THIS WEBPAGE EVOCATIVELY ILLUSTRATES MY HAPPINESS IN THE WORLD, A MEDIUM TO SHARE, MY HAPPINESS, WITH THE WORLD. PLEASE ENJOY
THIS ALLURING & SUBLIME CAROLINA PINK ROSE IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR ALL THE GROOVY PEOPLE.
BEAUTY IS ALIVE AROUND YOU AND WITHIN YOU.
THIS RHODODENDRON ROSEUM ELEGANS IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR MY SWEET DAUGHTER BROOKE.
THIS EXQUISITE YELLOW ROSE IS GAIA'S GIFT TO YOU.
THIS ALLURING HEIRLOOM IRIS IS ESPECIALLY FOR BROOKE.
AN ALLURING SOUTHERN NODDING TRILLIUM APRIL 24, 2024
THIS SPLENDID DAYLILY IS ESPECIALLY FOR BROOKE.
THIS RESPLENDENT PINK TRILLIUM IS INDEED GRAND. Trillium grandiflorum f. roseum
THIS BUTTERCUP IN A RIOT OF AZALEA FLOWERS IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR BROOKE.
THIS CHESTNUT SPINY CUPULE HAS COMPLETED IT'S CRADLING AND NURTURING OF THREE CHESTNUTS. NATURE'S BEAUTY AND MYSTERY IS EVER ASTONISHING.
STAGHORN SUMAC'S MAJESTIC PANICLE OF DRUPES IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR THE LOVERS OF FALL.
STAGHORN SUMAC ABLAZE IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR YOU.
NANDINA'S AUTUMN RADIANT GLOW IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR YOU.
OH HOW HAPPY, CHESTNUT LEAVES, FLOWERS, AND AN AMAZING LOOKING SPINY CUPULE WHICH WILL BE THE HOME FOR THREE NEWBIE CHESTNUTS. JULY 23, 2023
A SHORT STORY IN PROGRESS
MYSTICAL TULIPS
December 27, 2023 Water lapping against a red cedar pier, Lake Michigan ebbs and flows at my feet and the gusty Northwest wind flow surrounds and pounds me. Nearby, I hear peepers in a riot of chorus vocalizing ebullient joy. Pink and blue cotton candy clouds flow and it's early May, and I am standing in a copse of Norway maples and as far as I can see, there are multi-colored tulips bending with the freshening breeze and I see your face in the carpet of colors, smiling so sweetly and singing arias to the Indigo Buntings and sparrows zooming by. And, they swoop to the lovely and majestic cornucopia of fantastic hues of red, orange, yellow, and white blooms held by swaying and gyrating stems of green rising from the brown ground, your face among them all around. These tulips contain magic and are composed of perfect and deep love for sharing. December 31, 2023 Just as Helen Of Troy's beauty launched a thousand ships, your face has that effect on the thousands of tulip flowers in this magnificent woodland meadow. The gyrating tulips begin to vibrate in unison creating a soothing motion that lulls the curious avians into a trance and the entire milleu begins to sway in dancelike movement reminicent of Walt's Fantasia. And, soon the tulip flowers transform into bells and the thousands begin to create a handbell choir aural majestic concerto featuring Indigo Bunting soloists.
A TRULY GOBSMACKING SUNRISE HORIZON HAWKS BILL & TABLE ROCK PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY NOVEMBER 23, 2003
THE MAGNIFICENT IRONWEED
AN ELEGANT SOUTHERN NODDING TRILLIUM'S SUBLIME HEART-SHAPED PRESENCE IN OUR BEAUTIFUL WORLD.
WOW! LOOK AT THIS CROWN-TIPPED CORAL MUSHROOM AND BE AMAZED.
THIS supercalifragilistic PINK TRILLIUM IS expialidocious.
THESE RESPLENDENT 'SENTIMENTAL BLUE' BALLOON FLOWERS ARE FOR YOU.
THIS ROSEUM ELEGANS RHODODENDRON IS MOST ESPECIAALLY FOR BROOKE.
THIS BUTTERCUP IN A RIOT OF AZALEA FLOWERS IS LIKE GAIA'S PRESENCE WITHIN, AROUND, AND THROUGHOUT OUR LOVELY EARTH HOME.
A CASCADE OF NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN PARADISE...
GAIA GIVES BIRTH TO THE EARTH
LOOK INSIDE THIS PITCH PINE SOFTWOOD AND FIND GROOVINESS...
THE TORTOISE AND THE PEAR
THIS IS A SOUTHERN NODDING TRILLIUM
FEBRUARY 23, 2023 PINK AND BLUE COTTON CANDY CLOUDS AND THE WESTERN HORIZON ON FIRE WITH THE SETTING SOL. THE SPECTRAL ARC OF LUNA AND JUPITER AND VENUS TICKLES MY ASTRONOMICAL FANCY AS I DANCE IN THE GLOAMING.
THE BEGINNING OF A METAPHYSICAL CONJUNCTION JANUARY 27, 2023 THIS NIGHT'S SKY ILLUMINATES MY INNER MIND WITH THOUGHTS LIKE PUFFY CLOUDS ON ZEPHYRS, INDEED SUBLIME. SATURN FALLING OFF THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE HORIZON FOLLOWED BY OUR SHINE-SO-BRIGHTLY SISTER VENUS, OUR LANTERN IN THE SKY. JUKING ALONG ZOOMS JUPITER AND LUNA'S INTO WAXING GIBBOUS ALRIGHT. JUST BEYOND LOOKING EASTWARD, NEAR POLARIS, MARS IN IT'S RUDDY GLOW; OH, WHAT A SHOW. MAGNIFICIENT CELESTIAL ALIGNMENT. MAGNIFICIENT CONJUNCTION OF TWO BEAUTIFUL BEINGS, LUXURIATING IN OUR METAPHYSICAL TRANCE, NOW IN A HARMONIOUS BOND OF GOBSMACKING STELLAR DELIGHT. THIS NIGHT'S SKY IS YOUR INNER METAPHYSICAL SOUL'S STRENGTH AWAKENING. IN YOUR EYES, GODDESS OF GROOVE, THIS STELLAR SPECTACLE REFLECTS YOUR INNER MAJESTIC GLOW AND AURAL TONES.
