Posted in Animals & Critters, Laughing, Nature, Personal, Photography, tagged anthromorphizing animals, Baby the bullsnake, bullsnake, pet bullsnake on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Animals & Critters, Nature, Photography, Place, Seasons, Things That Fly, tagged bee hives, bee keeping, bee sting therapy, bee swarms, bee venom, Elvis sightings, honey bees, New Mexico, Rio Grande Valley on May 6, 2008 | 29 Comments »
Elvis in a Bee Swarm, bees annoint a new queen in the Rio
Grande Valley, photos © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
I know. It’s a stretch.
No way the bee swarm in the above photo is formed in the image of Elvis Presley’s head. The chin is all wrong. Jay Leno with dark sunglasses, maybe, but definitely [...]
Posted in Body, Bones, Death, Life, Nature, Personal, Seasons, Skies, Writing Practices, tagged April full moon, changing seasons, Frog Moon, Pink Moon, spring in Minnesota, the practice of writing, writing about the moon on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
I was torn. Pink Moon, Frog Moon, Moon of the Greening Grass. I liked Flower Moon and Broken Snowshoe Moon. I imagined fumbling out of a leather strap on an antique snowshoe, ice jamming the buckle, stepping out just long enough to sink knee-deep into what’s left of Winter. But it is the Frog Moon [...]
Posted in Body, Bones, Culture, Death, Haiku, Life, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Silence, Spirituality, Taos, tagged 1 Year Anniversary of Virginia Tech, anniversaries, black & white photography, Georgia O'Keeffe, homage, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Morada Walk, New Mexico, Penitentes, Taos Mountain, the practice of haiku, white cross on April 16, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Morada Walk, Taos Mountain in the background, white
cross Georgia O’Keeffe painted, Taos, New Mexico,
January 2003, Tri-X black & white film print, photo ©
2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
gusty April winds
ruffle brambled shoots of green
Spring bounds from behind
anniversaries
separate fiction from fact
squeeze light from the dark
photosynthesis
through veins of a single leaf
gives life to the world
-posted on red Ravine, [...]
Posted in Everyday Art, Haiku, Laughing, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, tagged rubber stamp collection, the practice of haiku, tools of the trade on April 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Rubber Stamp, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 100-year-old maple floors of the Casket Arts Building, April 3rd, 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
ink covers rubber
thunder blizzard covers spring
paper covers wood
-posted on red Ravine, Thursday, April 10th, 2008
-related to posts: haiku (one-a-day), WRITING TOPIC - TOOLS OF THE TRADE, ybonesy’s PRACTICE: Tools Of The Trade - [...]
Posted in Everyday Art, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Wake Up, tagged the practice of haiku on April 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Streaked Window, today’s view, photo © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
there’s a tree outside
it has tiny yellow blossoms
glowing in the dark
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Posted in Architecture, Art, Culture, Family, Fotoblog, Laughing, Nature, Personal, Photography, Place, Seasons, Skies, Structure, Vision, Weather, tagged Art Shanty Projects, David Pittman, Medicine Lake, Peter Haakon Thompson, The Art Of Ice, winter in Minnesota on April 6, 2008 | 10 Comments »
The Face Of Winter, Medicine Lake, Minnesota, February 2008, photo
© 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
When photographer Peter Haakon Thompson came up with the Art Shanty Projects in 2003, he never meant for it to become a huge event. The original plan was to take a break from work, build his own ice shack, and [...]
Posted in Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Silence, Skies, Taos, tagged New Mexico, Seasons, Taos Mountain, the practice of haiku on April 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
descending, Taos Mountain in winter, Taos, New Mexico, C-41 color film print, January 2003, photo © 2003-2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Taos Mountain sunset
holds a fading memory
yellow snaps of sage
-posted on red Ravine, Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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Posted in Animals & Critters, Bones, Culture, Dreams, Nature, Personal, Place, Practice, Recall, Seasons, Silence, Skies, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, Writing Practices, tagged Ali Selim, March full moon, spring in Minnesota, Sweet Land, Will Weaver, Wind Moon, writing about the moon on March 29, 2008 | 10 Comments »
All is quiet in my home. I am staring out at wind rocking the trees. Mr. StripeyPants curls up on the wool blanket beside me. I connect to something wild in him. I’m reminded of my March practices – mandalas and writing about the moon. Where has she been hiding? I don’t remember seeing her this [...]
Posted in Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Silence, Skies, tagged holding space, the practice of haiku, the sun, winter in Minnesota on March 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Holding Space, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
lake frozen in place
yellow sun sinking behind
holding silent space
-posted on red Ravine, Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
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Posted in Animals & Critters, Family, Growing Older, Laughing, Life, Nature, Personal, Place, Practice, Relationships, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged bugs, doodlebugs, humans & nature, insects, memories of bugs, the practice of writing, writing about bugs on March 25, 2008 | 10 Comments »
There is a lot I don’t know about insects, spiders, and bugs. I do know they are connected to memories, sometimes traumatic memories. I had no idea my family had so many connected memories about bugs and creepy crawlers until this Writing Topic was posted and I started reading their comments. Memories are part of [...]
