Monday, August 24, 2009

blueberries






































Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York,1957 by Mary Oliver
Once, in summer
in the blueberries,
I fell asleep, and woke
when a deer stumbled against me.

I guess
she was so busy with her own happiness
she had grown careless
and was just wandering along

listening
to the wind as she leaned down
to lip up the sweetness.
So, there we were

with nothing between us
but a few leaves, and wind’s
glossy voice
shouting instructions.

The deer
backed away finally
and flung up her white tail
and went floating off toward the trees -

but the moment she did that
was so wide and so deep
it has lasted to this day;
I have only to think of her -

the flower of her amazement
and the stalled breath of her curiosity,
and even the damp touch of her solicitude
before she took flight -

to be absent again from this world
and alive, again, in another
for thirty years
sleepy and amazed,

rising out of the rough weeds
listening and looking.
Beautiful girl,
where are you?

Saturday, August 22, 2009

battening down the hatches...

Wednesday, August 19, 2009






Friday, August 14, 2009

celebrating woodstock in the backyard this eve...

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Newman helps with a little harvesting this Thursday eve...
















Wednesday, August 12, 2009

























































































Newman outside my office at MUN



Photos taken by Mandy Cook...

Saturday, August 08, 2009




Thursday, August 06, 2009

blueberries, a new swimming hole, Flatrock wharf and whales...