May

Ahh Home. Let me go home.
Home is wherever I'm with you.
Ahh Home. Let me go ho-oh-ome.
Home is wherever I'm with you.


Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Hope

"This wonder we find in hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend.- How many would die did not hope sustain them; how many have died by hoping too much!
Feltham

Woodswalk

Garter Snake camouflaged

"Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood."

Cudworth

On The Grasshopper And Cricket

The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper's—he takes the lead
In summer luxury,—he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.

by John Keats

Red Winged Blackbirds

April Snow

Cedar Path

April

Words, Wide Night

Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
The room is turning slowly away from the moon.

This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that out and say
it is sad? In one of the tenses I singing
an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear.

La lala la. See? I close my eyes and imagine the dark hills I would have to cross
to reach you. For I am in love with you

and this is what it is like or what it is like in words.

Carol Ann Duffy

Red Maples in bloom

Acer rubrum

Star-nosed Mole

Condylura cristata
Tree410

Unfortunately deceased; cause of death: unknown

with jewelweed, aka touch-me-not, seedlings.

Census 2010

Around the beginning of March I received an envelope from the Census. Not the long- awaited and much advertised arrival of the actual census form, though. A letter telling me the actual census form would soon be arriving.

A week or so afterward, the middle of March more or less, I received the actual Census. Basically, the census wants to know who is living at the address: name, age and race (with a separate subsection for Hispanic), on April 1, 2010.

Being somewhat particular about legalese, I filled out the form, not expecting anything to change before April 1. But, I decided to wait until after the first to mail it back, since the whole premise was the status of the household as of April 1.

About a week later,still a week to go before April first, I received a reminder from the census to mail my form back. I continued to wait.

April 1, there was ANOTHER census form in my mailbox, apparently it having been assumed I had lost my first one, which I mailed (since it was now April 1).

One of the other questions the census wanted to know if the property was owned by you...with or without a mortgage or loan, rented, or freeloaded (occupied without payment of rent)?

I answered the question dutifully, imagining after 70-something years have passed and the information becomes public record, one of my descendants learning that I lived here and owned land.

But why does the government really want to know the status of the property?

Maybe to find out how much of the US is actually owned by Americans?...all those defaulted mortgages become bank-owned properties-banks that were bailed out by the US government who owes China over 800 billion dollars..

What do you put up for collateral on a 800 billion dollar loan,anyhow?

Real Big Snapper

The tail alone was between 8 and 12 inches long.

7:15 am

Five Goldens Eagles