THIS IS MY LUNAR LIT LANDSCAPE MASTERPIECE. DECEMBER 25, 2018.
THIS MAJESTIC VISUAL CANDY IS FOR ALL THE GROOVY PEOPLE. WINTER SOLSTICE SUNRISE DECEMBER 21, 2014
SNOWDROPS JANUARY 25, 2023
WHAT A GROOVY SUNRISE DECEMBER 18, 2014 THIS IS ESPECIALLY FOR EVALYN.
JACKFROST ON MY KITCHEN STORM DOOR
ICE, WITH JAGS AND RIPPLES, ON MY KITCHEN STORM DOOR WINDOW; FROZEN, GOBSMACKING BEAUTY.
GOLDEN LEAF FALL
CHESTNUTS BURSTING FROM THEIR SPINY CUPULE ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE NATURAL WORLD EXPERIENCES TO OBSERVE.
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 WANING CRESCENT MOONGLOW THROUGH THE TULIP POPLAR BRANCHES THIS MORNING AS I BEGAN TO STIR, A DRAMATIC NATURAL WORLD SCENE INVOLVING LUNA AND THE GLORIOUSLY STATELY NEWLY SHORN LEAF-SHEDDED TREES; THE GUSTY WEST WIND SHAKING THE LEAF-BARE TRUNKS, BRANCHES, AND TWIGS, SWAYING, AS I OBSERVED SLEEPY-EYED SWOONING, VIGOROUSLY IN ITS BREEZE. LOOKING WEST IN THE PREDAWN SKY ORION'S BELT STARS POINT TO PLEIADES IN THE TAURUS CONSTELLATION KNOWN AS THE SEVEN SISTERS.
BUBBLING BROOK BABBLING
AUGUST 15, 2006 MELANIE'S FOOD FANTASY BOONE, NC EXECUTIVE CHEF MELANIE PATTERSON
SUBLIME VISTA
AUGUST 9, 2019
TIGER SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES FROLICKING IN THE TULIP POPLAR TREE CANOPY
FLEETING, FREELY FALLING, FLITTING, FOCUSED GLIDING, THE NUMEROUS TIGER SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES SOAR AND FLUTTER WITHIN AND THROUGHOUT THE TULIP POPLAR CANOPIES. YELLOW FLUTTERING IN THE GREEN CANOPY SEEKING A MATE WITH SUPERIOR TRAITS. BUTTERS FLYING FLUTTERS FLOATING, SWEEPING, SWAYING, SASHAYING, GLIDING, GYRATING, GLEEFULLY AMONG THE FLUTTERING POPLAR LEAVES, FLOWING WITH THE EASTERN BREEZE. WHIRLING DERVISHES OF FANTASTIC DELIGHT; FLITTING, FLUTTERING, FLOATING... GAIA GLEEFULLY OBSERVES FROM THE TOP OF A TULIP POPLAR TREE, PERCHED IN THE NEST OF AN EASTERN TOWHEE.
JULY 15, 2019
Queen Anne's Lace full of grace, katydids chirping for companionship: Homo Sapiens on social media, seeking the same. Purple coneflower and Day-lilies, having their day in the sun; Hummingbirds hovering, into and out of, lavender Hosta flowers, nectar and pollen, making their day. Iridescent black and blue Swallowtails sweeping across Queen Anne's Lace; Late afternoon thunderstorms, and the Pheee Beeeee of the Eastern Phoebe; the Errrr Eeeeeeee of the Eastern Towhee, and the vibratory trilling, NnnnnnnnAaaa of the White-breasted Nuthatch; Late afternoon thunderstorms, A colony of honeybees "throws a swarm;" chestnuts in cupules, expanding day by day; Summertime, and Gaia smiles.
PSYCHEDELIC SUNRISE
THIS GOLDEN ZUCCHINI SQUASH BLOSSOM IS ESPECIALLY FOR ALL THE GARDEN LOVERS
THESE SUBLIME AND RESPLENDENT POWDER BLUE BALLOON FLOWERS ARE ESPECIALLY FOR YOU.
GAIA'S REFLECTION IN THE MOISTURE SATURATED TROPOSPHERE; EARTH MOTHER IS THE RAINBOW, THE RAINBOW IS EARTH MOTHER; GAIA IS THE REFLECTION OF THE RAINBOW IN THE MOISTURE-LADEN AIR.
THREE CHESTNUTS IN THEIR SPINY CUPULES
THIS RARE ALBINO WHITE LADY'S SLIPPER IS ESPECIALLY FOR DR. ROSE. THIS PLANT IS GROWING IN AN AREA RICH WITH PINK LADY'S SLIPPERS.
AN ABSTRACT OF RED OAK TREE SHADOWS ON GAIA'S EARLY SPRING CARPET
THIS SPLENDID WHITE TRILLIUM IS FOR ALL THE GROOVY PEOPLE.
THIS SUBLIME NODDING TRILLIUM IS FOR ALL THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.
