One More

The last known apple of the year. Here's to the many unknown ones.

Moose River, New York, August 23, 2019.

Outtakes From Your Dream

Fungi trying to hop from the old tipped-over splitting log to...?

Moose River, New York. August 25, 2019.

Someone Else In The Settlement (This Might Lead Somewhere)

A caterpillar strangely both like and unlike a tomato worm checks out wood a million miles away from a tomato. Moose River, New York, August 24, 2019.

(The story moves on and even though I am blasting Boz Scaggs and feeling beat down it STILL has the potential to improve or not suck or get it right or something. Let's all hang in there.)

Hanging In The Settlement

Monarch caterpillar hangs beneath a wheelbarrow handle. Moose River, New York, August 24, 2019.

Cellar Door

Moose River, New York, June 1, 2019.

Cardy And The Card

THURMAN LEE MUNSON

CAPTAIN OF THE NEW YORK YANKEES

1976-1979

So says the headstone of a man gone forty years today.

My great aunt bought this card for me a few months before she, high up among the kindest and most decent people I've known, died in as awful and undeserved a way as I can imagine, a lingering torture that didn't seem like any god could've ordered it.

And so, as this cardboard leans against other paper products in a small room in the North Country of New York, I must offer this:

CARMEEN REYNOLDS BEHAGE
NO NICER PERSON EVER WALKED THE EARTH
1906-1982

The Clear-eyed Daredevil

Lilo on one of her diversions from the trail. Moose River, New York, September 26, 2015.

Dreams We Dream