Pumpkins In PA, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 2009, all photos © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Back in Minnesota and it’s Halloween. I’m home from the 2400 roundtrip air miles, Minneapolis to Pennsylvania. The road trip with Mom from Pennsylvania to Georgia clocked around 1200 driving miles. Fall is beautiful on the [...]
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My Daughter Is A PORTA POTTY For Halloween!
Posted in Art of Rebellion, Family, Fotoblog, Holidays, Laughing, Life, Love, Photography, Relationships, Seasons, tagged Halloween, Halloween costumes, It Takes a Village, outhouse Halloween costume, outrageous Halloween costumes, Porta Potty Halloween costume, Potty Ova Here on October 30, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Start with a box, then paint a sign… …add a handle on the door and a stovepipe vent… …throw in a few flies (because flies like stink)… …and ya got the best Halloween costume ever! What are you [...]
Spirits In The Bosque – Patrick Dougherty Leaves His Mark On Albuquerque
Posted in Architecture, Art, Bones, Culture, Dreams, Everyday Art, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Holding My Breath, Home, Nature, Photography, Place, Quotes, Seasons, Secrets, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, tagged Art in the Schools, Bosque School, building community through the Arts, cottonwood forest, environmental art, LAND/ART New Mexico, nature as muse, Patrick Dougherty, Patrick Dougherty in Albuquerque, Patrick Dougherty's "Here's Looking at You", Rio Grande bosque, Rio Grande Valley, sculpture, stick sculpture, Stickwork, trees, willows on October 28, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Here’s Looking at You, Patrick Dougherty installation at Bosque School, Albuquerque, October 2009, photo © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. One evening last week I went to see North Carolina artist Patrick Dougherty give a talk to an audience of parents, students, faculty and staff of Bosque School, plus a [...]
hindsight haiku — pink cadillac (on the road)
Posted in 13 Moons, 25 Things, Body, Bones, Everyday Art, Family, Growing Older, Haiku, Home, Life, Love, Maps, Memoir, On the Road, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Travel, Vehicles, Wake Up, tagged Cadillacs, cemeteries, Clarks Hill Dam, diners, family legacies, Georgia, lineage, Natural Bridge, Pennsylvania, pink Cadillac, Pink Cadillac Diner, road trips, Roadside Attractions, South Carolina, spending quality time with family & friends, tanka, the practice of haiku, the things I carry, things I learn from my family, things I learned on the road, traveling in the South, vintage cars, Virginia, Westover Memorial Park on October 25, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Pink Cadillac, Hindsight, outside the Pink Cadillac Diner, Natural Bridge, Virginia, October 2009, all photos © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Back in Pennsylvania. I always think I’m going to post more than I do from the road. But at the end of the day, I find myself exhausted. Out as soon as the [...]
Dog Days Of Summer
Posted in Animals & Critters, Body, Bones, Fotoblog, Life, Nature, Place, Seasons, Skies, Weather, tagged autumn, autumn in New Mexico, bring on the rain, dog days of summer, fall, fall in New Mexico, images of pugs, Rio Grande Valley, Sony the pug on October 22, 2009 | 13 Comments »
sony ♥ grass (four), Sony frolicking in the pasture on apple-picking day two weekends ago, October 2009, photos © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. Summer ended with a splash Tuesday afternoon in this part of the Rio Grande Valley. A clap of thunder, and then boom, pouring down rain. For 24 hours the clouds [...]
Bats, Beautiful Bats!
Posted in Animals & Critters, Gratitude, Love, Nature, Photography, Place, Seasons, Skies, Things That Fly, Vision, Wake Up, Word Of The Day, tagged Bat Conservation International, bat habitats, bat habits, Bat World Sanctuary, bats, bats and hummingbirds, bats and tequila, bats and West Nile Virus, bats in New Mexico, being animal friendly, Corrales Bat Habitat Program, Corrales NM, dispelling myths about bats, environmental threats to bats, Halloween, Halloween bats, images of bats, information about bats, insectivorous bats, Jim McCaulley, love of animals, Michelle McCaulley, red Ravine Guests, Rio Grande Basin Bat Project, Rio Grande Valley, the benefits of bats, White Nose Syndrome on October 19, 2009 | 31 Comments »
Bat photos provided by Michelle McCaulley, Rio Grande Basin Bat Project, all rights reserved. There is a cycle in our community that has to do with the seasons at dusk. It begins when our Rio Grande Valley evenings start to warm in spring, pulling us out onto the patio. We look into the purple-orange [...]
