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kansas river : winter 2010 : cold

it was a good weekend. even though the weather was not sunny and certainly not as warm as we were led to believe. instead we have had several days of the most beautiful dense FOG. i LOVE fog. i love winter tree branches. but there is nothing like winter tree branches in FOG. so we went to see them. one day we went early to the Baker Wetlands, which was gorgeous and amazing. the ponds frozen, a dull yellow-white ice, everything soft and distant. another day, we walked in the morning to the Secret Pond, which i found last summer. i was afraid to walk around alone then, it was so brushy and i *think* there was a posted sign. but yesterday, i didn’t see a sign and of course the only brush was branches, not the snakey kind, so we explored bravely. my poet was quite surprised that he had always missed this place and i could show it to him! we saw a badger’s hole and many feathers from a red-shafted flicker, who had recently been sacrificed for a dinner. i thought it was something fake at first, because the feathers seemed to be painted with neon orange! then we jumped over the drainage pipes and trudged through knee-high snow and found our way to the still arctic river, walked there for a while. also, we ate good things and watched more movies than i want to admit to. it was shocking. most were on macBook theater, but we also went to see Daybreakers, too! our suburban movie theater in town SUCKS. the matinees are not a bargain, the seats are crummy and it always feels dirty and sticky. from now on we will only go out to the movies in his town, unless we go to Liberty Hall here.

now i am supposed to be doing laundry and working at the artTable all day, but … uh … it’s so cozy sitting and writing and playing pictures!

PS - and BLUEBIRDS! we also saw BLUEBIRDS! what wonder!

kansas river : winter 2010 : picnic, anyone?

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