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Early Spring Opening.

March 31, 2018by tompostpile Leave a comment

Most of the tompostpile’s March has been “Japan”. I’m not done with Japan. I never will be. Sorting through the experience, and through the thousands of photos taken, will take […]

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2018, Birds, Black Point Beach, Coquina, Essay, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, Quansoo, South Beach, Words

Sakura!

March 30, 2018by tompostpile 1 Comment

“Sakura” was one of the first Japanese words I ever learned. Sakura = cherry blossom. Here’s a character for “sakura”. I wish I knew about ten thousand more ideograms. In […]

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2018, Color, Flowers, Gardening, Japan, Landscapes, Nature, photograph, Travel, Words

First Walk.

March 9, 2018by tompostpile 2 Comments

To travel twenty-four hours with little sleep makes a person dead-tired. I may even have been asleep before my body touched the mattress. The night’s sleep was an expedition to […]

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2018, Architecture, Color, Essay, Flowers, Gardening, Haiku, Japan, Landscapes, Nature, photograph, Travel, trees, Words

Curious Coquina Studies the Supine

March 4, 2018by tompostpile 2 Comments

Coquina is a cheerful and intelligent canine. At Quansoo a few days ago, the wind was low and the sun was pleasantly warm. For late February, it was preposterously pleasant. […]

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

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

Coquina at the Beach…

September 16, 2017by tompostpile 6 Comments

Please forgive this besotted author if the tompostpile seems to have entered an “All Puppy All the Time!” phase. Our hearts have been stolen by five pounds of little dog. […]

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2017, Black Point Beach, Coquina, Essay, Martha's Vineyard, photograph, Words

Love Apples

August 27, 2017by tompostpile 2 Comments

Love Apples. “Pomodoro”, in Italian. “Tomato” in English, and the word is similarly sounded in many other languages. Tomatoes are “Nyanya” in Swahili. They’re”Yaanyo” in Somali, and “Utamatisi” in Zulu. […]

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2017, Art, Color, Gardening, Martha's Vineyard, photograph, West Tisbury, Words

A Little Walk on Little Bay

August 10, 2017by tompostpile Leave a comment

From time to time we like to go for a walk. The gods of serendipity often look on our walks with favor, and dish up unexpected surprises. It was also […]

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2017, Birds, Landscapes, Nature, photograph, Travel, trees, What can you see in???, Words

Three, Just for Pretty

July 27, 2017by tompostpile Leave a comment

Here are a few just-for-pretty pictures, all taken in a minute or so, all within twenty-five feet of the door of the house. Farthest from the door is a pink […]

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2017, Color, Essay, Flowers, Gardening, Nature, photograph, Wishetwurra Farm, Words

Bad Pun

April 6, 2017by tompostpile 2 Comments

I woke up this morning trying to make a pun on “ammoniac”, and I didn’t have a lot of luck, despite having felt I was on the scent of something […]

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2017, Uncategorized, Words

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