RIME ICE ON RED OAK BRANCHES AND A CAROLINA BLUE SKY
EARLY MORNING BIRDSONG MAY 15, 2018
EARLY MORNING BIRDSONG, MELODIC ARIAS OF GAIA'S SUBLIME OPERA; ROBIN'S SWEET SOUNDS OF AVIAN LOVE, TOUCH THEIR BEAKS WITH MAGIC AND MORNING DOVES JOIN IN WITH SOFT MURMURING COOS. RED-CRESTED WOODPECKER BURSTING WITH JOYFULLY AUDIBLE EXCITEMENT, IN THE DISTANCE, BENJAMIN, THE GOBBLER AWAKENS THE HENS; AND CROWS CACKLING CACOPHONY, IN A SYCOPHANTIC UNISON, GAIA'S ORATORIO GUSTO... AND THE CRESCENDO BEGINS AS THE RUFFED GROUSE FLAPS HIS WINGS, WITH SPEEDS SIMILAR TO HUMMINGBIRDS DRUMMING ON THE TULIP POPLAR STUMP, LIKE TYMPANI THRUMMING, FELINE FEROCITY CLAWS AT THE BASE OF A CHESTNUT TREE, AND BIRDS TAKE TO THE WING... AND THEN THE BLUEBIRD FAMILY ARRIVES TO FILL IN WITH SWEET MELODIC ARIAS; UNTIL THE JUVENILE RED-TAILED HAWK ARRIVES WITH A SCREAMING CREENING KEE-EEEEE-ARR. AND GAIA, HOLDING THE BATON, CONDUCTS, SMILES, AND SIGHS, ANOTHER DAY IN HER GLORIOUS PARADISE...
THIS SYCAMORE BARK & FALLING LEAF OCTOBER 21, 2013, IS FOR YOU.
GAIA GIVES BIRTH TO THE EARTH
NOVEMBER 1, 2020 Your aura is radiance; blue moon fever and windblown terrain; your smile is alive with essence of sunshine. Your aura is firelight; blue moon fever and windblown terrain; your essence, firelight. Your aura is an out flowing of your essence; pure radiance. Your eyes, firelight; your essence, blue moon fever and windblown terrain; your strength, ocean wave. Sweet tea, sweet potato, sweet times, flavors and rhymes; firelight, blue moon fever and wind blown terrain; your eyes alive, your essence, sweet times. Your eyes, firelight; your essence, blue moon fever and windblown terrain; your strength, ocean wave. Your aura is an out flowing of your essence; pure radiance. Wind and fire; sound and fury; pop corn in the kettle; aroma of earth; New flown bird; tree line swaying; windblown terrain; volcanic power unleashed in air; just like you, rare. fly on little one; fly and be free; sunshine essence in your wings. Blue moon fever, windblown terrain; night alive with fury and sound. Ocean wave, surf streaming under crunchy pebbles and shells of long past life. A life lived, a life of happiness, a life of fulfillment; your eyes, firelight; your essence, blue moon fever and windblown terrain; Your strength, ocean wave.
MAY 31, 2020 Air, sky, blue stones in the creek, your eyes, your hair, your cheek. Your hand, my hand, friends on an Island. Smiles and laughter, euphoria and mirth, we are human by our birth, we are free, as the breeze. that flows through the trees. dazzling and lustrous stars in the sky, Air.
APRIL 21, 2021
GAIA SHAKES AND SQUALLS, THE NORTHWEST ARTIC BLAST; SCOURING OUR NEWLY ANOINTED SPRING EMERGENT FLORA, WITH GUSTY SHUDDERS AND FRIGID FLUTTERS. THE TINY NARROW LEAVES AND FLORAL TEPALS OF GRAPE HYACINTH, ARE CONFUSED BY THE DELUGE OF BRUTAL COLD WIND AND ALL AVIAN FRIENDS ARE ABSENT. JOYOUSLY, I AM SURE GAIA IS NESTLED WITH EACH OF THE SONIC SWEETLINGS.
THE WOODED SEA MARCH 10, 2021 IN A SEA OF TREES, I AM A TREE, IN A SEA OF TREES; I AM FREE, TO BE A TREE, IN A SEA OF TREES. I AM A TULIP POPLAR, GAIA RESIDES IN MY CANOPY, IN THE NEST OF AN EASTERN TOHEE. I AM A TREE, IN A SEA OF TREES...
AUGUST 15, 2006 MELANIE'S FOOD FANTASY BOONE, NC EXECUTIVE CHEF MELANIE PATTERSON
June 20, 2006
Bistro Roca
Blowing Rock, NC
Executive Chef Michael Foreman
VANCE TOE RIVER LODGE PLUMTREE, NC JULY 31, 2007 EXECUTIVE CHEF WILL YOUNG
JOE'S ITALIAN KITCHEN BOONE, NC EXECUTIVE CHEF JOE CARFARO AUGUST 28, 2007 PART 1
JOE'S ITALIAN KITCHEN BOONE, NC EXECUTIVE CHEF JOE CARFARO AUGUST 28, 2007 PART 2
COYOTE KITCHEN BOONE, NC AUGUST 30, 2005 EXECUTIVE CHEF MICHAEL NELSON
BENJAMIN STRUTTIN' HIS TERRITORIAL "STUFF"
A SPLENDID AND SUBLIME TULIP POPLAR FLOWER
CELEBRATION OF THE GREAT CONJUNCTION DECEMBER 23, 2020
TWIN BEAMS COALESCING INTO ONE; SATURN AND JUPITER CONJUNCTION. COPERNICAN REVOLUTION, GALILEAN MOONS, IO, EUROPA, GANYMEDE, AND CALISTO, JUPITER'S ORBITALS; THE LACY FRINGES OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM FLIRTING, WITHIN OUR TERRAN SIGHT. LATER, LUNA AND THE RED PLANET GRACE OUR VIEW, THOUGHTS OF HEINLEIN AND MUSK, ROCKETING EARTHLINGS TO MARS, ANEW.
DECEMBER 11, 2020
SOLAR FLARES, YOUR HAIR; RAYS OF SUNSHINE, YOUR SMILE, SUBLIME. WITHIN, COURSES THE ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS OF THE RAINBOW, IN THE HUMAN VISIBLE SPECTRUM; VIOLET, INDIGO, BLUE, GREEN, YELLOW, ORANGE, RED. AND THAT SAID, ENJOY LIFE AND SHARE KINDNESS.