runway haiku (take flight)
Posted in 13 Moons, Bodies Of Water, Body, Bones, Dreams, Family, Food, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Home, Life, Love, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Skies, Things That Fly, Travel, Vision, Writing, tagged 10th Moon, airplane food, airplane shots, Blood Moon, change of seasons, fall, Harvest Moon, heading South, Maryland, Minnesota, New Moon, Pennsylvania, planes, quality time with family & friends, the practice of haiku, time travel on October 18, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Yellow, somewhere over Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2009, all photos © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. gassing up the plane yellow sun on horizon I’m running on fumes restless night owl wings clipped over the Midwest sleeping in mid-air voicemail remains full apologies to callers delayed housekeeping wings bobbing in sun to [...]
haiku for Kohler Arts
Posted in Art, Body, Dreams, Everyday Art, Fotoblog, Haiku, Mandalas, On the Road, Photography, Place, Practice, Travel, Vision, tagged bathroom design, beauty in everyday objects, building community through the Arts, everyday objects as muse, family businesses, family legacies, faucets, form follows function, giving back, history of Kohler Company, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Kohler, Kohler Design Center, Kohler sinks, life imitates art, Outsider Art, Ruth DeYoung Kohler, self-taught artists, Sheboygan County, sinks, support of the arts, the value of the Arts, tubs, washrooms, Wisconsin, Wisconsin history on October 15, 2009 | 24 Comments »
Sink Mandala, Kohler Design Center, Kohler, Wisconsin, October 2009, all photos © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. sinks, tubs, and faucets beauty in beholder’s eye form follows function dazzled by bathrooms Zen nests of relaxation “sink into our tubs” preconceived notions dance and spin down spotless drains life imitates art We visited the Kohler [...]
My Life With Dad
Posted in Body, Bones, Death, Dreams, Family, Growing Older, Holding My Breath, Life, Memoir, Personal, Photography, Relationships, Secrets, Silence, tagged bearing witness, Bob Chrisman, brothers & sisters, childhood memories, family history, family legacies, family memories, fathers, fathers and sons, fear & fearlessness, forgiveness, making choices, marriage, memoir writing, mothers, mothers & sons, not being tossed away, old photographs, red Ravine Guests, reflecting on the past, taking a risk through writing, the passage of time, the things I carry, the value of photographs, things I learn from my family, writing about fathers on October 13, 2009 | 52 Comments »
By Bob Chrisman Father & Son, circa 1958, St. Joseph, Missouri, photo © 2009, Bob Chrisman. All rights reserved. On May 3, 1952 I arrived to take part in the family drama. My parents celebrated their twelfth wedding anniversary the week after I was born. Dad had [...]
1-2-3! Apple Pie Gluten-Free!
Posted in Family Recipes, Food, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Life, Love, Photography, Place, Relationships, Seasons, tagged apple harvest, apple pie, apple pie filling, Celiac, Corrales apples, easy as pie, gluten-free apple pie recipe, organic apples, what to do with all those apples, Whole Foods gluten-free pie crusts on October 12, 2009 | 7 Comments »
1. 2. 3. Apple Harvest Pie Gluten-free pie shells from Whole Foods: As with Everything-Whole-Foods, these pie shells are pricey ($7.99 for a package of two shells as of yesterday) BUT in this case, they’re worth the cost. I use both shells to make one pie. (Also, you could buy a Gluten-free pie shell mix, [...]
Our Own Private Balloon Fiesta
Posted in Body, Culture, Family, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Holding My Breath, Home, Life, Photography, Place, Seasons, Silence, Skies, Things That Fly, Vehicles, Wake Up, tagged Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, autumn in New Mexico, Corrales NM, fall in New Mexico, hot air balloons, just being, New Mexico, New Mexico sky, New Mexico traditions, October, places to find beauty, Rio Grande Valley on October 10, 2009 | 15 Comments »
balloon fiesta at home (three), the motto of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is “Mass Happiness” and that’s what we’re feeling on this last weekend of the event, October 10, photos © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Apples For Sale
Posted in Body, Culture, Family, Food, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Haiku, Home, Life, Love, Nature, Photography, Place, Seasons, tagged apple harvest, apples for sale, autumn, autumn in New Mexico, Corrales apples, Corrales NM, farming, fruit trees, harvest, images of apples, New Mexico, New Mexico agriculture, organic apples, Rio Grande Valley on October 9, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Apples for Sale, getting ready to set up a roadside stand in the Rio Grande Valley, photo © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. autumn’s abundance sits on a roadside waiting like good pie filling The trees turn and African daisies fade to shades of . We harvest the trees We pluck and pick and [...]
