The Fifteenth House

fruity duty

2009-10-30T08:11:00.003-03:00

Fun with Fruit (early stage, oil pastel plus warp and digital watercolour)Handfuls of rotted globs from gutters,remake the couch pour kibble break limbs fill with rainwater freezer dishes clothes checks boots notebook gas soup labels tea coffee pretzels

all see, all draw, be, am

2009-10-28T04:29:00.006-03:00

Flaxseed toast rolled up morning glory strings, planted lamb's ears runners.Glass storm doors, water runs out the hose, onions from the yard into the tabouli, fresh bite of tomato, parsley, olive, lemon juice.Stacking wood, pile it high, make it tall, little mice run, stop, look up at me, and a Carolina wren calls.Gooey oak wood mushrooms, transplanted asters ad infinitum, two four six eight

open the toy box & dump them all on the floor

2009-10-22T05:21:00.002-03:00

Create your own Easter Egg at dumpr.net"What made my dreams so hollowI was standing at the depotWith a steeple full of swallowsThat could never ring the bellOh I've come ten thousand miles awayAnd I ain't got one thing to showMust've been a trainTook me away from hereBut a train can't bring me home"http://www.tomwaits.com/songs/#/songs/song/28/Train_Song/"And when the whistle blows I gotta go

Mona Lisa Mosaic Mural Unveiled

2009-10-19T08:42:00.008-03:00

Mona Mosaic at Niles Mall Originally uploaded by stormbirdstudio my photo album on FLICKR They say several hundred folks came out for the unveiling of the mosaic mural of approximately 70 individual panels depicting one large Mona Lisa - representing artistic views of the community. Each panel is a creation of local individual artists. The huge canvas will hang indefinitely in the

twist of colour

2009-10-13T04:39:00.003-03:00

Collecting firewood, cat dashing madly across the yards; pumpkin lights are up through out the village and coloured leaves cover the trails in the woods.

northern state of mind

2009-10-12T04:09:00.001-03:00

Rolling with a cattle truck through dark Indiana swales and valeswondering what if anything separates us from the living things riding aheadEarlier: floating high above the flowing river in the second story dark on a bed of air, the amber light of the street sweeper flashing four times on the wallCooking zucchini grown in Ohio, closing the storm windows, the wallpaper smells like my life in 1965.

Grey Islands journal

2009-10-11T05:10:00.002-03:00

working on how to present pages, work in progressJuly and August 2000 -- using an old ledger frfom the 50's as we wandered Islands of Newfoundland

dark under the trees

2009-09-28T07:09:00.008-03:00

Listening to Vietnam veterans recalling how they let their minds be trained to dehumanize the enemy, being the only way they themselves could survivecat snug in a warm sweater nestleaves wet with rainA man writes a poem about a too early snow in Buffalo, and the leaves are still on the trees, these young men going off to war.Walking in the dim woods thinking of another young man, 38 sounding 15,

twit snip dip

2009-09-24T01:37:00.004-03:00

Electrically distracted by combining Snipping Tool with Facebook apps. like Graffiti painter and Twitter --- leading to being distracted by Twitdrawor was it DrawingTwit...?

an empty drawer

2009-09-16T01:34:00.001-03:00

Car full of smoke, burning the bones, sulfur rising, ashes on the meadow, hawk in the sky rising and falling on the murmur of voices in the shadows, around the corner out of sight, footsteps of a horse... unused garden pots.Sparrows, always the sparrows and when I remember, the long line of arborvitae.

king fish jump

2009-09-09T01:05:00.005-03:00

Fish jump, kingfisher shouts and flies upriver, downriver, it's low and cardinal blooms flow red along the shore, along with white boneset and nymphs wildly mating covering the wet rocks.Swamp sunflowers, elderberries, partridgeberries, joe-pyeweed - green ferns against dark of where the door would be.Leaves are turning and turkeys run through the meadow and along the road.Cupboard doors open and

Lettuce eat us

2009-09-08T22:14:00.007-03:00

Washing black dirt off the lettuce wondering, well, if the lettuce takes up dirt to make foodlettuce, why can't we just eat dirt? Why don't we skip the frivolous food step and get right down to the mineraly dirt? The lettuce is a transformer carbon machine making dirt edible for us (and H2O and CO2 and sunenergy). ( photosynthesis ) And on the other hand, lettuce can't eat us until we compost

uzz uzz

2009-09-07T04:12:00.002-03:00

brown tree-bean buzz, cat fuzz, and she was...floating over the neighborhood.