WHOOSH, CRASH, SPLASH DECEMBER 1, 2020
YOUR EYES ARE AS THE STARS; YOUR EYES ARE STELLAR PORTALS AND YOUR SMILE RADIATES MOONBEAMS. YOUR BEAUTY IS LIKE WALKING ALONG THE SAVANNAH RIVER. YOUR SMILE IS AS THE WHOOSH, CRASH, SPLASH OF THE RAPIDS. YOUR LIFE IS A BEAUTIFUL PRESCENCE IN OUR WORLD. MY SOUL LONGS TO SHARE FRIENDSHIP WITH YOUR SOUL. AS THE FULL MOON WAS BEING ECLIPSED BY OUR EARTH'S PENUMBRA,, I SAW YOUR EYES IN THE CLOUDS, RADIANTLY AGLOW, EMBELISHED WITH A RAINBOW. YOUR EYES ARE ORION AS IT TRAVERSES THE SKY, AND I AM GOBSMACKED...
FOR THE GODDESS, STEVIE NICKS THE SKY YOUR EYES, THE EARTH YOUR ESSENCE, AND YOUR GROUND. THE WIND YOUR VOICE. THE LIGNTNING FLASHES HIGHLIGHTENING YOUR LASHES; YOUR EYES, SWEET COLORS OF BLUE, GREEN AND GOLD; A VELVETY AQUAMARINE SHEEN, THE RAINBOW ON EARTH, MOONGLOW IN THE EARLY MORN, FLOWING AMONGST THE CLOUDS; YOUR LIFE ALIVE IN MINE, DANCING IN THE GLOAMING...
OCTOBER 1, 2020
THE SKY YOUR EYES THE EARTH YOUR ESSENCE AND YOUR GROUND. THE WIND YOUR VOICE THE LIGNTNING LIGHTS UP YOUR EYES THE RAINBOW THE MOOGLOW IN THE EARLY MORN, YOUR LIFE ALIVE IN MINE, DANCING IN THE GLOAMING...
JUNE 21, 2020 Sol shine Your smile; moonbeams, Your eyes; ocean waves, Your hair; volcanic fire, Your enduring strength and tenacious desire. Your smile is as the super moon, on a windswept night; as the rising sun on the Summer Solstice, this day, the twenty first of June.
May 26, 2020 Morning doves, birds in love, cooing, as they sift and pick up grit; Scarlet Cardinal perched, upon the green fence post, chants his territorial trill. Mama red bird, hither and thither, between new-mown grass and her holly-berry protected nest, in her never-ending quest; Downy Woodpecker's incessant hammering, and the whole milieu in sonic jubilee. Gaia's baton oscillates in 4/4 time...
LANTERN IN THE SKY
YOUR EYES, LIKE VENUS, YOUR LIPS, LIKE SATURN, YOUR FACE, LIKE LUNA, YOUR HAIR SHINES, UNLIKE ANY OTHER PLANET OR STAR. YOUR BEAUTY, AS THE SUNSET ON A LAKE OF TRANQUILITY, YOUR EBULLIENT SMILE IS RADIANT, YOUR EYES ARE MEDALLIONS OF LIVING TREASURES, YOUR HAIR IS LIKE A WATERFALL CASCADING. YOUR EYES ARE LIKE WALT DISNEY'S DREAMS. YOUR SMILE IS LIKE A SUNRISE. YOUR BEING IN THIS WORLD, STIMULATES MY POETRY... THE SHAPE OF YOUR CHIN, THE ANGLE OF YOUR FACE, YOUR FABULOUS HAIR, AND YOUR SPECIAL GRACE, ARE EVOCATIVE TO ME.
APRIL 30, 2020 There is a tulip poplar leaf, there is There is a chestnut leaf, there is one a globular configuration of mystical photosynthetic prowess, and the other a saber-like photosynthetic power of extraordinary sublimity; both leaves, composed of collenchyma, parenchyma, sclerenchyma, xylem and phloem; bubblingly alive with water, effervescently alive with carbon dioxide, foundationally alive with minerals, and extravagantly supplied with copious sunbeams. Chloroplasts filled with stroma-rich chlorophyll, There is photosynthate, there is There is glucose, there is There is oxygen, there is There is life, there is...
MARCH 1, 2020
You are Earth, Goddess Gaia, I am air; lightning and volcanoes, WE are FIRE.
MARCH 1, 2020 LUNA, VENUS, AND JUPITER, TRIUNE POLYGON STELLAR SPECTACLE, WITH GLADNESS, I BEHOLD; YOUR EBULLIENT SMILE AND EVOCATIVE EYES, AROUSE IN ME, JUBILANT SIGHS.
MARCH 1, 2020 SNOW MELTS IN THE FIELDS AND FORESTS, AS SOL WARMS OUR EARTH. YOUR RADIANT POWER, IN MY SOUL, MELTS MY HEARTFUL OF WOUNDS, AND MY SOULFUL OF PAIN.
FEBRUARY 14, 2020 Your eyes, evocatively glow, showers of sunshine and sparkles of snow. Flows of assertive strength; your presence, in our world; it's width and depth, and length, is volcanic...
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
VALENTINE'S DAY, WITHOUT A VALENTINE. WHAT IS THAT LIKE ? FOR ME, A STAR SAPPHIRE, WITHOUT THE STAR.
FEBRUARY 7, 2020 YOUR EYES, SEA SHELLS, ALIVE; YOUR SMILE, PEARLS AND GARNET GLOWING, LAUGHTER FLOWING... OCEAN WAVES, HAPPY DAYS, WALKING, HAND IN HAND, OUR FEET IN THE SAND AND SURF. MOMENTS OF TIME, NEVER ENOUGH.
THIS PHOTO IS FOR ALL THE COOL PEOPLE; A MESMERIZINGLY SURREAL ICE FORMATION, ON MY KITCHEN STORM DOOR.
CASCADING WATER, ESSENCE OF LIFE...
January 22, 2020 Peace and Beauty, golden hues and blues; evocative eyes and ebullient smile. Sounds of rushing water in the cascading creek, Your glow, like a yellow trout lily, in all of it's exuberant presentation, early in the Spring. Your smile is like the ultra rare, white Lady's slipper, nestled in the shade of laurel and ivy, within an Appalachian cove forest.
