The Maple Dog

we invented a new food at the 40th annual maple festival in st. albans this afternoon. that is. after we ate all the other pre-exisiting types of food.

here is the pictorial, followed by some other culinary highlights:

this:

plus this:

equals this:

The Maple Dog - Tell Your Friends, It's Fantastic!

these are pickles, they belong there, because as the maple enthusiast on-line next to me remarked, "the sour cuts the sweet and the result is just... perfect!" actually it was not that fantastic.

Neil Young

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Trip to Montreal

Originally uploaded by mearse.

bunch of new photos up at my flickr page after a day of taking pictures and seeing john "ian mckay" vanderslice in montreal.

it was an awesome show, you should see him if he comes close to you... and he probably is judging by his tour schedule.

i am starting to learn about longer exposure times and how to use my camera on the manual setting. fun stuff.

video

Poems about fish....

i am practicing what i "teach"... tonight my students need to write five poems. i told them i would write some too, perhaps about my new fishtank.

here they are:


the lanturne:

watch!
constant
spectacle
calming motion
search

the essence:

platies dive, endlessly
they do thrive, thankfullly

the tanka:

clear waters of april
constantly being filtered
rising and falling
searching for food, interested
in every square inch of rock

the plaeides:

Fishtank

Frantically peaceful fish
falling towards the rocks
fake plastic trees conceal
forlorn golden tetra's
frantic search for food
frenzy at feeding time
fellow neons eat not

and finally the etheree:

there
are two
neons that
remind me of
my childhood when i
would sit and stare for hours
at nothing but the constant
motion of the fake trees swaying
to the pull of the silent filter
now, i sit and watch the same fake plastic trees

New Pets

we got a fish tank and are spending a lot of our time and money on making it make us and the fish happy.

so far it is working. i feel like i am 7 years old.

the platies are the most fun to watch because they are peaceful and go up and down.

the gold tetra is a named vlade because he is not tall, large, serbian and bearded like his namesake. he survived being bullied, like many of our nations youths, and is now a leader in the aquatice community. we deported the bullies, rumsfeld and and cheney.

there are also two neons that roll together.