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Monthly Archives: January 2013

January Thaw

January 31, 2013by tompostpile Leave a comment

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 […]

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Essay, Nature, photograph

What Noise Annoys an Oyster? (Learning to Draw)

January 30, 2013by tompostpile 3 Comments

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 […]

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Art, Drawing, Essay, Gardening, Nature, photograph

Two Lookings-Into, Off Music Street

January 27, 2013by tompostpile 5 Comments

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 […]

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Essay, Martha's Vineyard, Music Street, Nature, photograph

Friday Olio

January 25, 2013by tompostpile Leave a comment

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 […]

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Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph

To the Side of Route 28

January 24, 2013by tompostpile 1 Comment

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 […]

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Color, Essay, photograph, Route 28

A Regression of Houses on Route 28, Cape Cod

January 23, 2013by tompostpile 4 Comments

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 […]

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Architecture, Color, Essay, photograph

Snowdrops

January 20, 2013by tompostpile 3 Comments

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 […]

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Essay, Gardening, Nature, photograph

Abstracts from a Rainy Day

January 16, 2013by tompostpile 1 Comment

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 […]

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Art, Color, photograph, Woods Hole

Sticker Shock, or, Inside a Trunk: A Grand Tour of Asia.

January 14, 2013by tompostpile 1 Comment

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. […]

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Essay, photograph, Travel

Carpe Diem: Cedar Tree Neck II

January 13, 2013by tompostpile 1 Comment

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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Cedar Tree Neck, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph

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