hot old age bank

2009-09-06T03:24:00.003-03:00

unsleep. trucks and banks. age old age. whole wheat and the death-penalty. hot-eyed coffee in a huge room empty and full of dead. koi carp and yellow lotus in the pool and iron cranes can't prance. blowup house made of colour and children fly. flames in the yard, sweet sticky goo -- a Jupiter-rise and wake the train, wrap us in the speed of noise and pages of books.O sweet paper! guilty of art

kitchen mind

2009-09-05T04:06:00.003-03:00

Faces stare out a newspaper, handwritten words scrawled on paper.Molecules in the steel tea kettle mingling with mineto become the company mansoup in a cup, wooden pencil,swallow your pride and your conscience, tooall those yearswooden table, hand-thrown clay pot from Janice's fingers;Janice comes for lunch. We can't get the pickles out of the jar...paper envelope, pitcher of wateryou can never

golden brown perfume

2009-09-01T15:50:00.003-03:00

sounds of distant explosions, ah we're in the Valley...The Bees, Ted and Gasoline along with Billy the Dog and sweet rotting odor of apples on the road.Flocks of sparrows, flocks of goldfinches, grapes crawl growing behind the rectory...collecting cleome* seeds, discovering goldenrod has a perfume - never woulda thunk it - we have forty light bulbs in the house.* "Cleome is a genus of flowering

cocoa-cold

2009-08-31T00:50:00.004-03:00

A cocoa-cold morning, avocado trees shivering, gathering wood, picking up the pineapple plant.oh my the death of Clippie, the MS paperclip listen here at: "Eulogy For a MS Mascot

dill seed

2009-08-30T05:34:00.005-03:00

goldenrod in the breeze, squirrel buries an acorn, cat snoozes past noon and then looks at maps.Pop-sickles, goldfinches, cardinals, walking dogs. Gathering dozen aluminum post office-ward -- and not all of them beer!-- because vehicles steered by kettles of beer veering down the road queer gives us the willies eerie.Barker filling the air from first competition at our greatest little secret of

So

2009-08-26T04:03:00.003-03:00

back to covers and memorials all death all a few feet away within arm's reach, within a breath not took.Watching in awe a spider weave it's gossamer web on our clothesline,tacking silvery filament to & fro guiding it just so with a back leg, running & spewing so fine a thread: I can't spin silk out my butt can u? And the spider has spots on its legs like the one Big Daddy Rock sent dancing around

Igotanenvelope

2009-08-16T19:31:00.000-03:00

Igotanenvelope is a continuous art project where people leave empty self-addressed stamped envelopes in public places to be picked up and filled by others, who then send them backIgotanenvelopeI have to do this!

putting together Mona in the mall

2009-08-16T18:13:00.010-03:00

CAPF is assembling the 70 individual panels for 14’x 20’ mosaic mural which will then depict one large image (The Mona Lisa)at the Eastwood Mall in Niles which has offered to host the project this fall/winter of 2009.My piece intended to draw on our interest in astronomy, the fate of the Valley's steel industry, rides in a friend's plane over the beautiful Trumbull county landscapes, and

papers and poetry: too many tons

2009-08-16T16:09:00.003-03:00

Glad to hear my habit of being determined to read all of the Sunday NYTimes despite how far behind we get -- which leads to stacks of said newspapers -- is shared by GK:this section of script starts with the New York Times song praising newspapers, followed by the tale of the barges of 80 tons of poetry going down the Ohio River near Cincinnati: (original broadcast June 13, 2009.)/*

salty tube sand?

2009-08-13T22:09:00.004-03:00

Does anyone know if there is salt added to that "tube sand" that we put in the back of pick-up trucks to add ballast so one can steer on ice and snow? I thought I could mix all this sand from these broken tubes into the Ohio cement-like clay soil to break it up a bit.I did dump some around our prickly pear cactuses thinking they surely wouldn't object, and the next year they didn't do so well.(

A scene in a steel mill, Republic Steel, Youngstown, Ohio

2009-04-05T21:51:00.002-03:00

A scene in a steel mill, Republic Steel, Youngstown, Ohio. Molten iron is blown in an Eastern Bessemer converter to change it to steel for war essentials (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.A scene in a steel mill, Republic Steel, Youngstown, Ohio. Molten iron is blown in an Eastern Bessemer converter to change it to steel for war essentials (LOC)Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer

interior steel mill

2009-04-05T21:48:00.001-03:00

IMG_0720, originally uploaded by f0rcylracer.I missed the glory of steel production in the Mahoning Valley and am rapidly catching up via some great portfolios on FLICKR.com this photo by f0rcylracer being one of them-- see: