Sleep on, my child, and I will rock thee,
And I will rock thy cradle, that sweet thy slumber be;
Sleep star, new moon and morning, sleep,
And lady ocean with thy silver fishes, sleep! - greek lullabye

The moon wanted me to take it’s picture this morning. So I stumbled around in the dark trying to find the camera, then trying to find the lens, until I had them together in one spot. Then I barreled outside into a wall of silent frozen dawn, my old slippers hitting the snow with a crunch that broke the air like artillery fire. I found a spot between silos and phone wires where I could get a clear view of the morning moon’s false modest pose. The cold air seemed to be dropping upon me from deep space as it slowly soaked through my clothes causing me to shake until I could no longer hold the camera still. In the end I got this one really average picture of the moon. But, he asked me to take it and I always listen to the moon.Yesterday while driving up to the Wisconsin Dells I was struck by the irony of beer companies putting up giant billboards that block your view of the forest with images on them depicting. . . the forest. Well, I suppose. After all the real forest doesn’t have a miller logo tactfully faded and coordinated into it’s menagerie of colored leaves.

So did you see this picture of Justine C getting rolled?? It fills me with gratification to no end when I get to see (or not see) paddlers of her caliber getting dumped! Be sure you enlarge it to get the full joy. . . oh, wait, I mean full effect. What was I saying??

I’ve been working with a couple other Wisconsin paddlers to develop a new feature for this site that for the moment I’m calling Project X. I imagine we’ll roll out Project X with just a small amount of information at first, but in time we hope it will go from the current little “projectx” to the full blown concept “PROJECT X”. I hear that Milwaukee paddle coach Dick Silberman, after being allowed a glimpse at project x was overcome with MTV generation-like complacency and exclaimed “this is adequate and easy to read”. Such excitement is hard to contain.

Wenley beat me to the punch again with a post about a great Scottish photo gallery. But I don’t mind. He’s using a paddle-leash now and will get his in the end!!

And speaking of (there goes that phrase again) blogs, if you’ve not checked out “KAJAKSPORT OP GROOT WATER“, now is the time to do so. Hans has been posting in English lately which is a real gift to the rest of us poor slobs who did not learn multiple languages as children. Besides just being an interesting read, he has a great shot of Axel Schoevers and Nico Middelkoop showing off their sculling prowess, and some great navigation toys that would be the envy of Mr. Navigation himself, aka., Sir John Browning.

I’ve been finding Saturday is a good day to catch up on all the little tid-bits I never got to over the week. I hope someone still finds it. Not a lot of people stop by here on weekends after all. Heck, I wouldn’t either if the water wasn’t frozen!

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