At six a.m. Saturday, I was sipping coffee in a deck chair above a sea oat-covered Florida sand dune, staring into the Atlantic ocean. The sun, already shining on Helen and Darren, lit lingering rainclouds from below to the color of smashed plum. The waves rolled and a good breeze pushed back the tops of …
Month: July 2007
Nanny State
Today’s Denver Post tells us that in the People’s Republic of Boulder it is illegal to attach a rope swing to a tree without the permission of the City Manager. When I last lived there 25 years ago we used to say Boulder was four square miles surrounded by reality.
House of Rain
Earlier this week I caught an interview on NPR with Colorado author Craig Childs on the subject of his recent book on the prehistoric Southwest, House of Rain. I read it back in February and really enjoyed it. I worked in the Southwest while in graduate school, but haven’t worked in that part of the …
Another Prairie Ramble
Just a few pictures from a stroll the dogs and I took last Sunday in the Hidden Mesa Open Space. This ruined windmill and tank were along the way. I haven’t found any bats under overpasses here yet, but saw lots of swallow nests under this one. I was able to catch this butterfly grabbing …
Merle’s Door
Last night Connie and I attended a reading and booksigning by Ted Kerasote for his new book Merle’s Door: Lessons From a Freethinking Dog at the Tattered Cover Bookstore at LoDo (Lower Downtown). Matt, of course, reviewed this book in a post a couple of weeks ago that elicited lots of discussion. I picked up …
Well, Dang…
I feel like I’m 5.4 Random Things in debt! But this is fun. I’m learning things about my blog partners I didn’t know. To keep the chain letter going, I’ll finish my job. 1) We just had our kitchen remodeled. It’s much nicer than it was, with a new tile back splash, granite counter tops …
Reid’s Eight
Tagged by Patrick! Thanks for the honor, I think. Rebecca got tagged, too, and calls this Crazy 8s, which seems about right. I appreciate Matt staking out the position that we only are obligated for 2.6 items each, but I’ll go the full monty. I’ll take Steve’s course of making two of them about my …
Eight Random Facts About Steve
Steve here. I had dreaded being tagged with this meme and was ducking Dr Hypercube when Patrick came in on my blind side. But it turns out that when I brainstormed it with Libby I had more than “2.6”. So: 1) I am the oldest of nine children. The last two (twins) were born after …
Dillard / Macdonald
Dillard / Macdonald One of the books in my “pile” is For The Time Being by Annie Dillard, a writer I’ve come to think of as a soul mate to Helen Macdonald, but without any better justification than this imprecise observation: Most of us connect words and ideas with the standard tools. We use stout, …
Eight (count ’em, 8)
Eight (count ’em, 8) Some quirk of Blogger prevents me from putting a title to this post in the proper place. But you get the picture. Patrick has graciously infected us with another blog-cootie–a blootie, if you will—called Eight Random Things. The rules of this meme: Explain the rules; name eight random things about yourself; …