Absolutely love the lighting here. Yum.
Outside, the beeches whisper of Lothlorien, of a cleaner, more wholesome place, a place where I belong. And on I trot.
I'm an artist and writer who lives in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio. With this blog, I hope to show what happens when you make room in your life, every day, for the things that bring you joy. Strange...most of them are free.
Thurs. Feb. 27, 2020, 7 PM: "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at Mt. St. Joseph University Theater, 5701 Delhi Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45233. Doors open 6:30 pm. For info call Colleen McSwiggin (513) 244-4864
Mar. 11-15, 2020: Bird Friendly Backyard workshop and Saving Jemima talk at Joint Conference, N. Am. Bluebird Society/Bluebirds Across Nebraska, Holiday Inn Convention Center, Kearney, NE. Right in the middle of sandhill crane migration! Call (308) 237-5971 for reservations.
Mon. Mar. 23, 2020, 6 PM: "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at Morgan Co. Master Gardeners Event, Twin City Opera House, 15 W. Main St., McConnelsville, OH. Free and open to the public. Call (740) 962-4854 for information.
Sun. Mar. 29, 2020, 3 PM: "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at Sunday With Friends,, Washington Co. Public Library, 205 Oak Hill St. NE, Abingdon, VA 24210. For more information, call (276) 676-6390
Apr. 30-May 2, 2020: Julie Zickefoose at New River Birding Festival, Opossum Creek Retreat, Fayetteville, WV. Friday night keynote: Saving Jemima. Curtis Loew, miracle curdoggie, presiding.
May 7, 2020, 7 pm: "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at Campus Martius Museum, Washington and Third Streets, Marietta, OH. Booksigning after. If you missed the Esbenshade lecture/ People's Bank talk in November 2019, this is your event!
Weds. May 13 2020, 5:30 PM: "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center's event at Essex Meadows, 30 Bokum Rd., Essex, CT 06426 This event is open to the public.
Thurs. May 14 2020, 6 PM: "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at New Haven Bird Club's Annual Banquet, Amarante's Restaurant, 62 Cove St., New Haven, CT 06512. This event is open to the public!
Sat. May 16, 2020: "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" for Bergen Co. Audubon Society at Meadowlands Environment Center, 2 DeKorte Park Plz, Lyndhurst, NJ 07071 Time to be announced. Call (201) 460-1700 for more info.
Sun. May 17, 2020, 2 PM: "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at White Memorial Conservation Center, 80 Whitehall Rd., Litchfield, CT 06759. Call (860) 567-0857 for information.
Tues. May 19, 2020, 7 PM: Good Reads on Earth Author Series, by PRI's Living On Earth with Julie Zickefoose and Saving Jemima at Mass Audubon's Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, 208 South Great Rd., Lincoln MA 01773. Includes audience participation, and will be taped for airing on public radio! Get the book first, read up and call (781) 259-2200 for information.
Thurs. May 21, 2020 6 pm: Julie Zickefoose, "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-luck Jay" at Bigelow Chapel, Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge MA 02138. Call (617) 547-7105 for more info.
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11 comments:
feel like you've just given us your version of leading a tour through DisneyLand.
Raccoon poop! So that's the animal that keeps pooping on the cinderblock border surrounding my compost pile! I had thought it was one of the feral cats that come by from time to time (and that I chase off when I see them, hissing and growling at them. I figure that I should speak to them in their own language. I'm sure it keeps the neighbors talking.) I thought that cats were a bit more private, burying their poop. I'm glad to know that it's the raccoons instead. We had a family of them trooping through during the summer. It was so cute to see the mother followed by her four little ones. They would bathe in our fish pond, sometimes knocking over the fountainhead in their exuberance, but they never bothered the fish. Why should they, when they have a constant source of numminess on the compost pile?
One word comes to mind -- fusty. Gah! I'm not one for dust-covered flotsam jetsam. Creepy. But the light is good, not enough to counter the other for me.
Fascinating. Puzzling. Lovely. And yet I can't help but think your posts also serve as another way to help locate your body when you don't come home one day.
I was just wondering about a poop I saw in the forest the other day. Gray. No hair in it. And perched on top of a rock like a DQ cone. "Go poop on a rock" sounds like something you'd say to someone if you were mean.
What a find! Who'da thought all that crap (uh huh) would make such a lovely picture story!
I love poking around in ruined places, a bit scary. I would have appropriated that blue jar.
Except for the light, worthy of Wyeth, as you noted and the little wren nest, this stuff was rather creepy in feeling. Well, I read lots of mysteries. Nice area for running though.
I love learning things...I also did not know that raccoons like to poop ON things! Now I will know when they visit my yard. I loved the photographs. As someone who LOVES yard sales and junk...and being in my fifties...you can imagine the things I have accumulated too. I live in area that also has some well-known flea markets...will I never learn...probably not. Great post.
Beautiful photos. Finding things someone has left behind or stored in old buildings leaves me feeling melancholic and curious about human nature: Where are those people? What kinds of lives did they have? Where did they go? Or are they still alive and living nearby? What was it like when these buildings were "alive!?" Thanks, Julie. And a six run!! Wohoo!! No Chet photo-bombing--did he stay home? When I first saw the photos of the chair I thought it was Chet in it. But alas, no.
You find the coolest stuff!
I could turn that room with a chair into a man cave. No, really I could!
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