Floating down the stream, ~ Before the deer and calves, ~ Color drifts away.

ancient roles

Unattainable, ~ The moon and the lizard with ~ Puffed throat. Ancient sport.

"Moon, you are getting worse and worse.

Lying around in pretty satin,

your hair fixed all careful like a widow.

I capture this lizard and house it

in my hands. Feel the scratching.

We look at each other between my fingers,

he as Dante and I as the ghost,

the Lost-in-the-Night, the daughter

of faith built on common ground. While you,

old moon, play safe, safe, beautiful and safe."

~Safe and Beautiful by Linda Gregg

the sun, passing winds, and flying clouds

"How can I give right directions
When I am a wanderer myself!
Onward I stroll and ever on
In my own way courting the sun
And fashioning Arcadia
Of passing winds and flying clouds."

~from White Chrysanthemums by Sadakichi Hartmann

my old home in northern California

A field of clover ~ The endless sky of summer ~ Marks of my old home.

"Please stop, Ratty!" pleaded the poor Mole, in anguish of heart. "You don't understand! It's my home, my old home! I've just come across the smell of it, and it's close by here, really quite close. And I must go to it, I must, I must! O, come back, Ratty! Please, please come back!"
~from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

July skies in the Southern Hemisphere

The constellation Sagittarius is best seen from the Southern Hemisphere in July.
Happy star gazing to Delwyn at a hazy moon in Australia, Joe Brazuca at joebrazuca in Brazil, the Sagittarian at More Canterbury Tales in New Zealand (are you in the Southern Hemisphere; some parts of NZ are in the Northern Hemisphere?), and Alessandro Soler at alessandrosoler in Brazil!

From a hurt, tortured, wounded psyche

Sagittarius the centaur lashes out.

We call him harsh, a brute, destroyer,

His arrow perpetually poised to shoot.

Yet something human lies in his breast, and thus

He reigns forever in the pantheon of stars.

This photo was taken on the Big Island of Hawaii. It shows the Milky Way Galaxy, part of which crosses the constellation Sagittarius. The Milky Way stars that lie just above Sagittarius's teapot look like steam rising from the tea.

The brightest stars of Sagittarius comprise a teapot in the lower right portion of the constellation.

Welcome to my studio!

more books, etc.

Religious books.

table easel.

project table.

Celtic lit, drumming, and the hammered dulcimer.

reference books.