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Monthly Archives: January 2018

Wish Coquina Well, OK?

January 31, 2018by tompostpile 2 Comments

Here is Coquina yesterday, right after coming home from the “dogspital”. Coquina has been spayed. She is now an evolutionary dead end. We agonized over whether to sterilize her, and […]

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2018, Coquina, Essay, photograph

Go Figure, OK?

January 30, 2018by tompostpile 2 Comments

I’m not always a good person to go for a walk with, especially when I have a camera in hand. I get distracted. People don’t even expect me to keep […]

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2018, Abstracts, Art, Essay, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, trees, Vermont, West Tisbury

Playtime for Coquina and Levi

January 29, 2018by tompostpile Leave a comment

We were walking in an old field in the middle of the north shore woods, not far from Waskosim’s Rock. “Uh-oh…look over there…here come some people with a dog. Better […]

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2018, Coquina, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, photograph

Parallels

January 28, 2018by tompostpile Leave a comment

Youngest daughter called: “Did we want to go walk to a rock with her?” With her doglet Umi? Now, our Coquina is still a wild playpuppy. Umi is five-years old, […]

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2018, Coquina, Essay, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph

Contemplations on Color

January 27, 2018by tompostpile 1 Comment

On a foggy January day, color, such as there is of it this time of year, tends to the quiet. Our atmosphere grades to diffuse grays. Distant evergreens become taupes, […]

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2018, Color, Coquina, Essay, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, Quansoo

Quansoo Dog

January 26, 2018by tompostpile 2 Comments

As always happens eventually, the Opening at Quansoo has closed. It was probably during a recent period of strong south and southwest winds. The breach has filled. High tides and […]

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2018, Coquina, Martha's Vineyard, photograph, Quansoo

An Unexpected Find

January 23, 2018by tompostpile 1 Comment

When I built our house over thirty years ago, unknown at the time, there were in it seeds for self-destruction in the bathrooms. For some reason or other, paint never […]

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2018, Architecture, Essay, Martha's Vineyard, photograph, West Tisbury

Woodneck Dog

January 21, 2018by tompostpile Leave a comment

We chose to go to windswept and wave-tossed Woodneck Beach. Coquina cruised by the creek. You know from the previous post that at a beach, Coquina can go airborne. These […]

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2018, Cape Cod, Coquina, photograph

Dog in the Air

January 20, 2018by tompostpile 1 Comment

Because what better place for a small dog?

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2018, Coquina, photograph

From Whence?

January 19, 2018by tompostpile Leave a comment

From Whence comes this creature? This Runner… This Leaper…. This Agile Being who can stop or change direction in an instant? Did She spring forth straight out of the Sand […]

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2018, Coquina, Martha's Vineyard, photograph, Quansoo, What is it?

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