Archive for April, 2013
Mossy Phlox on the Rocks
Posted in Uncategorized on 29 April, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Grape leaves unfurling
Posted in Uncategorized on 23 April, 2013| 1 Comment »
What to keep
Posted in Backstory, My brain, tactless observations, tagged alternatives, backlighting, choices, cloud storage, doing all the things, grading, stalling for time, tact on 22 April, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I suppose that in an age of cloud drives and cheap terabytes, I shouldn’t be bothered with this, but I am trying to sort out what can be deleted from my laptop.
This may be one of those tasks that surface from the swirl of Things To Be Done when other Things are less attractive or too fraught — rather the way “testing all the pens” or “neatening the desk” became substitutes for grading, as the weather got better and the spring semester stumbled to a close.
Late April. Grading. Sending students on their way.
Yeah, no. They get to do that on their own now. And whatever grades they earn, I don’t, for the moment, have to argue with them about.
As I was saying… Things.
I might be thinking of grading because I was back at one of my old campuses yesterday, and drove near several others…. or it might be that, as with grading, my mind and mouth are full of tactless, truthful things I’d like to say, and yet know with my heart and well-worn common sense aren’t productive things to say…
Moving on then, to the Things that I might remove, to make way for other, more useful Things: Do I need that collection of business reports? Do I need that stack of syllabi, or that bundle of articles for impressing people who I no longer need to impress? It’s all virtual, it doesn’t take up “space” in the office, but am I really ready to burn it to CD or DVD, or punt it to a cloud I don’t entirely trust? Make room, make way, for …..
I don’t know. I’m not even sure what I’m making room for. Something. Something better than what I’ve got now.
Maybe making room is some strange sort of bait — saying that there’s room at a metaphoric inn, hoping something special will arrive, looking for just that bit of space to get started….
A moment with Ezra Pound
Posted in Uncategorized on 19 April, 2013| Leave a Comment »
An embarrassment of mantis
Posted in Gardening, tagged fine young cannibals, plethora, praying mantids, praying mantis egg cases, praying mantises on 18 April, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I sent these to other gardeners, to spread the genes around and to reduce cannibalism. We’ll see if the cases that I kept are enough to ensure giant green eating machines in my yard this summer!
Assorted other booms
Posted in Uncategorized on 9 April, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Replacing Winter Interest with Spring
Posted in Gardening, tagged asters, Brick edging, garden maintenance, hope springs eternal, old leaves, spring cleaning on 6 April, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Our last frost date is some time in May, but it’s still time to trim back the aster canes, brush away the dead leaves of 2012, and see what’s coming up.
Friday evening
Posted in Art and Craft, Food, tactless observations, tagged adult beverages, Art in the age of mechanical reproduction, designer hooch, drama lighting, Friday, goes with sushi, ice, sadly cannot improve television offerings on 5 April, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Ice
Splash of Heering Cherry
Shot of Sage
Ginger beer
Water to to taste
Drama lighting
Boom!
Posted in Uncategorized on 5 April, 2013| 1 Comment »
Copter copter
Posted in CopterCopter on 4 April, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Oh, we haven’t done this for a while…
Wouldn’t it be fun if a copter hovering amid the power line could play music?
Rethorykal Questions 