The Morning Paper, A dead bird and Joe Heart Holly

 
 
  Headlights from the paper delivery vehicle shine around the rooms at 4:58 this morning, although the stove clock is set a few minutes off from real time, I should go check that and synchronize them. It is not my morning paper, it is for the neighbors. The morning paper is becoming an anachronism.
   A [...]

Tree Vectors

 
 
 
     The great unanswered trivia question today is where do yoopers live? 
   Pounding rain overnight clears the way and has showered down stringy things from the trees near the six marker, site of a suicide last century. I like the spattering of the tree things and, using an envelope, draw them with arrows to show the tips.  Tree [...]

Overheard in Reading, PA

  Sunday morning.
 Cloud cover.
 God is an Awesome God foreplate.
 Fisherman with cart and accoutrements for a week’s worth of fishing.
Vitamin water bottle, capped, with half a swig left, left on the wood footbridge,
 Predetermined I would pick up a foil shape today: a Six day for metal and helpful people and travel. It looks like bunny with ears, [...]

4.5 Talking Points: the Danger

Walking has physical points: end, beginning, middle, thirds, landmarks, and events. People places things.
Above the pipeline near the ten marker, a woman with earbuds and music player signals Danger ahead:
“There’s a goose out in the middle of the path up ahead – hissing – so be careful!” she says.
Does she refer to the locks?  A [...]

4.5 Periwinklephus

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 [...]

Honey Drops Cough!

One sunny thing today: the yellow pansies at the bakery/coffee shop. Well-groomed lady at the coffee thermoses had a persistent, under the radar cough.
Abbreviated walk. Different direction. Wealth of dropped advertising items. Rocker tee shirt and label for Honey Cough Drops, or so I thought, but it was a typo.
Found a bottle cap showing names [...]

The Day of the Labyrinth

 
   Secret Language of Birthdays for today reads: March 20. The Day of the Labyrinth, so it was decided early that after my walk I would visit the nearest labyrinth. A friend of mine celebrates a birthday today, which the birthday book reveals indicates strengths in the Logical-Sensitive-Versatile areas of life.
  The Heron Report for today [...]

Eureka-ish, I found it! Sort of.

    Aha!  The photograph turns up! It’s the ING Direct ball that was in the creek during fall and early winter. Note: see archives: January 9.
   The Heron Report: A dearth (not death) of herons lately, none in the cold wave and none in the warm snap. Virtually none seen and one heard, not herd, [...]

My Jedi Knight

  There is no heron report for today and no pictures. The Jedi-cat that has been with me for almost nine years is not feeling very well and we are spending what are probably his last hours trying to keep him comfortable.
   Walked at a different place entirely. The Sudoku re:bus for 12/5 is disjointed. [...]

Quote Quota

From Carlyle:
“This city, with all its houses, palaces, steam engines, cathedrals and huge, immeasurable traffic and tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into one – a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, coaches, docks and the rest of it! Not a [...]