Posted in Art, Haiku, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Secrets, tagged Alexander Calder, Calder's Braniff work, Milwaukee Art Museum, planes, Red Black Blue, The Lost Calder Files, the practice of haiku on May 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Art Lives Here, Red, Black, Blue, Calder
Sculpture, Milwaukee Art Museum,
Wisconsin, May 2008, photo © 2008
by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
art lives in the flesh
holds riddles, true colors show
Calder painted planes
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, May 31st, 2008
-related to posts, spinner haiku, haiku (one-a-day)
Posted in Bodies Of Water, Body, Bones, Culture, Death, Great Places To Write, Growing Older, Haiku, Home, Life, Nature, Obituaries & Epitaphs, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Relationships, Silence, Skies, Spirituality, Structure, Wake Up, tagged community as witness, expect the unexpected, funerals, graves, Great Lakes, honoring the dead, Lake Michigan, letting go, matriarchs, pensive days, rest in peace, The Grandmothers, Wisconsin, writing community, writing retreats on May 30, 2008 | 38 Comments »
Letting Go, funeral pyre on Lake Michigan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, May 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
It’s one of those gray days in Minneapolis. A storm kicked up her heels last night, a gale force blowing through my dreams. Mr. StripeyPants is draped over a soft brown blanket next to me on [...]
Posted in Culture, Fiction, Laughing, Life, On the Road, Photography, Place, Word Of The Day, tagged Espanola NM, grocery stores, humor, New Mexico, oxymorons, photographing signs, small towns, superettes on May 27, 2008 | 32 Comments »
What should we name the store?
Yeah, I’ve been thinking about this. How about … “VALLEY SUPERMARKET”?
SUPERmarket?? It’s not a supermarket. Smith’s in Taos is a supermarket. Albertsons in Santa Fe is a supermarket.
No, no, no, wait a second. This is big, man, this is huge. Our store is gonna be the biggest one this town has seen. It’s [...]
Posted in 13 Moons, Bodies Of Water, Body, Bones, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Seasons, Skies, Writing Practices, tagged Blossom Moon, changing seasons, gardens, May full moon, moon over Lake Michigan, Planting Moon, spring in Minnesota, the practice of writing, writing about the moon on May 25, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Blossom Moon, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, May 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
The May Blossom Moon rose quietly over Lake Michigan. Saturday night, she dodged high cirrus clouds and streaks of intermittent rain. Sunday she was more sure of herself, dressed in pale yellow with a silvery sheen on glacial tides. Does the [...]
Posted in 25 Things, Art, Doodling, Food, Practice, Topic Writing, tagged food aversions, olives, the practice of doodling, the practice of haiku on May 24, 2008 | 27 Comments »
Olive and other Weird Food, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
blood sausage scrambled
brains, head cheese, menudo, spam
olives ain’t so bad
-from Topic post, WRITING TOPIC – OLIVES
Posted in Food, Personal, Practice, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged food aversions, food people hate, olives, writing about food on May 23, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Olives, I prefer the ones with pits. Not California, but the real ones, the ones that haven’t been sanitized for an American audience.
Olives, of the twisted-gnarly-tree variety, and I love olive trees, too, they can live to well over a thousand years. I saw the olive tree in the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem, and [...]
Posted in 25 Things, Culture, Food, Personal, Practice, Secrets, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged food and culture, food aversions, food people hate, olives, Southern cooking, writing about food on May 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’m not a big fan of olives. The historical and biblical references to the olive are more engaging to me than the food itself. I don’t like stinky cheese either. And what about pickle juice? I don’t drink it. But it’s the secret ingredient in my potato salad. I make it the Southern way: lots [...]
Posted in Animals & Critters, Family, Home, Life, Money, Nature, Personal, Photography, Relationships, Things That Fly, tagged box turtles, garage sales, good luck, horses, hummingbirds, love of animals on May 20, 2008 | 35 Comments »
Rescued Hummer, freeing the bird that was stuck in the
shed, photo © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
This weekend Jim rescued a hummingbird that got stuck in our potting shed. It flew into an open door then couldn’t find its way out. Just as it seemed to be on the verge of exhaustion from flitting [...]
Posted in 25 Things, Food, Practice, Writing Topics, tagged food aversions, food memories, food people hate, olives, writing about food on May 16, 2008 | 56 Comments »
Last night for dinner I made Pasta Puttanesca. This is a basic Italian dish with not-so-basic ingredients: garlic, capers, gaetta olives, and anchovies. Yum.
What? Not yum? You don’t like anchovies? No capers? Olives? Not even OLIVES!?!
OK, some people don’t like olives. Or, if they like olives, they only like California pitted olives, the kind you can [...]
Posted in Animals & Critters, Laughing, Nature, Personal, Photography, Word Of The Day, tagged anthropomorphizing animals, Baby the bullsnake, bullsnake, pet bullsnake on May 15, 2008 | 26 Comments »
Baby was up and at it the other day. She almost seemed to be posing for me. She’d eaten a rat a few days earlier, and the sluggishness from winter had all but worn off.
Do you ever look at your animals and wonder what’s going on inside their heads? I do, especially [...]
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