Colonial Ad

   Ticket stub, pick of the litter: Colonial AD 000822. Colonial ADULT. Colonial Theater ADULT ticket. Cherish is the word I use to describe.

   Adult ticket and baby heron. 8:14 this morning. First ever sighting of an immature bird. It stands in the grass. It stands about 18″ high. It stands still.

   Because it is a dark and rainy morning following a drenching night, the bird is wet and I have not brought the camera. Of course, when I am unprepared with the camera, this is the time it is most needed.  Back to the car. Here comes a person to jog. Signal intention: there is a young heron up ahead!

   The bird is Oscar if male and Grace if female. It’s a beautiful star and speckled like a hawk and steps with deft, light purpose. It plucks a big fat long worm from the wet grass, a small pond puddle. It waits. I snap. It fishes out another worm, I keep snapping. How does it find them? Another worm. This is why my friend Grumplestiltskin has recommended I take pictures. Productive snapping.

    “But you’re still not professional,”  he tells me. “And I’m a working adult.”

   Along the midsection of the towpath, spot a heron in the water and on the way back, a small snapping turtle attracts attention. We are always alone.

Sign of the Times, Reading PA

   Our stance is neutral.  This is a visual of interest that we photographed on a three day and put in the bitemyhorse.com digital image savings account to ripen and mature.

Sotomayor Sign

lizness katthundheit!

  

Liz Hess art 2009

 

   Cherchez le chat?  God bless the animals!

   July’s edition of Furry Friday at the  Humane Society of Berks County www.berkshumane.org unleashed the work of Liz Hess, a bilingual Lancaster, Pennsylvania artist who speaks the language of Sweden, where dog is hund and cat is katt.

    Behind every great artist is a fine fuzzy friend or two; Hess’s cat, Claude, and her dear dog, Prudence, help with the Lizness business: multiple series of paintings, pastels and prints. We particularly like the parity: for every canine picture,  there is an equal and opposite work for felines.

   Itching for rain? Hess also paints likenesses of red umbrellas, some with animals.

    A giclee (“spraying with ink”) technique is used for about one-third of the paintings. 

    Hess makes a charming habit of annual travel abroad. She lived most of her third decade in Sweden (Lapland).

   Visit: www.lizhess.com

4.5 tongue and groove

 By now the eggshells have been disturbed. A man brings his son and daughter to the creek, his daughter riding on his shoulders, sweet picture. The boy carries a big long stick with two or three prongs at the top. 

One of the joggers today wore an autumn tee-shirt; FALL, it said.

 For so much of my life I have been looking down- it is a natural thing to do.

almost Van Gogh at Arles

The boy has let the stick trail the path as he walked, marking the gravel screenings with a smaller path, and the path is winding, not all straight! Then it shows two lines, as if he had started out carring the other end up first. Like a path within a path, a child-path within the adult path. The line on the earth’s palm. Chained and all.

 

It is Robert Frost’s indelible poem that springs to mind:  “Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood.”  Which reveals today as it has always, even before it was written, of opportunity costs. Sorry I could not travel both, and be one traveller long I stood…and took the one less travelled by.

4.5 Cracked Up to Be

eggshells

Just fine. Just the way I found them.  Just as they are.

4.5 Periwinklephus

Periwinkle plus

Periwinkle (aka Myrtle) blooms this morning, five-petal pinwheels, they are.

 As a member of the dogbane family, the plant is, therefore, the bane of dogs which are disallowed in the park anyway.

 Glorious sunshine, green grass, trees, limestone walls in an ess curve. Divine blue skies from which nothing can be divined because they are without a mark.

 

 

Opportunity costs. If I do item X on my to do list, it means I may be unable to do item Y. To do Y and Z costs X.  There is so much to and prioritizing is necessary.

 

 The Eggstravaganza egg hunt was yesterday; colored chalk drawings are left behind. Presumably, all the eggs taken.  Something wicked this way comes.

 Dyed eggshell pieces on the path. I drive home to fetch the Nikon, hoping no runners and bicyclists disturb the arrangement in the next 14 minutes.

4.5 Waking Thought

Opportunity costs.

Big Rocks Make It

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   Endless devotee of time and task management reading, I am. From Dustin M. Wax at Lifehack: 50 Tricks to Get Things Done: Push the Big Rock. Hey! That’s what Sisyphus does! Of course, there is the snowball effect, so if you start with a small rock, it grows into a big rock the more you push. Friction smooths it out, making the ball bearing better.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/50-tricks-to-get-things-done-faster-better-and-more-easily.html