YOUR EYES ARE AS ORION TRAVERSING THE SKY; YOUR LIPS AS OCEAN WAVES KISSING THE SHORE. I HEAR YOUR LOVELY VOICE IN AURAL TONES WITHIN CONCH SEASHELL HORNS. YOUR RADIANTLY RAPTUROUS LOCKS OF GOLDEN BROWN, HIGHLIGHT YOUR EYES AND SMILE.
BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT, SPEAK UNTO ME; YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE, YOU ARE THE BRIGHTEST OF THE SEVEN SISTERS, PLEIADES. YOUR EYES, IN THE SKIES, WITH SAPPHIRES. YOUR SMILE, ALIVE WITH STYLE; MY HEART FEELS YOUR HEARTBEAT...
BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT, SPEAK UNTO ME; IN YOUR EYES, I SEE SKIES. YOUR SMILE IS A RAINBOW; YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE, YOU ARE THE BRIGHTEST OF THE SEVEN SISTERS, PLEIADES. YOUR EYES, IN THE SKIES, WITH SAPPHIRES. YOUR SMILE, ALIVE WITH STYLE; MY HEART FEELS YOUR HEARTBEAT...
LOVE BEADS, BLACK LIGHT POSTERS, SUEDE LEATHER PURSES, 1970 SOUNDTRACK; I FEEL YOU IN MY HIPPIE STORE. GROOVY !
CINNAMON, NUTMEG, ORANGES; FRAGRANCES OF OUR HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA. EVERGREEN ESSENCE, MISTLETOE; ICE CYCLES AND YOUR FACE, PRESSED AGAINST THE FROSTY WINDOW. I AM JUST OUTSIDE, ENAMORED WITH YOUR SHINING, STAR-LIKE RADIANCE.
FANTASTICALLY AMAZING SNOW & PINE NEEDLE WREATH FOR ALL THE COOL PEOPLE
SWEET SNOW ANGEL DECEMBER, 11, 2019
SWEET SNOW ANGEL, AS I GAZED UPON MY WESTERN DECK, ENCASED IN SNOW, LIT, BRILLIANTLY, BY LUNA'S RADIANT GLOW, ICE CRYSTALS SHIMMERED, AND YOUR PRESENCE IN MY MIND, FLICKERED & GLIMMERED. SWEET AND TENDER MEMORIES OF OUR YESTERDAY'S MOMENTS, SHONE IN THE GLOWING... YOUR FACE, LUNA'S RADIANCE, OUR EYES, OUR SMILES, OUR DESIRES, OUR HOPES, ALL CAME TOGETHER, FOR ME, WITH YOUR GRACIOUS FRIENDLY HUG. I WILL BE EVER GRATEFUL FOR YOUR GIFT. SWEET SNOW ANGEL, IN MY VIEW, YOU ARE VERY NEAR, AND I WISH THAT I COULD HEAR, YOUR FUN AND ENGAGING VOICE. I WOULD BE HAPPY TO BREW A POT OF COFFEE FOR YOU, AND SEND IT DOWN THE MOUNTAIN, TO YOU, BY FRISBEE. SWEET SNOW ANGEL, LIT BY LUNA, IN MY MIND, IN MY HEART, IN MY SOUL. YOUR KINDNESS, THRILLS ME, AND YOU ARE APPRECIATED, SWEET SNOW ANGEL.
LANTERN IN THE SKY JUNE, 3, 1018 YOUR EYES, LIKE VENUS, YOUR LIPS, LIKE SATURN, YOUR FACE, LIKE LUNA, YOUR HAIR SHINES, UNLIKE ANY OTHER PLANET OR STAR. YOUR BEAUTY, AS THE SUNSET ON A LAKE OF TRANQUILITY, YOUR EBULLIENT SMILE IS RADIANT, YOUR EYES ARE MEDALLIONS OF LIVING TREASURES, YOUR HAIR IS LIKE A WATERFALL CASCADING. YOUR EYES ARE LIKE WALT DISNEY'S DREAMS. YOUR SMILE IS LIKE A SUNRISE. YOUR BEING IN THIS WORLD, STIMULATES MY POETRY... THE SHAPE OF YOUR CHIN, THE ANGLE OF YOUR FACE, YOUR FABULOUS HAIR, AND YOUR SPECIAL GRACE, ARE EVOCATIVE TO ME.
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
ICE-CRUSTED CHESTNUT LEAVES, SWAYING IN THE BREEZE, ICE AND SLEET TUMBLING, SNOW BLOWING; MY FIREPLACE ROARING; A POT OF CHILI ON THE STOVE AND A CAKE OF CORNBREAD IN THE CAST IRON SKILLET, WINTER HAS ARRIVED.
FULL MOON TUESDAY NIGHT, LUNA RULES THE SKY BRIGHT. LUNA SHINE, MOONSHINE, STUNNING STELLAR SPECTACLE, ICE & SLEET & BLOWING SNOW, SNOW PACK SPARKLES, SOLID WATER PENTACLES, CRYSTALS GLITTERING, REFLECTING LUNA'S RADIANCE. LUNA RULES THE SKY AT NIGHT.
NOVEMBER 5, 2019 TULIP POPLAR LEAVES ZOOMING, EAST TO NORTH ON A BLUSTERY BREEZE; LEAVES ON THE WING, LEAVES IN THE WIND; GUSTING FLURRIES, LEAFY WINGS AND STEMS, LIKE KITES AT THE BEACH WITH TAILS FLOWING, FURLING, FLUTTERING; NOT LIKE THE BEACH WIND; ONLY ONE OF A KIND, TRULY MOUNTAIN WIND, GUSTING, RUSHING, WHOOSHING, TULIP POPLAR LEAVES ZOOMING, LIKE STARS SHOOTING... PETIOLES CLEAVING FROM TREE BRANCH NODES, LEAVES AND STEMS ZOOMING WITH THE WINDY CURRENTS, TO THEIR EARTH BEDS; HUMUS...
