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Blue Tile Roof: Ao!!!

April 25, 2018by tompostpile 3 Comments

Here in “Nor’England” there are few tile roofs. Over there, in Japan, are many. I don’t know a lot about these roof tiles. In Japanese they’re called “kawara”. Here’s a […]

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2018, Abstracts, Architecture, Art, Color, Essay, Japan, photograph, Things Seen, Travel

Medusae from a Pier: Naoshima

March 25, 2018by tompostpile Leave a comment

One of our stops on this Japan trip was Naoshima, an island in the Seto Sea. We came to this island to experience its constellation of major and minor art […]

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2018, Abstracts, Color, Haiku, Japan, Nature, photograph, Travel

Through the Hills at Nightfall

March 16, 2018by tompostpile 1 Comment

  We left Mount Fuji behind us, and continued into the darkening land. Details reduced in the dimming light, and shapes took over. As we went through this place I’d […]

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2018, Abstracts, Color, Essay, Haiku, Japan, Landscapes, Nature, photograph

Thing of Beauty: The Arse End of a Dead Bird

February 26, 2018by tompostpile 4 Comments

Some family members have just returned from a trip to their home in Costa Rica. On their last day they found a hole in one of their screens. Soon afterwards […]

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2018, Abstracts, Art, Birds, Color, Costa Rica, Nature, photograph

Old Upside Down Bottoms

February 25, 2018by tompostpile 1 Comment

Off-season in late February, at a private boat landing on Town Cove, the Pond water is high. So high that access to the old dock is boots-only. Along the edges […]

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2018, Abstracts, Color, Essay, Martha's Vineyard, photograph, West Tisbury

Abstracts From The Burn Pile II

February 24, 2018by tompostpile 4 Comments

Let’s go back to that burn pile I encountered not long ago. I was going to write about what fire had done to the things in that pile, but got […]

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2018, Abstracts, Art, Color, Essay, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, photograph

What’s to See Up Close?

February 23, 2018by tompostpile Leave a comment

I took a walk the other afternoon….There are still three or four posts that could be extracted from those hundred and forty minutes of in-the-moment meandering. But for now let’s […]

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2018, Abstracts, Color, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, Olio, photograph, What can you see in???

Abstracts From The Burn Pile

February 21, 2018by tompostpile 1 Comment

In “Auguries of Innocence”, Blake spoke of a World in a Grain of Sand. It’s a poem worth reading. My camera’s range is not up to the challenge of Blake’s […]

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2018, Abstracts, Color, Essay, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, trees

Scenes on the Shore

February 15, 2018by tompostpile Leave a comment

We’re on the South Shore a lot these days, what with exercising the doglet, but she’s had so many posts lately that we’ll leave her out of this one, and […]

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2018, Abstracts, Black Point Beach, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, Quansoo

Things Seen Lately: Olio

February 6, 2018by tompostpile 1 Comment

Notice: This post will be a digressive ramble.  From time to time the ‘pile publishes a group of unrelated pictures, pictures of interest that don’t have a major unifying theme. […]

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2018, Abstracts, Color, Essay, Flowers, Nature, Olio, photograph, Words

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