EARTH ~

"lilacs"
photo © bob arnold

spring 2013

ONCE IN THE SW ~

ALL ALONE ~

all photos © bob arnold

except, from Lionel Rogosin's 1955 documentary film On the Bowery

PEEK-a-BOO ~

photo © bob arnold
"peek-a-boo"

ARCHIVE ~

photo © bob arnold

"candy cigarettes" 

EARTH ~

 

photo © bob arnold

[ from the moleskine ] ~

If I Am Lost & The Shadow Grows Long




Inhabit the house

like a bird



Build a nest

of twigs,



bits of cloth

paper



To be abandoned

in time —



dwelling

for a time


_________________


KIM DORMAN
from gleanings / fragments / february 2013
Houston, Texas

photo © bob arnold

YESTERDAY ~

 

photo © bob arnold

WINDOW ~

in the living room

with me






as the sun warms the bird

it sings

photos © bob arnold

SPHERE ~

photo © bob arnold

BLACK & BLUE ~

Rain will be here in 5 minutes

photos : © bob arnold
sugarloaf

SUMMER CLOUD ~

atop Sugarloaf
Deerfield, MA.
29 July 2012
7:15 pm

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He takes her in his arms
Bright gleams for a second playing
On the shoulder-blades the shoulders and the breasts
Then hidden by a cloud

PAUL ELUARD
trans. SAMUEL BECKETT

OVERHEARD ~

photo : © bob arnold

DAISY DAISY ~

The other day we bicycled every street and byway and side alley and short cut between towns in two side by side western Massachusetts towns and then over its noted bridge of flowers and came to daisy





photo : bob arnold

EARTH ~

We've climbed Sugarloaf Mountain over a half dozen times this spring and summer is ahead! Even with a bum leg for a few weeks, Sweetheart insisted on joining me. We took every trail there is on the easeful mountain, including the steep trail straight up the nose, up and back. Watch your footing on the loose stone when returning. The traffic below barely is ever lost to you but we don't care, neither is two youthful baseball teams and their cheerleaders off to one side of the mountain base. We're in a town where Drums Along the Mohawk roamed. There's a wide plank door in the town where an Indian hatchet once was embedded. I put my hand to the blade mark left in the door once upon a time. Despite a road all the way to the top of the summit this mountain absorbs sounds and disturbance quite well, and the road has a gentle carriage to it. Many like to use this route to climb to the top. We go up the steepest trail, then sometimes use a back woodlot trail that meets the roadway halfway down. This way all routes are made as one. Often we find a marauding raven back there telling us he sees us and do we see him! The photographs are from the top of the mountain looking down and focusing in.

Roam

Question Mark

Pioneer farm

Neighborhood






Funeral Home

After Rain

Spring field

Softwoods Crest

Deerfield

Barn Shine

Connecticut River

A sweet for your hike

photos © bob arnold

EARTH ~

It's time to look back at a photograph from last summer's garden ~

In Vermont, we won't see bare feet again for a month or two

It's 5 below this morning

photo © bob arnold

EARTH ~

Roadside SW




photo © bob arnold