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Category Archives: Field Notes
Graduation Poem 2009
True hope is swift, and flies with Swallow’s wings – Act 5, Richard III, Shakespeare A speck of red, a patch of blue, tails deeply forked, a flight of swallows ride low over the Delaware, rising and falling in sweeping … Continue reading
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Along The Beaten Path 2007
In Route to Providence, Rhode Island by way of HWY 81 and the Delaware Water Gap on Memorial Day Weekend Thinking to avoid beach traffic, we chose the longer route – imagining the quiet pace of SNP in the early … Continue reading
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Off Season 2005
Monarch Butterfly, originally uploaded by gloperflicker. Off Season No lines for the shuttle No reservation needed For covered picnic booths No one to scare the birds away Few Monarch butterflies Stable flies instead George Loper This photograph of a Monarch … Continue reading
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Light Plays Upon My Stairway Railing 2009
Winter Concerto, originally uploaded by gloperflicker. Light plays Upon my stairway railing, Marking time Upon the kitchen floor, Arranging shadows, Like some ancient Musical score. Outside, trees Shimmy and sway, Blocking my view Across the woods. Branches crack And crash … Continue reading
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Flying and Falling Both Make Me Giddy 2008
Wild Sunflowers, originally uploaded by gloperflicker. In this water color, I tried to capture the luminescence of Wild Sunflowers found on Skyline Drive. My first notion was to fill the frame with overlapping petals of the same shape and size. … Continue reading
Omage to Henri 2008
Wild Sunflowers, originally uploaded by gloperflicker. On my way to Big Meadows to pick wild blueberries, I passed a riotous patch of sunflowers, mixed with virgin’s bower. Unprepared for the translucent blast of pale yellow against a jungle of Henri … Continue reading
Natural Pleasures 2008
Striking out on a clean spring morning along city streets, traipsing through neighbors yards, catching horned toads and lightening bugs at twilight, walking around late into a warm summer’s night, looking up into a sky satiated with stars, climbing up … Continue reading
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Passport to No-where 2008
Passport to No-where, originally uploaded by gloperflicker.. In American culture, the impulse to find one’s true self in the wilderness stretches backward from John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway to Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper and beyond. The desire to … Continue reading
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Shattered Vision, Waking Dreams 2008
Grand Tetons, originally uploaded by gloperflicker. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. Theodore Roethke, The Waking, 1953 Have you … Continue reading
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Trip to the Tetons
The motel room was dimly lit by a blinking neon vacancy sign on the roof over the entrance just outside my window. Wakefulness had long overstayed its welcome. Oh, the day began well enough. We left our previous destination at … Continue reading
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