ski the rail trail

February 4th, 2010



We skiied on the rail trail – gray line above the road marked on this map.


View Rail Trail area outside Cards Crossing in a larger map




blair’s words

January 3rd, 2010



(Found Object)

Blair’s words – May 1990 – 22 months

gobish garbage
googower screwdriver
boop burp
wa wa I want a
wa wa boule I want a ball
wa wa baal I want a bottle
wa wa awa I want an apple
wa wa jit I want juice
manch-care mask – I’m scared
ha-doon-dare     How ya doin’ there?
doo-wock door locked
moo-shout motorcycle
ha-caw-oo helicopter
didu tail
goo squirrel
pundy tummy
ne-me-shood ?



“the most elegant present I could get”

December 1st, 2009



                                              Everything
Turns into writing a name for a day
                                                  Someone
is having a birthday and someone is getting
married and someone is telling a joke

from Sonnet LXXXVIII “A Final Sonnet” Ted Berrigan




next summer’s ride

November 30th, 2009



down east sunrise trail

The Calais Branch Rail Corridor Rehabilitation and Multi-Use Trail Project Construction of the Down East Sunrise Trail is an interagency effort that will rehabilitate and preserve 85 miles of rail corridor for future rail use as well as provide a wide, compact gravel base, multi-use trail for snowmobilers, ATV-ers, pedestrians, bicyclists, cross country skiers, equestrians and many other outdoor enthusiasts.

As of September 4th, 2009, 30 miles are now open for use from Machias, East to Ayers Junction. The construction phase is now complete. Enjoy the trail and please remember it is multi-use; motorized users must yield to non-motorized and please demonstrate courtesy and ethics to all trail users as well as abutting landowners.

Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands, Down East Sunrise Trail




sunday in maine

November 29th, 2009



stream along bike trail outside Cards Crossing, Franklin
stream crossed walking on bike trail outside Card’s Crossing, Franklin

birches in the Maine woods
birches in the Maine woods

blueberry barrens
blueberry barrens in fall color

clam or worm diggers
clam or worm diggers’ tracks on the mud flats, Taunton Bay

moonrise
moonrise, sunset on the beach, Hancock Point

moon in Maine, November 29
moon in Maine, November 29

shoreline at sunset, Hancock Point
shoreline at sunset, Hancock Point

Mt Desert from Hancock Point
Mount Desert Island from Hancock Point

Late November sunset, Hancock Point
Late November sunset, Hancock Point




celery farm

November 15th, 2009



Looking for places to walk in “nature” near my workplace in Bergen County NJ.

Found this: Celery Farm




zuihitsu

November 11th, 2009



a genre of Japanese literature consisting of loosely connected personal essays and fragmented ideas that typically respond to the author’s surroundings. The name is derived from two Kanjis meaning “to follow” and “brush”, and thus works of the genre should be considered not as traditionally planned literary pieces but rather as casual or random jottings down of thought by their authors. (wikipedia, zuihitsu)

Example: Hōjōki, An Account of My Hut

Also, The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon, Makura no soshi

Study: Formless in Form: Kenko, Tsurezuregusa and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose, by Linda Chance