tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8793307539806155340..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The ChallengeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1288381980257386792012-08-04T09:05:05.920-07:002012-08-04T09:05:05.920-07:00Thank you, Shawna.
Ravens bring out the best i...Thank you, Shawna. <br /><br />Ravens bring out the best in ghosts.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43175685964467415672012-07-31T11:52:35.606-07:002012-07-31T11:52:35.606-07:00Oh, I love these! Thank you for postingOh, I love these! Thank you for postingghost girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13896624901302720397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18189933800150223202011-06-22T06:51:07.984-07:002011-06-22T06:51:07.984-07:00Michael, Lucy, Curtis, Stephen, good to be watchin...Michael, Lucy, Curtis, Stephen, good to be watching the life of the skies with you.<br /><br />The Common Raven is an incredibly adaptable and beautiful bird with remarkable tenacity and an unfair reputation for being <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/three-ravens.html" rel="nofollow">an ill omen</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90020828950844946872011-06-22T06:29:06.627-07:002011-06-22T06:29:06.627-07:00Tom,
"Ah, me!" indeed! "How long ...Tom,<br /><br />"Ah, me!" indeed! "How long can it last?" not long at all -- the fog began to materialize in front of the ridge even before it was dark last night, and now is back with a vengeance (can't see the ridge, can almost not see the field in the foreground (can hear the birds however, beginning to call at first light). I had a crow sighting yesterday morning, or rather a pair of them, perched on telephone wire to the right of Smiley's when I was coming back from my paddle across the channel (made me think of your "Corvus corax principalis" here, in "The Challenge". No shark sightings here (by me, I mean), happily.<br />Meanwhile, working these last two days on digging out under the house before putting down moisture barrier and insulation -- no crawl space to speak of and hardly an entrance to get in there -- should have been done years ago, I know now, but here we are, and so it goes on. . . .<br /><br />6.22<br /><br />light coming into fog against invisible<br />ridge, birds beginning to call in field<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> picture filled with strokes<br /> of pen, tonal addition<br /><br /> in hearing that, may happen,<br /> matter that is telling<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />cloudless blue sky to the left of pointSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36920115256292892592011-06-21T16:21:37.593-07:002011-06-21T16:21:37.593-07:00I have been enjoying this all this long (and it...I have been enjoying this all this long (and it's still going strong) day, which began with an early in-and-out trip to Manhattan, definitely "bickering with the morning rush hour flow". The trip back to Pennsylvania was smooth, but the paired ravens still reminded me of Caroline and me alone without Jane all week, operating again as a duo. I think the first time I saw real ravens was during a visit to the Tower of London and seeing these guys (and the old Nike missile site) is really something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52227017586292535182011-06-21T13:42:26.303-07:002011-06-21T13:42:26.303-07:00Nature celebrating life, in spite of traffic.
A b...Nature celebrating life, in spite of traffic.<br /><br />A bright tribute to ravens.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14629712959827681992011-06-21T13:09:12.640-07:002011-06-21T13:09:12.640-07:00thanks for this one Tom. In recent years we have a...thanks for this one Tom. In recent years we have a band of parrots in our Jersey town. They make a tremendous racket, but the flashes of bright green and gray are like a minor miracle here. As are, for me, the ravens and grackles, robins and doves, sparrows and ducks and geese and the myriad winged creatures filling the trees and "river" (more like a creek) and sky making me happy to be alive to witness it all.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68970062558398452832011-06-21T07:03:49.591-07:002011-06-21T07:03:49.591-07:00Ah, me! Steve. How long can it last?
A. wonders i...Ah, me! Steve. How long can it last?<br /><br />A. wonders if you are being grounded by the Great Shark Scare.<br /><br />We imagine you as the forever young Marine God on the long board, <br /><br />flattened it like on a line,<br /><br />& c.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-75385978408845259942011-06-21T06:23:04.492-07:002011-06-21T06:23:04.492-07:00Tom,
Hooray for the ravens -- "defying traff...Tom,<br /><br />Hooray for the ravens -- "defying traffic," "descending like black stones in the stream/ then flapping up --"!<br />Solstice at 10:16 this morning, and it finally feels like summer. . . .<br /><br />6.21<br /><br />faint pink of cloud above still shadowed<br />plane of ridge, half moon next to branch<br />in foreground, waves sounding in channel<br /><br /> physical, on the other hand<br /> at the same time still<br /><br /> flattened it like on a line,<br /> but holding it, called<br /><br />silver of low sun reflected in channel,<br />shadowed slope of ridge across from itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com