Pumpkin Carving: 2021

 

Childhood favorite, Formative Te

 

The Velveteen Rabbit may be the first story that really taught me something special about the power of literature.

 I recall as a young boy being deeply confused by this story that I loved, for reading it made me both very sad and very happy at the same time.

Bolinas Lagoon: 2014

 

Old Clay

 

The wizard-king.

Dorothy Dunnett Day -- By Zoom?

 

Dorothy Dunnett Day is the second Saturday in November.

Plenty of time to pick up a bottle of her favorite whisky, Highland Park, an Orkney distillation, to toast her memory.

I think the Society will have a Zoom meeting on November 13th.

(Contact me if you'd like details.)

Birnam Wood-Kerne

 

Birnam wood-kerne 

with Icelandic berserker 

(via the Lewis chessmen)

Oxford in the Rain

 

Perfect reading for a rainy day -- and any day, for that matter.

Harriet Vane in Oxford.

Lord Peter Wimsey in the wings . . . .

I'm on page 211 and can't quite remember the plot, happily so.

Feline Dreaming

 

Early this morning, I dreamed that a guest had brought a furry little pet--a rat, a vole, a guinea pig?--to the house and was letting it run about on its own, despite the two resident cats.  Of course, Lady spotted the beastie and began stalking, chasing, and striking it "playfully."  I was intervening to save the creature and "spoil the fun" when I awoke to find Lady sleeping on my pillow, pressed against my thick hair, something she rarely rarely does with me.

Were we sharing a dream? 

Was I dreaming her dream?  

Was I spoiling her fun in her dream too?

Lady (shadow)

 

Puck, in Progress 2011

 

Paddle Workout

 

Richardson Bay 

Lady

 

Paddling

 

Glenfiddach, Dunnett, and Lady

 

One of my favorite novels.

Clay Memories

 

Paddle with a Friend

 

Morning Workout

 

Lady