Outdoors @ MindSay

Today is my birthday (how thrilling!), so to celebrate I spent the morning raking hay (how thrilling, in an even more sacrastic manner). Anyways, this poem is one that I actually spent more than five minutes on. The last bits are still ragged, but I thought I'd put it up anyways.

 

 

 

Treehouse

 

This room, a room on stilts

A house built for me, now

Stands beneath tree, green

Light filters from branches

Through the Plexiglas of

Its sliding, dirty windows

 

Theses soft, grainy planks

Are suited to the whitening

Paint (upon the walls they

Make), they the connection

Of slanted ceiling and floors

Of pine.  My house of tree

 

Under a pair of cottonwoods,

The guardians of my dreams,

A house that became a home

For one. It holds nights when

I was alone, mornings when

I laughed, and afternoons of

 

Goodbyes. Now my pair of

Knights with their leaves in

The air above wave to me.

They invite and wave on my

Departure simultaneously.

My house, trapped between

 

Sky and ground: Leaf and root

 

So no one hears from me for weeks and the best I come up with is a goofy quiz. I'm such a slug. Well, not entirely. This "new love" thing can be quite all-consuming, eh?! DAMN, I hope the magic never ends!!!

Because I'm too lazy to figure out why I can't log into my image host, I'll post the most recent Sojo nature fare using the Mindsay image post thingee. These are shots of our 2008 Red Winged Hawk brood...one anyway. Mom had this chick out teaching it to hunt and tear apart prey. When I came out with the camera, their bellies were stuffed and I was able to get surprisingly close before mom flew into a high tree. The chick allowed me to get a bit closer. Kendall asked me if I was scared the mother would attack me. I confessed to considering that possibility, but at the moment, it seemed worth the risk to get a good shot! LOL!

The first pic is of mother and chick. The last shot is the chick...big chick, huh?! Enjoy!

my north patio is almost finished.  this is right off the french doors leading to the tiled foyer. It's east of the more formal front door  ( where jim built the decking and I have a small gurgling water pile. Now the patio is  enclosed now just for us. I harvested the moss, jim power washed  the patio surface and we got some new  (very cheap) furniture to make another seating group. friends are coming from Seattle over memorial day and then the first week in June we have great pals from denver coming to see us.

so everything is ready just in time. I just need to trade the green butterfly chairs for the blue and add an unused trellis to the fall the support the faux wisteria. don't laugh. I don't mind fake plants, they never die.  in case you wonder .... the grill is hiiddenon the front porch where it's covered during rain and  just a few steps from the kitchen. Oh my heavens I love this home and city and this life we finally carved from the ashes of misery and depression. Go girl... right?

Here's some more of the pics I promised.  I hope you like them.  I'll post the last few tomorrow.