Mosquito is out,
it’s the end of the day;
she’s humming and hunting
her evening away.
Who knows why such hunger
arrives on such wings
at sundown? I guess
it’s the nature of things.
— N. M. Boedecker, Midsummer Night Itch
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See you Tuesday!
From Child’s Garden of Verses
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
Still going past me in the street.And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Bed In Summer
Note: Wilde Roast has moved. They are now in Riverplace (St. Anthony Main) in Picasa’s old space, a couple doors East of Kikugawa. Most places validate parking if you use the ramp immediately to the North (2nd and Bank). I figure we’ll try the new location once to see how it goes and wing it from there. I was down the road at the Aster Cafe Saturday Night and validated parking only cost me $1.
See you on the 14th!
The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You’re one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you’re two months back in the middle of March.
— Robert Frost
Directions are here Google Maps if anyone needs them.
Wasn’t paying attention this month, but the 1st was the first Tuesday, which makes tomorrow (the 8th) the second Tuesday and time for Geek Gather again!
I should really just do scheduled posts for a year or two into the future. That would help prevent some of this last minute stuff.
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.— "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
See you Tuesday!
“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
— Emily Dickinson
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O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow.
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know.
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away.
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
Slow, slow!
For the grapes’ sake, if the were all,
Whose elaves already are burnt with frost,
Whose clustered fruit must else be lost–
For the grapes’ sake along the all.
— Robert Frost
See you Tuesday!
Nothing like waiting until the last minute. It’s actually the 2nd Tuesday of the month _TODAY_. That means it’s Geek Gather time again. TONIGHT.
Directions are here Google Maps if anyone needs them.
I’ll (Michael) be there, in case anyone can come by.
Sun wearing pink hat
Dances as summer echoes
Hearts rejoice in song
— Dorothy Alves Holmes
See you Tuesday!
Updated: to correct the date.
A bit of last minute notice this month. The holiday and a busy week at work sort of worked against me.
Directions are here Google Maps if anyone needs them.
See you Tuesday!