Brattleboro

if you're ever in brattleboro

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i hope you'll give me a ring (-:

happy valentine's day

hood museum - seven

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the mystery of history (and herstory, too)

hood museum - six

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a miracle

of angles, curves, and planes

hood museum -five

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irises at dawn

hood museum - four

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last night i had the strangest dream

hood museum - three

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buffalo hide art

what would you draw on yours?

hood museum - two

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hans christian andersen's mother was also a washerwoman...

but i don't think she ever looked this cheerful

the hood museum-one

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let there be light

(i'll be away from my computer for two weeks each month until july.

pre-posts will be the best i can offer in my absence.

my fond regards to you all.)

night falls over peterborough, n.h.

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and the bells in their clock towers ornament the frozen air

only memories

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travel these steps.

the cycle of life

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please enlarge this and start in the center.

work your way 'round and 'round

to fully appreciate salley mavor's brilliant

"self-portrait: a personal history of fashion"

currently on display at the brattleboro museum of art

liquid silver

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paddling through pewter and ice

we cross so many bridges throughout our lives

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carried in the arms of others

or under our own steam.

you know the expression

'we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.'?

today, i came to it.

and it is just another bridge...

february theme day: animals

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a huddle of birds

on a bristly afternoon last week

in peterborough, n.h.

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trees snap their bluesy fingers

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in perfect accompaniment to the tonging bells

is this

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what it looks like

on the surface

of the moon?

(the confluence between the west river and the connecticut river

wearing a cratered cloak of ice)

into the blue...

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how lucky the feet that follow this path

dear grace,

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step right into the icebox that is brattleboro.

you're welcome to enter as often as you'd like.

bone chilling scenes await your daily perusal.

bring any and all of your southern hemisphere friends.

this offer good until late april.

love, brattcat

come gather on the ice

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where dappled fish

entice

and

nothing will suffice

but pickerel on rice.

(fishing shack on the meadows,

brattleboro retreat)

defying gravity,

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suspended in a tangle of boughs,

weighted only by his chainsaw.

kissed by dawn

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blissed by snow

fragile snow blossoms

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unfurl their white petals.

intoxication.

dawn

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in her blue eyeliner and powder

the path

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is strewn with diamonds

(i won't be able to leave comments for awhile

but please know i'm thinking of you even in my silence.)

snowflakes, like little wheels,

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spin merrily across a pane of glass

at st. michael's school

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children gaze out the windows

and dream of

flying.

in the church garden

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sunlight embraces twig and stone

where is the little one

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for whom this chair was intended?

little red berries

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press their cheeks into pillows of snow

a raucous seam of geese

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stitch a veil of darkness

to the winter sky.

safe travels.

like rapunzel's prison

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this tower sits high on a hill,

deep in the winter forest

boots and skis left trails in the fresh snow

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for all who would follow

the veins and capillaries of trees

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form a net

to bear the weight of new snow.

i wonder

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what she's dreaming of.

you don't have to be snow white

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to fall for these apples.

when this little orphaline traveled from vermont to alabama

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he was alone and lost in the world.

his new best friend, genie, of paris and beyond,

has taken him into her home and her heart.

she calls him

oskar

genie reports he is purrfectly content with his new life.

how i spent my new year weekend - 7

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the setting sun dispatched the last wisps of fog,

i found a real path (not the deer paths i'd been following),

and reached home an hour later, muddy, but happy.

do you suppose 2012 will be a year for getting lost in the woods?

how i spent my new year weekend - 6

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i took a path i thought would lead to the road.

instead i found myself in the middle of an unfamiliar cornfield.

i was lost with not even kernels of corn to lead me home.

and the light was beginning to fade.

how i spent my new year weekend - 5

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i flew out with my new camera around my neck

in pursuit of dream-spun light

how i spent my new year weekend - 4

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a new morning dawned, a new year began.

the day was as besotted by fog as the night before had been.

finally, in mid-afternoon, the sun woke from its new year's stupor

how i spent my new year weekend - 3

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we read aloud rumer godden's

tale of ivy and holly

under the spell of the tree

how i spent my new year weekend - 2

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night came quickly,

carrying the fog in its arms.

how i spent my new year weekend - 1

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we dropped baby brattcat and her charming beau

at the hugging bear inn in chester, vermont

and headed back to brattleboro

amelia

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brought her pencils and pens

and her paintbox

and time took a holiday

january theme: photo of the year

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brattleboro in the jaws of irene.

taken august 28th, 2011 from the top of the parking garage,

looking down over the flooded streets.

happy new year, everyone.

may 2012 bring you only good things.

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there's a new year coming

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can you see it approaching?

such a tiny detail

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one sparkling ball, the size of a grapefruit, turns an ordinary house

into a place of wonder.

there are full animals and there are stuffed animals

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and then there is nicole.

never tell an old cat where to sleep.

leaf lace

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woven by a master artist

(a dessicated leaf casts a lacey shadow on western avenue)

sometimes sunlight

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and

pendulous raindrops

create such ephemeral constellations

may your day be filled with music

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the gorgeous turkish kanun

and finally

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the birthing center.

wishing you all

a sweet

holiday.

may all good things come your way.

look how polished

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the administration department's entry was.

my apologies for the quality of these images.

the ailing camera continues to cause problems.

need rehab services?