Envy
Posted in Art, Body, Jugular, Secrets, Vision, Word Of The Day, tagged 7 Deadly Sins, Art Propensity, artistic exploration of envy, drawing, Envy, Envy as muse, ENVY Contest, ENVY Contest honorable mentions, Envy the Documentary, Out of The Blue Films Inc, Patricia Anders, red Ravine Guests, taking risks, What is the nature of envy? on October 8, 2009 | 14 Comments »
By Patricia Anders Envy, drawing © 2009 by Patricia Anders. All rights reserved. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Patricia Anders received honorable mention in the Out of The Blue Films, Inc. ENVY Contest at red Ravine for her drawing Envy. You can find out more about Patricia and her artwork here and here. Congratulations, Patricia, from [...]
Envy
Posted in Jugular, Relationships, Short Story, Topic Writing, tagged 7 Deadly Sins, artistic exploration of envy, Envy, Envy as muse, ENVY Contest, ENVY Contest honorable mentions, Envy the Documentary, Out of The Blue Films Inc, red Ravine Guests, taking risks, writing about envy, writing about the 7 Deadly Sins on October 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
By Anonymous As unaccountable as feeling, as inevitable, inconvenient and beautiful as tumultuous weather, a circumstance has arisen in which I am envied by a woman far more successful than I. The Woman Who Envies Me, or let us call her WWEM for short, like a radio station, decided at some point that [...]
Beloved Rival
Posted in Death, Jugular, Life, Obituaries & Epitaphs, Poetry, Relationships, Secrets, Topic Writing, Word Of The Day, tagged 7 Deadly Sins, artistic exploration of envy, Eileen Malone, Envy, Envy as muse, ENVY Contest, ENVY Contest honorable mentions, Envy the Documentary, Out of The Blue Films Inc, red Ravine Guests, rivalry, taking risks, writing about envy on October 6, 2009 | 10 Comments »
By Eileen Malone I’m phoning you, pick up, I say aloud I know you’re there, I’m driving by your house damn it, I see your car parked in front there is no answer, not even a machine click then I remember that you are dead how I begrudged you winning first prize when [...]
Untitled
Posted in Essay, Jugular, Life, Love, Relationships, Secrets, Topic Writing, Writers, Writing, tagged 7 Deadly Sins, artistic exploration of envy, Charis Fleming, Envy, Envy as muse, ENVY Contest, ENVY Contest honorable mentions, Envy the Documentary, motherhood, mothers and daughters, Out of The Blue Films Inc, red Ravine Guests, taking risks, writing about envy on October 5, 2009 | 10 Comments »
By Charis Fleming I watch from across the room as the tow headed boy climbs into her lap and snuggles next to her chest. Absentmindedly she reaches into her blouse to loosen a bulging breast, the liquid already spilling from the nipple onto the back of her hand. He quickly latches on and suckles [...]
Like Paul
Posted in Bones, Film / TV / Video, Holding My Breath, Jugular, Life, Music, Poetry, Relationships, Secrets, Topic Writing, Word Of The Day, tagged 7 Deadly Sins, artistic exploration of envy, Envy, Envy as muse, ENVY Contest, ENVY Contest winner, Envy the Documentary, Jill L. Ferguson, Like Paul, Out of The Blue Films Inc, red Ravine Guests, taking risks, win an Amazon Kindle, writing about envy, writing about the 7 Deadly Sins on October 1, 2009 | 21 Comments »
By Jill L. Ferguson At the age of four his feet first crossed the stage, miniature violin tucked under his chin, audience rapt from the first symphonic note. He held and released each tone picturing it hover like a bird in flight, closing his eyes into the sound. After the applause, words he did [...]
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