Posted in Animals & Critters, Family, Nature, Personal, Practice, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged arthropods, bugs, insects, writing about bugs on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know much about bugs. Not their scientific names nor which ones are considered to be insects and which are not. I think insects are a subset of a larger group called arthropods, of which spiders are also a subset. And I think there is something about a bug’s body — how many sections [...]
Posted in Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, tagged cedars, changing seasons, the practice of haiku, trees on March 22, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Coming Up For Air, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
buried in March snow
cedar branches flex and bend
coming up for air
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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Posted in Animals & Critters, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, tagged creepy crawlers, home remedies, spiders, the practice of haiku on March 21, 2008 | 37 Comments »
big spider, Rock Creek Regional Park, Maryland,
photo © 2008 by R3. All rights reserved.
bugs, bugs everywhere
why do we invade their world
swirling stick circles
4 or 5 inch legs
webmaster spins silken tales
spider sense prevails
-posted on red Ravine, Friday, March 21st, 2008
-related to posts: haiku (one-a-day), WRITING TOPIC - INSECTS & SPIDERS & BUGS, OH MY!, and My Totem [...]
Posted in Gratitude, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Wake Up, tagged changing seasons, spring equinox, the practice of haiku on March 20, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Sun! Thank You!, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 2007, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
dark in a half light
seed buds pull out of hiding
snowless sun, thank you
-posted on red Ravine, Spring Equinox, Thursday, March 20th, 2008
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Posted in Animals & Critters, Nature, Photography, Seasons, Things That Fly, Writing Topics, tagged bugs, Child of the Earth, image of ants, images of Jerusalem Cricket, insects, spiders on March 19, 2008 | 38 Comments »
Child of the Earth and Me, a Jerusalem Cricket in the Rio Grande Valley on a March morning, photos © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
The weather is getting warm, which means insects and spiders are coming out.
I almost burned the sausage the other morning on account of running outside to look at an unusual creature [...]
Posted in Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, tagged change of seasons, the practice of haiku, trees on March 18, 2008 | 14 Comments »
March Leaves, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
wet snow and brown leaves
chase the budding potential
rivers through gutters
-posted on red Ravine, Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
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Posted in Culture, Jugular, Life, Love, Nature, Personal, Politics, Practice, Topic Writing, Wake Up, Writing Practices, tagged making politics a spiritual Practice, March snowstorms, order & chaos, the Zen of flat tire repair, Turkey medicine, unity for the good of the whole, writing about mess, writing as a practice on March 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The world is a messy place. My home? It is messy in spots, little corners, under the living room table, around the computer desk. It finds order when we clean. And returns to chaos again. I usually recognize an order to the chaos. I manage to find what I need. I’m staring out the window [...]
Posted in Animals & Critters, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Seasons, Wake Up, tagged Baby the bullsnake, pet bullsnake, snake on March 14, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Baby Bath, Baby the Bullsnake taking a bath the first day she comes out of hibernation, photos © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
coiled in water
baby awakens with flair
winter has ended
-related to posts: haiku (one-a-day), Meet Baby!
Posted in Haiku, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Skies, tagged sunsets, the movement of time, the practice of haiku, trees on March 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Ask, Oak, Cedar, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
March 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey.
All rights reserved.
time crawls, sweeps sunset
off branches of winter dew
ash, oak, and cedar
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, March 9th, 2008
-related to posts: haiku (one-a-day)
Posted in Bones, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Writers, tagged ice, leaves, Nature's secrets, the practice of haiku, tracks, unearthing old bones, winter in Minnesota on March 6, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Tracks, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
March winds rock the house
the writer sits at her desk
unearthing old bones
-posted on red Ravine, Thursday, March 6th, 2008
-related to posts: haiku (one-a-day) and snow flying on ice (sound haiku)
Posted in Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, tagged February Snow Moon, moondog haiku, the practice of haiku on March 1, 2008 | 7 Comments »
MoonDog, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
February moon
high over Medicine Lake
hides from the shadows
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, March 1st, 2008
-related to posts: haiku (one-a-day), PRACTICE - Snow Moon (Total Lunar Eclipse) - 20min, and WRITING TOPIC - CIRCLES
Posted in Body, Bones, Culture, Life, Nature, Personal, Practice, Seasons, Secrets, Skies, Writing Practices, tagged Bone Moon, cabin fever, February Full Moon, Lunar Eclipse, Nature's secrets, Raccoon Moon, Snow Moon, winter in Minnesota on February 25, 2008 | 19 Comments »
The Full Snow Moon was bright, then blood red, the last Total Lunar Eclipse until 2012. There are many names for February’s Moon: Sleet Moon, Goose Moon, Coyote Moon. I even found a reference from the Sioux, Raccoon Moon. I thought of our resident raccoon. I bundled wool over exposed skin, stood outside in no [...]
