Category: General

Maria needs a museum fix; she is hungry for a dose of art. I love going to museums with her. The Williams College Museum in Massachusetts has a beautiful, quiet space for meditation. I’ll be there after a walk around the museum.

We’ll be back this afternoon, except for a good morning hello. I’m taking Sunday off, so I’ll be only book reading and photo taking. More later. We had a great brunch this morning at the local diner with Cindy and Larry Casavant (she is the goat lady, and he is the goat man).

Still life, firewood for the wood stove.

“We are all children of the earth.  We rely on the earth, and the earth relies on us. Whether the earth is beautiful, fresh, free, or arid and parched depends on our way of walking. Please touch the earth with mindfulness, joy, and concentration. The earth will heal you, and you will heal the earth.”   – Thich Nhat Hanh.

Zip ate some fresh salmon skin for breakfast this morning.  He had first dibs on Maria’s gourmet snack trek every morning, luck creatures. The donkeys and sheep got older vegetables, carrots, and egg shells. Zinnia scooped up anything that hit the ground. She does her share of vomiting at night.

I want to take a Fate At Rest photo almost every day; there is something iconic about the way she rests. More are coming. If I ever do a photo show again, it would be photos of Fate at rest. (And I won’t be doing any photo shows, BTW.) But I won’t stop taking pictures of her at rest.

The Imperious Hens have hung out on the back porch for several years, avoiding the sun or the rain. Zip didn’t want them in his favorite spot, so he chased them away. The hens and Zip seem to have reached an understanding, and today, in the rain, Zip was offered hunting in the marsh (he likes rain too), and the hens took back their spot. We’ll see how Zip reacts to this when he returns.

It was nice to see them back.

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