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how sweet would it be

to be cared for

here...

moving to another section of the gingerbread village

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this one was created by the physician group.

brattleboro memorial hospital challenged each of its departments

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to a gingerbread house competition.

this week i'll be sharing some of the highlights.

today's entry: the cardiology unit

take time to stop

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and nibble the gingerbread

(corner of high and main street, brattleboro)

this jaunty gent

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looked too cool to mingle

but look what happened when he met

yesterday's pup.

happy birthday baby brother

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may your day be one long, sweet cuddle

prickly little afternoon

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all thorny trees and spires

sunlight reaches through the ether

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to stroke the face of this mantlepiece

time magazine's choice for person of the year 2011

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the protestor

why did the chickens cross the road?

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perhaps

to visit the sheep?

ursi lives and works at the christmas tree farm

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isn't he grand?

through the stiff stubble of december

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sheep and chickens

rizzle and scratch,

trying to fill their winter-hungry stomachs.

do you think you would like

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growing christmas trees for a living?

the sun danced with wild abandon

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winking at itself

in a thousand planes

of dimpled glass

happy birthday, dear helaine,

stay kitty stay

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good kitty

(and to think that i saw it on organ street)

this time of year

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we become

mere

shadows

of ourselves

the stuff of dreams

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these exquisite creatures

are the handiwork of supremely talented doll-maker

anna abigail brahms

(thank you all for your illuminating camera advice.

i'll let you know when i make up my mind

and make room in my budget.)

technical help please...but not too technical

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sometimes my camera focuses beautifully

but more and more often it won't.

is it time for a new camera?

i've been using a sony cybershot dsc h20.

it's given me great zoom, great macro, great clarity, & it's not too heavy or bulky.

suggestions for a replacement/upgrade?

the estey organ works

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once hummed on estey street

on a hill above downtown brattleboro

it's beginning to look

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a bit like christmas

december clacks her long bone-fingers

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like polished castanets.

don't tarry, my feathered friends.

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the cold, the snow, the ice

will be descending in a trice.

fill your beaks and hurry on your way.

theme day: action shot

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beware of giant spiders

on the march!

(taken in dunedin, florida shortly before halloween)

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let's warm the cider

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and stir it with a cinnamon stick.

i'll pour two mugs,

one for you, one for me.

and what shall we nibble on while we're sipping?

november unclasps her hair

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she stretches and yawns

in the amber dusk

sweet morning

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with powdered sugar on her lips

40 years

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and still purring...

happy anniversary mr. brattcat

snow lace outside

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curtain lace within

hush little world

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the sun

is settling down

to sleep

hoping your feast doesn't fall flat

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but even if it does,

remember:

a bad feast makes a good story.

happy thanksgiving!

and happy birthday, terry, whose feasts never fall flat.

what for some of us is a storybook setting

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for others is simply "home"

you don't need a weatherman

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to know which way the fish goes

do pigeons engage in

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fowl politics?

and what would you do with these?

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for those of you who are wondering...i don't have a clue

and for those who asked if i made my own cranberry sauce

the answer is i used to,

but my daughters prefer the gelatinous stuff in a can.

go figure.

do you make your own

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cranberry sauce?

so much to be thankful for

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even in november

blues...we're restoring roads and bridges and houses,

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but no one has relieved this tree of the blues snagged during tropical storm irene

when i posted an image of one of my knitted orphalines a while back

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genie, of paris and beyond, fell in love with it.

"may i have one just like it?" genie asked. "i'll pay a handsome price."

hmmm, i thought, something very beautiful could be done with a handsome price...

"sure thing," i told genie.

so while genie went to paris

i selected the yarn, planned the color scheme, picked up the needles

et voila, with a knit, and a purl, and a click, click, click

this jaunty fellow entered the world...

and is now happily residing with genie in alabama.

genie would welcome naming suggestions.

ellie, the acrobat who lives next door in the purple house,

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performed for an audience of neighbors on sunday.

notice the bare feet...the temperature was 40 degrees f.

and it didn't take long for her toes to turn as rosy as her sweater...

but being a professional, she never missed a trick.

while walking down the street today

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a trotting piggy passed my way

even in her scuffed shoes and tattered clothes

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november is a beauty to behold.

for you, dear leda,

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the moon in a basket.

happy birthday,

cherished friend!

have you ever been

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inside the u.n.?

(baby brattcat flew home last night and her chair looks so empty at our diningroom table...we miss you baby brattcat!)

the tangled hair of autumn

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combed by fingers of light

the common sighs with pleasure

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in the early morning light

the snow is almost completely melted and there remains

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an autumn blush on the cheek of november

with mounds of snow in the background, a bouquet of the last summer flowers

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for all of you who have come to visit during my long absence...thank you!

(welcome new followers indo panama, eli, and choppography)