Posted in Art, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Secrets, Things That Fly, Wake Up, tagged Audio Art, Nature's secrets, recording nature, sound technology, the practice of haiku, the sound of snow and ice, winter in Minnesota on February 24, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Snow Flying On Ice, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
thick lumbering lake
bristles at the crackling sound
snow flying on ice
Lake Ice Booming - 1min
Recorded by Audio Producer/Editor/Mixer, Curt Olson at Track Seventeen
More sounds of Winter at: The Sound of Snow and Ice - Various Artists at Gruenrekorder
-posted on red Ravine, [...]
Posted in Authors, Bones, Home, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Seasons, Structure, Writers, Writing, tagged American poets, listening to Robert Frost, places writers call home, Robert Frost, Robert Frost statue at Dartmouth, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, writers in their own voices on February 21, 2008 | 28 Comments »
Shadows Of The Cattail, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Robert Frost was an American poet who lived from March 26, 1874, to January 29, 1963. He was born in San Francisco, made his way to Massachusetts via Harvard, and finally settled in New Hampshire.
My 3rd grade English teacher, Mrs. [...]
Posted in Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Wake Up, tagged circles, the practice of haiku, winter in Minnesota on February 16, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Circles On Circles, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
the pond from the house
shadows of living trees, ice
circles on circles
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, February 16th, 2008
-related to post, haiku (one-a-day) and WRITING TOPIC - CIRCLES
Posted in Body, Bones, Nature, Personal, Practice, Seasons, Things That Fly, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged feathers, Great Greys, osprey, raptors, writing about feathers on February 16, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The last feather I saw was a curved downy fluff next to Mr. StripeyPants on the bed. The two comforters are filled with the down of the goose. One is cinnamon, new and soft and fresh. The other, faded pink, old and wearing thin. We have patched the mauve one several times. But alas, there [...]
Posted in Family, Nature, Practice, Things That Fly, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged feathers, writing about feathers on February 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The last time I saw a feather was a few hours ago. I pulled into the driveway after running an errand, and I noticed two turkey feathers stuck into the edge of a foamcore poster board advertising LIVE HERITAGE TURKEYS FOR SALE. All caps.
Turkey feathers are big and plain, at least these ones are. I like [...]
Posted in Body, Bones, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, tagged cattails, the practice of haiku, winter in Minnesota on February 13, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Cattail Sun, -25 wind chilled February day, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
ears red from the wind
snow flies off frozen boot tips
cattail fluffs her hair
-posted on red Ravine, Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
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Posted in Animals & Critters, Art, Bones, Culture, Nature, Photography, Practice, Things That Fly, Wake Up, Writing, Writing Topics, tagged feathers as symbols, feathers throughout history, light as a feather, Shield of Courage, writing about feathers on February 11, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Let’s talk feathers. Light as a feather, feather in your cap, feathered pillows, feathered hair. I’ve been collecting bird feathers since 1984. I find them on long walks through the woods; I find them in the sidewalk cracks along city roads.
Feathers have been used in every culture since the beginning of time. In South American [...]
Posted in Body, Bones, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Skies, Wake Up, tagged moonrise, the practice of haiku, winter in Minnesota on February 10, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Quarter Oak Sky, -25 wind chilled February day, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
quarter oak moonrise
behind a sliver of sky
holds bonechilling peace
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, February 10th, 2008
-related to post, haiku (one-a-day)
Posted in Maps, Nature, Place, Practice, Seasons, Things That Fly, Topic Writing, Wake Up, Weather, Writing Practices, tagged midwinter blues, mind maps, navigating winter, where safety hides on February 9, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Walking with my friend around a shadowed pond, -25 wind chills. We talked and talked and talked, ate tomato soup out of two ceramic cups while the wind floated snow between icy gusts. And then we slowly walked, holding crimson ears with the palms of our hands, ungloved to take a photograph of a tuft [...]
Posted in Body, Bones, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, Secrets, tagged midwinter blues, Northwestern Casket Arts Building, the practice of haiku, where safety hides on February 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Safety Hides, Northwestern Casket Arts Building wall sign, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2007, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
tree swing rocks the snow
blizzard swirls on the blue deck
no safe place to hide
-posted on red Ravine, Saturday, February 9th, 2008
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Posted in Gratitude, Haiku, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Skies, Wake Up, Weather, tagged image of sunrise, new day, New Mexico sky on February 6, 2008 | 11 Comments »
A new day, detail of sun rising on an end-of-January morning, Rio Grande Valley clouds and sunrise in winter, photos © 2008 by Jim. All rights reserved.
yesterday it snowed
the earth knows how parched i’ve been
sun rises in my heart
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Posted in Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, Photography, Poetry, Practice, tagged Holding My Breath, Silence, turning of the seasons on February 4, 2008 | 23 Comments »
After The Storm, Holding My Breath Series, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
snow on the blue porch
quiet, listening to silence
in a pregnant pause
-posted on red Ravine, Monday, February 4th, 2008
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