Entries from October 2008

October 16, 2008

Hair Cut Day, Part 2 — Oops. I Mean Part 3!

From Hair cut day August 2008

At first it was friendly, but it soon became intense….

From Hair cut day August 2008

Had the Monkey’s camera phone maneuvers gone too far this time?

From Hair cut day August 2008

Even when Mad Dawg (I am confident that before I die, he will actually write at least one sentence in his [...]

October 12, 2008

Lips Gone Wild (Hair Cut Day, Part 2)

According to Larry the Cucumber…

From Hair cut day August 2008

USTA is Polish for LIP.

From Hair cut day August 2008

Micah and Jon didn’t seem to be aware of the fact that it also has something to do with transporting senior citizens.

October 9, 2008

An Early Moon Poem

I have a poem on “The Poet” page that refers to this old piece. It’s not at all an example of my best work, but I thought I’d include it as a bit of history and as the missing piece to “Overvision.”

Moon Watcher

They chuckle
softly
because once again
I have called them outside,
away from the deathly
cold light
of their [...]

October 8, 2008

Hair Cut Day, Part One

I’ve been writing mostly about raptors in my first posts on this new blog, so I thought I’d pull a couple of recent posts over from the old “Notes from the Dirty Orange Book,” the blog I am more or less leaving behind on Journalspace. While I’ll keep that open as a sort of portal [...]

October 7, 2008

October Eagle

I haven’t had the chance to get out onto the mountain again since mid September, and autumn is just flying by like a falcon.  I’ve gotten back onto the listserve again. It’s changed a few times since I was on it back in the ninetees. Birdhawk, it’s called now. You can find a link to [...]

October 1, 2008

More Summer Eagles

A flight up memory stream.