Tag: nature
group name: kindredspirits
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September 23, 2007 02:42 PM EDT --
Sunday morning
Here I sit
Steaming cup of tea
Cats running amok
Before one settles in front of the keyboard
Competing for my attention
House silent of voices from my offspring
A "me" . . . more
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September 30, 2008 06:59 AM EDT --
One of my best efforts, IMO - enjoy! ;-)
Golden Fall has come to Moscow ....
We also call this unique season of year "Babie leto" - our Russian analogue of "Indian . . . more
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June 02, 2008 05:05 AM EDT --
( Warning. This article, much like myself, contains moments of mild profanity .)
I blame the Aussies.
Here I am comfortably sitting down at the end of a hard day, watching television . . . more
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May 07, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
I'm 54 years old. In that time I've walked a lot of roads and gone off down some interesting-looking side paths. This journey we call life has been an interesting trip so far, and I'm of a . . . more
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January 27, 2008 06:57 PM EST --
Today I tackled one of the hikes I found in the Weekend Walks in Rhode Island book I found at Borders on Friday. I convinced my friend Virginia (a fellow ousted exile from Home Depot) to come along. . . . more
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July 12, 2007 10:56 PM EDT --
So, last week on the 4th of July I took you on a tour of the lower trails in the Norman Bird Sanctuary (see the article here). This time we're back and we're going to climb (and that's literal . . . more
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July 17, 2007 08:54 PM EDT --
The Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge was developed on the site of an old Navy shooting range and communications center. When I first wandered out there in the '70s it was still a wasteland of . . . more
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October 04, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
My day off and I head right for my old stomping grounds to shake off the stress of the week. Here are some of the pictures I took on my walk.
In Ballard Park the main path in the northern part of the . . . more
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July 17, 2007 07:12 PM EDT --
I've made a faux pas, a gaffe, a grave error! I've been a victim of my own horticultural hubris! I have (gasp) misidentified plants! No one accused me of this; I accuse myself.
Today during my . . . more
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November 22, 2007 04:27 PM EST --
I went out for a walk down to my favorite hangouts in the south end of Newport this morning, and I discovered that the Beeches have finally changed color. Hooray! Of course, the Maples have been changing . . . more
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January 28, 2008 05:30 PM EST --
We had a nor'easter blow through overnight that left a little snow - an inch or two. I had stuff to do at the computer today, but I decided to take a quick run down to Ballard Park to look at what . . . more
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August 28, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
I live in Newport, RI, and there's an area here that has become my spiritual home. It's where I go to recharge at least once a week, where I lose myself in nature, and where I often take my best . . . more
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January 08, 2008 07:15 PM EST --
I was all set to do laundry today until I heard the weather forecast - mostly sunny and warm, with the high temps approaching 60. so naturally I heard the call of the wild and decided the laundry could . . . more
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March 28, 2007 01:19 AM EDT --
A lonely sentinel
of mortar and stone
a purpose long since served,
stands surrounded
by the rustle of windblown leaves,
forever dead,
across supple blades
of newborn grasses...
both kissed . . . more
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July 31, 2007 10:54 PM EDT --
Today I went off the island (Newport is on an island in Narragansett Bay called Aquidneck Island) to go walk the East Bay Bike Path. This was built on an old abandoned local short rail railroad, and it . . . more
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February 23, 2008 05:38 PM EST --
We had some snow/sleet/freezing rain yesterday, so today I went down to my spiritual home to see what effect was achieved by Mama Gaiea's brush. Unfortunately a lot of people and their dogs had been . . . more
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January 11, 2008 10:25 AM EST --
Today is Randy's Day.......it is his Earthly Birthday if he were still here in this realm. His Spirit was....and is....of a Gentle and Giving Nature. I was once told by one of his co-workers . . . more
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September 24, 2007 02:38 PM EDT --
Leaves loosed their hold in the autumn breeze
Equinox sunrise has come and gone
They've no reason to hang on
One last shaky pirouette-
a folly ending in cold
stilled death
more
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November 21, 2007 05:28 PM EST --
Today I went walking in Miantonomi Park, which is on the north side of the city of Newport, on Hillside Ave. just north of Admiral Kalbfus Blvd. This park is atop Newport's tallest hill, and is topped . . . more
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December 09, 2007 08:01 PM EST --
Miracle of miracles, another Sunday off! It was a chilly and overcast day, and a dead calm one, too. I went walking, and here are the results.
Ballard Park
The birds were avoiding me in the . . . more
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