SWEET, WHEN I SEE YOUR FACE, I SEE THE SUNRISE IN THE EASTERN SKY, WHEN I SEE YOUR FACE, I SEE LUNA SHIMMERING IN THE TULIP POPLAR TREES, SWAYING IN THE BREEZE. YOUR EYES ARE AGLOW WITH MAGIC...
OCTOBER 21, 2019 MISTS, MOUNTAINS, MISTY MOUNTAINS; SUNRAYS ON THE MISTY MOUNTAINS. YELLOW TULIP POPLAR LEAF FLUTTERING IN THE BREEZE. MOUNTAIN TOPS APPEARING EPHEMEARLY, THROUGH THE MORNING MOVING MISTS. CASCADING THROUGH THE CREVICES, RIDGES, AND OVER THE MAGNIFICIENTLY COLORED CANOPY. A CORNUCOPIA PATCHWORK QUILT, OF 2019'S FOUR SEASON'S ENERGIES. IN MY MIND, I SEE, YOUR LOVELY FORM, YOUR EYES AGLOW, AND YOUR EBULLIENT SMILE. REJOICE, WE ARE ONE...
STAGHORN SUMAC ABLAZE IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR ANA & ELON.
OCTOBER 19, 2019 THE WANING OCTOBER MOON, IS ILLUMINATING THE ORION CONSTELLATION; YOUR GRACEFUL STAR-LIKE PRESENCE IN OUR WORLD, SHINES AS PLEIADES GLOWS JUST WEST OF ORION. YOUR EYES, SPARKLING, YOUR SMILE, EBULLIENT, WITH STRENGTH AND LAUGHTER. THE SEVEN SISTERS, WISH THEY WERE AS EVOCATIVELY BEAUTIFUL AS YOU...
OCTOBER 17, 2019 TWILIGHT, YOUR EYES AND VENUS IN THE WESTERN SKY. DAWN, YOUR SMILE AND LUNA'S LUMINESCENCE. MORNING, YOUR HAIR, FLOWING IN THE NORTHWEST GUSTY WIND, MY GUITAR'S SWEETLY SONOROUS CADENCES, IN TIME WITH YOUR DANCE. AFTERNOON, YOUR EYES, YOUR SMILE, YOUR HAIR, THE SKY, THE EARTH, OUR HAPPINESS...
OCTOBER 16, 2019 WISHIN' YOU COULD SEE LEAVES RACING AROUND IN CIRCLES, WHIRLING DERVISHES; WIND GUSTING, LEAVES HUSTLING INTO SCURRYING CIRCLES... YOUR HAIR, WIND BLOWN, YOUR SMILE, MY MIND BLOWN. BURNING BUSH AFLAME, MY VITAL ESSENCE ON FIRE, WHEN YOU CALL MY NAME.
OCTOBER 14, 2019 AUTUMN IS SILVERY TREE TRUNKS, BOUNTIFUL SKIES, COLORFUL SHAPES, MOUNTAIN SPIRES; YOUR FACE LIT WITH SOL, YOUR ESSENCE, LIT WITH MAGIC IN MY MIND... THE LANTERN, VENUS, ILLUMINATES THE WESTERN HORIZON, YOUR FACE ILLUMINATES MINE.
WHIRLING DERVISHES OF OUR LAUGHTER
SEPTEMBER 28, 2019 YOUR SMILE AND MY SMILE; YOUR EYES AND MY EYES; OUR HEART-TO-HEART CONVERSATIONS, OUR SOUL-TO-SOUL DREAMS, YOUR SPIRIT AND MY SPIRIT ENGAGED IN EXISTENTIAL GROWTH, CONJURING OUR VITAL FORCE. EMPATHY, KINDNESS, HONESTY, AND RESPECT. OUR FRIENDSHIP, OUR HAPPINESS. YOUR SMILE AND MY SMILE. WHIRLING DERVISHES OF OUR LAUGHTER, FILL THE AUTUMN AIR...
OCTOBER 9, 2019 YOUR SMILE AND MY SMILE, YOUR EYES AND MY EYES, YOUR HEART AND MY HEART; OUR PERFECT MATCH. IN BIRD SONG, YOUR VOICE. IN BIRD FLIGHT, YOUR GRACE. IN BIRD'S NESTING, OUR REJOICING, BIRDS TWEETING IN THE WOODS. MY HEART BEATING FOR YOU. SUNSHINE, FRESH AIR, YOUR BEAUTIFUL HAIR. MY WORDS, YOUR MIND, OUR HEART'S ENTWINED.
NANDINA BERRIES IN THEIR GLORIOUS FALL EXUBERANCE
THE ESSENCE OF RAINBOW COLORS
RED IS THE COLOR OF THE SUNSET IN THE WESTERN SKY, ORANGE IS THE COLOR OF THE POPSICLE I LOVED MOST AS A CHILD. YELLOW IS THE ESSENCE OF BANANA AND LEMON, GREEN IS THE COLOR OF TREE LEAVES NOW SPRINGING. BLUE IS THE COLOR OF THE SKY CERULEAN, CYAN, AND AZURE. INDIGO IS THE DEEP COLOR OF PURPLE AND BLUE COMBINING INTO THIS DAZZLING HUE. VIOLET, THE ESSENCE OF DEEP PURPLES OF AMETHYST AND LAVENDER. AND VIOLA, THE GENUS OF FLORAL BEAUTIES; VIOLETS ARE WHAT I SEND TO YOU THIS DAY.
