Mountain Colors from the Loop

There's some yellow in those mountains. Good color this year.

Eclipse

Big lunar eclipse this evening- stories, bonfire and eats. We had a good time, and Tennessee made it more an adventure by showing up, as well.

Wandering the Hills

Ianto's been wandering the hills looking for lizzards, fish, leaves, and butterflies, and he found at least one of them. Determined little man, he is.

Roads and Surroundings

It's looking like the road construction between Pigeon Hollow and Ephraim will be wrapping up soon, but I've tried to take advantage of the delays as much as possible. It's somewhat forced, but turning off the engine and just looking around on the road usually reserved for flying mindlessly onward is an act of deliberate hope and mindful, evaporative subversion, I reckon.

Huzzah! Some More Weird Poetry!

Each a Tree

We are each a tree in the beside a great field-

we attract are own champions 

as we also draw our own ruin.

Booming savages brimming with self,

squinty-eyed imperials of what we recognize 

from the far side of a thirsty heart.

In this parched and furrowed estate, 

how long will these tender leaves remain aloft?

Having travelled here from afar,

and depending on legends affirmed

without much perspective on distances 

between mileposts and synapses;

one way or the other, each floorboard lain beside another is a miracle of science 

and of some ancient birthright unearned.

And this is life’s keystone perched high overhead

made of chalk, under whatever rain falls, and forgotten 

by those whose vision is perpetually probing for crude.

And such is the dream of cooled watermelon and shade trees,

summer girls with their bobbed hair pinned back

and long swims in the glade-

These things don’t  keep, but the flavors last

as evenings in front of the fire 

and firefly walks beside languid rivers, 

if only in mentioning.

or remembering our progenitors 

as trees beside great, furrowed fields 

and in hope of champions or recovering from ruin.

Final Watermelon?

With what will likely be the last watermelon of the season, Hyrum created an impromptu piece of art and divied it out to all willing to partake. It's been a good watermelon year, plus, with some good observation and advice, we have hopes of next year growing some of our own larger than a softball.

Horseshoe

The skies in the morning are changing over to fall. It's only the fifteenth, and changes are moving along quickly...

Corn

One thing's for sure- we love beans and corn around here. Good harvest to you all!

Labor Day Activities

A pretty darned good day to end the 'official summer season' with.

State of the Nation, this Labor day.

Bernie Sanders' campaign weighs in on the way things are these days.

Labor Day 2015!

Who will lead us out of the current 'Gilded Age'?
Happy Labor Day, all.

Burial of Cabin Electrics

 

Finishing the underground portion of the electrification project, finally. Now to find an electrician to do the tricky parts so I don't blow us all up. Or make the inspector cross.