Saturday, March 30, 2013

This Year's Easter Egg Experiment














Spring Break at Massanutten















Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Pics from Massanutten

 

 
 












Sunday, March 24, 2013

Sunday Thoughts at Massanutten

Out walking early, maybe 6:45 or so.  Behind the cool, blue mountaintops, hot fuchsia.  Crows--loud.  Chickadees.  Canada geese and three mallards.  A startled Blue Heron.  I pick up a pine cone and feel its scalloped edges.  It's one of those long ones, perfectly shaped.  A woodpecker clatters on top an early spring tree, still gray and leafless, but not foodless.  The stream runs.  It falls over some rocks and into a shallow.  There's this bamboo kind of stuff, grayish tan, somewhat brittle.  I break it in half, peel off thin strings of the outer bark, then crack the whole tube open.  Inside is spongy, then sawdust-like.  It's marshmallow colored. I wish there was a way to always know the names of things.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013