AS THE SKY ERUPTS WITH BURSTS OF THUNDER AND THE HEAVILY-LADEN SUPERSATURATED CLOUDS DRENCH THE LANDSCAPE. I WATCH AMUSED AND CURIOUS FROM MY WINDOW FACING WEST. THE DISTANT HORIZON IS BRIGHT WITH SUN-LADEN CUMULUS FORMATION QUICKLY EVOLVING INTO CUMULONIMBUS DARK GRAY SWOLLEN WITH AQUA AND EMPTYING UPON THE EARTH WITH POWER BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION. IF OUR METAPHYSICAL LIVES, COULD BE SO ENRICHED, WITH THE FULLNESS OF THIS POWER,
THIS SPLENDID ROSEUM ELEGANS RHODODENDRON IS FOR ALL THE COOL PEOPLE
THIS EVOCATIVE & SUBLIME IRIS IS FOR LOVERS
NANDINA IN ALL IT'S GLORIOUS FALL PRESENTATION
MAJESTIC CHEROKEE PRINCESS DOGWOOD BLOSSOMS AND A SPECTACULAR CAROLINA BLUE SKY
CHESTNUT CUPULES WITH THEIR NEEDLE-SHARP SPINES
AUGUST 9, 2019 YELLOW SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES FROLICKING IN THE TULIP POPLAR TREE CANOPY
FLEETING, FREELY FALLING, FLITTING, FOCUSED GLIDING, THE NUMEROUS YELLOW SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES SOAR AND FLUTTER WITHIN AND THROUGHOUT THE TULIP POPLAR CANOPIES. YELLOW FLUTTERING IN THE GREEN CANOPY, SEEKING A MATE WITH SUPERIOR TRAITS. BUTTERS FLYING FLUTTERS FLOATING, SWEEPING, SWAYING, SASHAYING, GLIDING, GYRATING, GLEEFULLY AMONG THE FLUTTERING POPLAR LEAVES, FLOWING WITH THE EASTERN BREEZE. WHIRLING DERVISHES OF FANTASTIC DELIGHT; FLITTING, FLUTTERING, FLOATING... GAIA GLEEFULLY OBSERVES FROM THE TOP OF A TULIP POPLAR TREE, PERCHED IN THE NEST OF AN EASTERN TOWHEE.
MAY 15, 2018
EARLY MORNING BIRDSONG, MELODIC ARIAS OF GAIA'S SUBLIME OPERA; ROBIN'S SWEET SOUNDS OF AVIAN LOVE, TOUCH THEIR BEAKS WITH MAGIC AND MORNING DOVES JOIN IN WITH SOFT MURMURING COOS. RED-CRESTED WOODPECKER BURSTING WITH JOYFULLY AUDIBLE EXCITEMENT, IN THE DISTANCE, BENJAMIN, THE GOBBLER AWAKENS THE HENS; AND CROWS CACKLING CACOPHONY, IN A SYCOPHANTIC UNISON, GAIA'S ORATORIO GUSTO... AND THE CRESCENDO BEGINS AS THE RUFFED GROUSE FLAPS HIS WINGS, WITH SPEEDS SIMILAR TO HUMMINGBIRDS DRUMMING ON THE TULIP POPLAR STUMP, LIKE TYMPANI THRUMMING, FELINE FEROCITY CLAWS AT THE BASE OF A CHESTNUT TREE, AND BIRDS TAKE TO THE WING... AND THEN THE BLUEBIRD FAMILY ARRIVES TO FILL IN WITH SWEET MELODIC ARIAS; UNTIL THE JUVENILE RED-TAILED HAWK ARRIVES WITH A SCREAMING CREENING KEE-EEEEE-ARR. AND GAIA, HOLDING THE BATON, CONDUCTS, SMILES, AND SIGHS, ANOTHER DAY IN HER GLORIOUS PARADISE...
GAIA AND CHAOS
JULY 31, 2019 AGILE GODDESS, NIMBLE SPRITE, SLIPS INTO MY CONSCIOUSNESS STREAM. GRACIOUS GAIA, PRIMORDIAL MOTHER SINGS A LULLABY, IN EBULLIENT BIRDSONG, LEAVES RUSTLING IN THE BREEZE, AND THE BILLION-FOLD PITTER-PATTER OF RAINDROPS. SOOTHING SUSURRATION...
JULY 29, 2019 LOVING LIVING MOMENTS OF SUNSHINE AND COOL TEMPS, BRING SUCH BOUNTIFUL JOY; LAVENDER HOSTA FLOWERS PROVIDE NECTAR, TO RUBY-THROATED, GREEN-BACKED HUMMINGBIRDS FLITTING, FLOATING, FLUTTERING, FEEDING; FEELINGS, VIBRANT WITH COLORS, ALIVE WITH HOPE, AND LOVING GAIA. PRIMORDIAL EARTH MOTHER UNITES LIFE FORCE; EARTH'S CLAY, LIPID, AMINO ACIDS, AND NUCLEOTIDE PRECURSORS, CO-MINGLED WITH MARS-SEEDED, METEORIC PROTO-BACTERIA. SUPERLATIVE ELUCIDATION !
JULY 23, 2019 OVERWHELMING FULLNESS OF ATMOSPHERIC RAIN, FOG, AND MOISTURE SATURATION; GAIA WELCOMES YOU TO THIS DAY, WITH EXPECTATION OF TOMORROW'S SUNSHINE, CAROLINA BLUE SKY, AND COOLING RESTORATION...
JULY 15, 2019 QUEEN ANNE'S LACE FULL OF GRACE, KATYDIDS CHIRPING FOR COMPANIONSHIP; HOMO SAPIENS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SEEKING THE SAME. PURPLE CONEFLOWER AND DAY LILIES, HAVING THEIR DAY IN THE SUN; HUMMINGBIRDS HOVERING, INTO AND OUT OF, LAVENDER HOSTA FLOWERS, NECTAR AND POLLEN, MAKING THEIR DAY. IRIDESCENT BLACK AND BLUE SWALLOWTAILS SWEEPING ACROSS QUEEN ANNE'S LACE; LATE AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS, AND THE PHEEE BEEEEEEEEEEE OF THE EASTERN PHOEBE, THE ERRRR EEEEEEEEEEEEEE OF THE EASTERN TOWHEE, AND THE VIBRATORY TRILLING, NNNNNNNNNAAAA OF THE WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH; CHESTNUTS IN SPINY CUPULES, EXPANDING DAY BY DAY; SUMMERTIME, AND GAIA SMILES...
