moon over lights

Our village has a lavish display of lights this year, at the edge, just over the goat path. Tonight the moon is 100 percent full. So...I tried to capture the effect. I didn't know I moved the camera once. The goof turns out best--my little thought for the day. The tall post is to capture Santa's attention as he passes overhead.

Thanksgiving column

Here's my column on Thanksgiving, as it appears in the Mennonite Weekly Review. Photo here is online freebie.
http://www.mennoweekly.org/2011/11/21/when-saints-met-originals/

buggy graffiti: A loves K

A neighbor got married yesterday. In the dark of night this buggy was pushed up against my walnut tree to make a statement. Graffiti scrawled on it proclaimed that A loves K. I guess that says it in a nutshell. One hopes that K also loves A. Or, is the message that A or K ditched the relationship? The preachers had said this and that for over an hour. Is it possible that they missed the essential point and the teenagers had to say it? By dawn's early light, the wash was hung, the bench wagons were being loaded.

fodder's in the bale

"When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock" is the first line of a James Whitcomb Riley poem from America's era between the Civil War and WWI. In Monterey nowadays the fodder's in the bale. What I see today is almost the same as this photo I snapped two years ago.