Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Autumn begins: a time for gathering

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Not just for gathering-in the harvest, but also for gathering-together. This week, the sky has been filled with swirling clouds of starlings...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

Bait and tackle

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Visited Dick's Bait and Tackle on Neighborhood Road yesterday; I needed some new wellies ("rain boots" or "galoshes"...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

I think it was Friday

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Deerie, dearie me

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I guess they are very hungry. This is a baby, spots almost gone now, one of a family with three little ones. I went downstairs early this m...

Tis "mum" season

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Chrysanthe-mum that is. The garden centers are full of them, so is Home Depot and just about anywhere else that might have an excuse for se...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

And then the sun came up

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More and more sky

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Last night started like this... ... and then later... Hard to capture. The sky was a mosaic of light, in negative, the moon dodging behind...
Friday, September 12, 2008

No lipstick on this blog

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So... it is done. I have filed my Citizenship application. I have scraped together the nearly-700$ application and biometrics fee. I have sp...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Soundtrack: The Tourists, "Strange Sky"

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Pretty amazing, no?

Weather or not

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I can't resist watching the sunrise... this was today's. Sunday was beautiful; the beach had changed shape slightly, but it was st...
Sunday, September 07, 2008

Hanna ran away very fast

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That was really it, over before midnight. I was waiting for the storm to get worse, but it didn't. Lucky for us. And better to be safe, ...
Saturday, September 06, 2008

More Hanna

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Lots of wind, lots of rain. No thunder or lightning. Tornado watch a way north of us. The wind is warm. Tropical storm. Somehow I associate ...

Hanna's hemline

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.... and it's like being inside a goldfish bowl. Water just pouring down the windows. And then it stops and breathes for a moment or two...

Waiting for Hanna, part 4

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The rain and wind comes in bands. Just a couple so far.

Waiting for Hanna, part 3

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At 2.30 p.m., thought it would be "fun" to see the beach. Still just breezy, clammy, grey. But Smith Point was closed, two police ...

Waiting for Hanna, part 2

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We're living in a sauna. Condensation runs down the outside of windows, not the inside. Everything is damp. The pets are being weird: in...

Waiting for Hanna, part 1

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8.30 a.m. Misty and wet underfoot. Very light breeze. I can hear the ocean, on the other side of the barrier island. It rained in the night;...

Sunrise earlier in the week

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It's fuzzy, but I liked it. The sun is doing its usual late-summer thing: getting up later and later each day.
Friday, September 05, 2008

Where did the world go?

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Woke up this morning, and the world had disappeared. Everything grey-white. Clammy. Warm. Soggy. Weatherman says it's going to be a beau...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Maggie Palin???

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I spent all weekend (well, moments of the weekend) wondering what it was about Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice-president, tha...