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Sunday

05Jul2009

A day of packing, errands before another little trip

Sunday, 5 July, 2009 at 10:54 AM

Updated on Sunday, 12 July, 2009 at 3:03 PM by Melody

Those blackberries have been on my mind a lot lately. I've been gone from the WV house for so long that I'm a little afraid I've missed my window of opportunity. What with nature's way of moving things along in a meticulous little rhythm, and all. Just because when I left there all those weeks ago, there were many, many blossoms, and lots of tiny starter beginnings of berries, too, doesn't mean time stood still and I'll return in time to find the lush, ripe berries of my dreams. The best I can hope for is that some of them will have ripened in waves and while I may have missed some, others will just be ripe for picking.

Because a woman can dream.

Tomorrow morning

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Sunday

07Jun2009

Spider web & blackberry bush photography as metaphor for life?

Sunday, 7 June, 2009 at 1:41 PM

Click all photos to enlargeIt's been a while since I've seen "my" spider web: the one I nearly walked through in April, during my last escape to this house. The spider web I subsequently became mildly obsessed with photographing. It occurred to me that after this much time, it could be gone now. 'Course this thought was driven by the daily conditioning that comes from typically living in a much busier location. Nature, I've been noticing, has a fairly healthy "live and let live" attitude. (Except for times when it's necessary to "destroy" something for self-preservation, that is. Since we're talking about spider webs and all.)

Walking out the door this morning to finally go see if I might get another shot to add to my collection, I recalled Chris Laney's suggestion that I

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Saturday

30May2009

Buckets of blackberries in my future?

Saturday, 30 May, 2009 at 8:59 PM

The only time "blackberry pickin" has ever been a part of my life was during summertime visits to my grandparents' home in West Virginia. Sally and any of the neighborhood kids who felt like joining her, plus her grandchildren visiting from **somewhere in the Carolinas would go for a 3 mile walk "around the river road" carrying empty bags and milk cartons with the tops cut out to collect the fat, warm, yummy berries that exploded in our mouths as we picked until we grew bored of the activity long before "Mamaw" did. (Most of these memories occurred long before I got all defiant and rebillious and started