Posts Tagged ‘home’

The falling leaves drift by the window
The autumn leaves of red and gold….
I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sunburned hands, I used to hold
– jacques prévert

Sorry for disappearing.  Well, I’ve not actually disappeared, in fact I was probably walking along the shores of this lost little lake.  Maybe I was taking pictures of a caged lion or hiking through the dark woods of my local park under the glow of a harvest moon.  Maybe I was nursing what seems to be a little stress fracture on my foot , while watching the local team get taken to school.  Maybe I was working on a website.  My work list recently has been growing exponentially. Maybe I was sitting right here being amazed by how well my move from Windows XP to Windows 7 actually was going. The techies will appreciate that most all of my shareware, emulators, and other old or odd software worked.  Quickbooks 2000 didn’t… But whatever I’ve been doing, I’ve not been kayaking recently.  That will change of course.  In life we wear many costumes.  The difference between love & obsession is in the pauses we take.  For the moment I’ve simply paused to watch the earth slide into the oncoming deep freeze from the vantage point of dry shoes.

Lots of trees create a shaded path

Adventures large or small are always similar in one aspect… they take us away from home. For some of us that means lots of things left undone waiting for that perfect “home and garden” day which will never come. A perfect gardening day is after all, a perfect paddling day as well! Well, yesterday I decided to get stuck into a job I was dreading; fixing a blasted corner garden that had been devastated by broad leaf sprays. (A hazard of proximity to a farm).

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