January Thaw
One week ago our nighttime low temperature approached zero. An increasingly powerful south wind has been blowing for a few days. It makes fog as the warm air passes over […]
Monthly Archives: January 2013
What Noise Annoys an Oyster? (Learning to Draw)
Io, Io, it’s off to work we go! Actually, it’s not “work” I was off to. Fall, winter, and spring, my wife and I attend a natural history illustration class […]
Two Lookings-Into, Off Music Street
As of this writing, the number of “visits” to this little’pile has reached 12,176. Thanks to everyone who has come by, you from all parts of the planet, you from […]
Friday Olio
Olio. Not a butter substitute, but a miscellany. A quick quintuplet of interesting images that haven’t so far found a place in any other group. As always, there’s a story […]
To the Side of Route 28
When you’re not driving, you have more time to notice the passing roadscape. There are some good road names along the way. It’s such a relief when subdividers leave the […]
A Regression of Houses on Route 28, Cape Cod
We have been driving back and forth from Falmouth to Hyannis lately. The other day was my turn to be a passenger, so I got to take pictures. The road […]
Snowdrops
Winter’s seesaw. Today is sunny. Midday temperatures are forecast to be in the fifties. In forty-eight hours, we expect nighttime temperatures in the single digits. In the midst of this […]
Abstracts from a Rainy Day
Rain. Rain last night. Rain this morning. Rain until midday. Stop for a coffee. Find yourself looking at the coffee roaster. And then at the legs that support the island […]
Sticker Shock, or, Inside a Trunk: A Grand Tour of Asia.
There is a trunk at the Martha’s Vineyard Community Services Thrift Shop on Chicken Alley in downtown Vineyard Haven. Today it serves as a display container for old picture frames. […]
Carpe Diem: Cedar Tree Neck II
Part the Second. Chilled, we left the Cedar Tree Neck beach for the less-windy woods. A sassafrass tree, bent and split by a northeast wind, has fallen over the trail. […]
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