Early yesterday morning, these two young bucks were busy noshing on my neighbor’s lawn and shrubs. Suddenly, my neighbor came out her back door with her dachshund, who saw them and barked once. The two boys dove to the bottom of the arroyo that was just a few feet away. They hung out down there …
Author: Reid Farmer
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Eating a well done steak is not unlike eating an alarm clock. – Russell Chatham, Mountain Mallards
Poem
Nero’s Deadline Nero wasn’t troubled when he heard the Delphic Oracle’s prophecy. “Let him beware the age of seventy-three.” He still had time to enjoy himself. He is thirty years old. It’s quite sufficient, the deadline that the god is giving him, for him to think about dangers yet to come. Now to Rome he’ll …
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Because books contained most of the sorts of answers he hoped to find in life, he became attached to them in their every aspect while very young. He loved their look, their feel, their type, their presence singly or in great quantities, as in libraries. His origins were lost in mystery, so nobody could explain …
If You’re Happy and You Know It, Make Gumbo
I ran across this piece in the Washington Post that discussed the ratings of the ten happiest and ten unhappiest cities in the US. It was immediately clear to me that six of the ten happiest cities are in or near Southwestern Louisiana: so the higher the percentage of Cajuns in your population, the happier …
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The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. – Randall Jarrell
Snapshots from Rocky Mountain National Park
We hadn’t been in a while and decided to do a day trip yesterday. I think we need to visit more often.
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“Art is long and critics are the insects of a day.” – Randall Jarrell
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Seen on Colorado Boulevard in Denver, Monday afternoon: Sometimes I wrestle with my demons Sometimes we just snuggle
More Recent Arrivals
This Bullock’s oriole showed up today to grab nectar out of one of the hummingbird feeders. And this lazuli x indigo bunting hybrid showed up later in the day. I put up a post about these hybrids last summer.