So Often Tender, Fun to Do

 
 
  Women are the strangest creatures the way they fly around. Myself included and I am unlike other women. Soft, yet hard to understand, something fit to be placed on Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Chalk to diamonds. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We all fall down.
   Monday set out some frames and fabric [...]

Juglans nigra

 
    This green parking garage stub Poplar & Walnut – 12 makes the pick of the litter, to pick up where we left off. The black walnut grows here; Juglans nigra, with its round green nut casings aplenty, secreting pungent messages. The tulip poplar is one of the more dominant trees in these forests. Tall and proud [...]

Ron, Walk

 
 
   A rise in nuts. Tears from fears. Can the squirrels keep up? Can I get back on the horse? Woe is not me! Whoa, maybe.
   Ron reports he thinks there are more black walnuts on the ground this year than ever before. He says take care walking or running on the trail, not to turn an ankle. A non-walnut [...]

Shelly

  
 
 How out of  joint can a morning be?
Tiny writing on the back of the yellow trivia card. Great big Shelly in cursive writing on the towpath. Walk done when I see the sun.
   What is the straight and narrow? A heron wades in the straight and shallow waters. Strait and wide.
   Even so, find odd [...]

Sweetish Fish

   Swedish fish are one thing and Sweet-ish fish are something else. We create the sweet-ish ones in the studio this morning.
   Sounding like a politician today: a heron at every turn: one wades in the dawn’s early light and at the edge of the creek, near the footbridge on the picnic peninsula.
   One looks [...]

DURO 6 Arias, Constitution Day 2009 and the Paper Czar

 
 
   We the editors of  The Heron Report present the preamble of the United States Constitution and some items donated by the Paper Czar.
   Our own day begins with a kind of preamble. We walk along the creek. We come to the studio and office and and convene with our in-house representatives, including the Paper Czar. We [...]

Deer Crossing

 
    Posted in invisible ink Labor Day! Today, post haste! Take your time, there’s no time to waste, no time like the present!
   Why is this black truck slowing along Tulpehocken road heading east, parallel to my walking west along the towpath at 7:12 a.m?  The Tulpehocken creek separates us. A natural event joins us: [...]

Angel Hair Stamp Act

 
  Gun Owner stamped in red ink on a five dollar bill. A federal res, a thing of the past. Federal reserve note this. Polished off the pasta two nights ago, saving the box for today a nine day. Hence, this arrangement. Only tile in scrabble worth five points is a K.
   A heron along the banks. Flying [...]

App 3.0

  
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                                                   Apple. Makes 2 quarts.
                                       Quartz. Le apple app. App App
                                     App.  Application. Applejack.  How
                                    do you like like them apples, Jack?
                                       App le. Le App. Le  App, Jacques.
                                            Applique. Makes 2 quartz. 
                                                      Lots of apps A is4
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Flea Market Junkie: Bastard Files and The Secret of Rosy Cheeks

  
    Six day. Abandon routine in favor of flea market, sunny and clear.  A friend has fed this habit by giving me a flea market guide; seems like a good day to try my luck. Go before seven. Back by ten. Finds listed as follows:
   Post Card: $1.50 Postmarked 28 Sept. 1906. Depicts Memorial Hall in Fairmount [...]