Leave a comment

Lots of things may be seen in these long-houred soraraza days. Calendulas have begun to bloom. I won’t reveal who this person is. The hair is great, and the hat […]

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Color, Essay, Martha's Vineyard, photograph, Wishetwurra Farm, Words

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