. TO BE CONTINUED … Dear faithful readers: PLEASE STAND BY for more Maine sundries & other errant tales while your illustrious host & his beautiful wife hang at the hospital to hatch a baby. time to get this baby born, wish us luck & blessings… until then, enjoy yourselves & be well … More Pardon the Interruption
. 1 after all this northwest rain the sun comes out casting gold across the evergreens. & there above just peeking out the ever clouds: Olympic Mountains, jagged & white. cropped with fresh fallen snow atop shark tooth rocks, which rise & sing above the rain clouds. a mountain vision, & then they’re … More Olympic Mountains, Washington 12/11/23
. a walk down to Point No Point Beach, just me & the Mrs, a muddy Abbey in tow. we lure her along with bag of dog treats, into the woods & down to the sea. watching the mighty container ships sailing in & out of Puget Sound, a drifting rain squall, & the … More Point No Point, Hansville, Washington 12/10/23
. sunset blaze from Fort Sumner Park. the people gather ‘round. crimson ribbon molten & glowing all along the crest of low mountains that walk the western horizon. i wonder which mountains are those ? . . .
. yellow leaves twirling down outside our window across North Street high atop Munjoy Hill. fluttering down atop yellow school bus, blue white metro bus & the car that’s been parked there last couple of days, gathering yellow all along her windshield & flattop. sunshine blazes down over town & all across this … More Yellow leaves, Munjoy Hill, Portland, Maine 11/19/23
. chat up Kathleen, our new neighbor, bottom of the stairs. she tells us she’s tired from volunteering at the school down the street for the kids who are in from Angola this year, “next year it’ll be somewhere else”. she mentions the special purple Portland trash bags & the family of skunks, or is … More Munjoy Hill, Portland, Maine 11/18/23
. catch the bus downtown. take our lunch in the window at Asmara Eritrean. walk Congress, shop at CVS. through the square & through the park. that one i useta sit with my old dog Jakob past the soup kitchen, up the hill. slalom through the construction zone down bottom. cozy in to our … More Portland, Maine, USA 11/17/23
. first cuppa coffee in our new place. stove works, old SF French Press too. Coffee By Design, my old employer, supplies the beans. picked ‘em up at Hannaford last night: first american grocery run of many switch on WMPG see where the groove, the hour, day takes us . . .
. awaken. Munjoy Hill. a silver in the sky, scent of sea in the air. yellow leaves, some falling. wooden houses crowd around. a woman walks her dogs by bay window… we settle in . . .
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