GAIA'S GIFT FOR YOU, DURING THIS RAINY TIME; AN EVOCATIVELY SPLASHY, RADIANT, ENCHANTING, AND SUBLIME IRIS
JULY 11, 2019 LET'S WALK IN THE PARK: ENJOYING COMPANIONSHIP AND EXERCISE, LISTENING TO CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER, AND EBULLIENT BIRDSONG; WATCHING ROBINS STRUTTING AND ZOOMING, AND BUTTERFLIES FLITTING AND FLUTTERING, AND RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS HOVERING AND HUMMING, AND NECTAR AND POLLEN GATHERING HONEY BEES; THE DANCING QUEENS OF THE NATURAL WORLD. THE VIBRANT SOUNDS AND EXUBERANT SIGHTS OF WALKING IN THE PARK...
THIS HEART-RENDING POEM, WAS INSPIRED, AND IS ESPECIALLY FOR, EVERYONE WHO HAS EXPERIENCED ROMANTIC LOSS.
JUNE 21, 2019 METAPHYSICAL PATHWAYS INTO THE KNOWN UNKNOWN
SHOCKING BLUE ULTRAVIOLET STREAKS ACROSS THE SKY AND PHANTASMAGORICAL YELLOW AND AQUAMARINE HIDDEN CORNERS, OF LAST NIGHT'S DREAMSCAPE; CEREBRAL FLUID MOVING CURRENTS OF PRIMORDIAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL LIFE TRANSITIONS UNKNOWN, YET METAPHYSICALLY KNOWN, ERUPT WITH CATACLYSMIC YET, SYNERGISTIC PRESCIENT PROTOPLASM, OF LOST PARADISE, CASCADING INTO ENERGETICALLY RIPPLED WAVELENGTHS, WHICH SOLARIZE, AND THEN COMMENCE TO CO-JOIN, COINCIDE, AND POPULATE, FOR ME, THIS EXISTENTIAL MOMENT, UPON WINDSWEPT EMERGING FLOWER SPIKES, AND VIVID VERDANT LEAVES OF CHESTNUT TREES; JUXTAPOSED LANDSCAPES WITH AUTONOMOUSLY CONTROLLED, NEURONAL FED REALSCAPES.
SWEET & TART SALSA INGREDIENTS
SUNLIT MISTS KISSING THE MOUNTAINS
GOOD MORNING MOONSHINE, EARTH SAYS HELLO; YOU GLOW ABOVE US, WE SNUGGLE BELOW.
AUGUST 15, 2006 MELANIE'S FOOD FANTASY BOONE, NC MELANIE PATTERSON
JUNE 19, 2007 THE MANOR HOUSE CHETOLA RESORT BLOWING ROCK, NC SOUS-CHEF SETH PARKER PART 2
JUNE 21, 2005 CASA RUSTICA BOONE, NC EXECUTIVE CHEF JOHN GOODSON PART 1
JUNE 21, 2005 CASA RUSTICA BOONE, NC EXECUTIVE CHEF JOHN GOODSON PART 2
AUGUST 7, 2007 PSSGHETTI'S EXECUTIVE CHEF BEN ALLISON PART 1
BIRDS ON THE WING, MAKE MY HEART SING
THANKSGIVING 2018 TOAST AND JAM STUDIO
GOLDEN LEAF FALL NOVEMBER 1, 2018
FRILLY, VERDANT FERN FRONDS ADORNING THE MOUNTAINSIDE ARE GLORIOUS AND JUBILANT WITH PHOTOSYNTHETIC ENERGY AND ABUNDANT MOISTURE. MOST OF THE TREES ON THIS MAJESTIC MOUNTAIN TOP ARE TULIP POPLARS AND THEY ARE KISSED WITH FALL'S GOLDEN HUES. GOLDEN LEAF FALL IS PRANCING BEFORE MY HOME THIS MORNING AND I AM REJOICING BECAUSE GAIA IS BY MY SIDE. THE FIRST GOLDEN LEAF FALL TOUCHES THE SKY AND SWEEPS ACROSS THE LAND MAGNIFICENTLY FLOATING ON A ZEPHYR AND CASCADING WHIRLWIND AND WHIRLING DERVISHES FILL THE AIR WITH LEAF LAUGHTER AND JUBILEE. GOLDEN LEAVES FALLING AND VERDANT FERN FRONDS FRILLING. GAIA'S LOVE IS THRILLING AND FULFILLING. GAIA IS MY LIFE.
BENJAMIN STRUTTIN' HIS TERRITORIAL "STUFF"
ALL LEAVES FLIRT WITH FRESHENING BREEZES NOVEMBER 11, 2018
THIS WINDY AND BREEZE SWEPT MORNING, WHILE SIMMERING YELLOW CORN GRITS ON THE BACK BURNER, THE EMERGENT CLOUD COVER ENVELOPED MY WESTERN VISTA. WINDSWEPT MAPLE LEAVES, BROWN, FROM THEIR LONG SEASON'S LIFE, FLEW FAST AND FURIOUSLY IN SQUALLS. THEIR RESTING PLACE, THE PUNGENT GROUND, IN THIS TULIP POPLAR GROVE, ON THIS MOUNTAIN TOP. CHESTNUT LEAVES FLYING SIDEWAYS, WITH THIS SOUTHWEST WIND, MAPLE LEAVES, BROWN WITH LONGEVITY, FURIOUSLY FLOW IN THE AIR STREAM WEST TO EAST. THIS WIND FLOW IS IMPOSSIBLY POWERFUL AND MAGNIFICENT. ALL LEAVES FLIRT WITH FRESHENING BREEZES, AND THESE BROWN MAPLE LEAVES ARE A DRAMATIC CONTRAST WITHIN THE WHITISH LADEN CLOUD IMMENSITY SURROUNDING THE ENTIRE MOUNTAIN-SCAPE.
FROZEN ROSE LEAVES, FOR MY SWEET RENEE NOVEMBER 16, 2018
THE SPECTACLE OF FROZEN ROSE LEAVES MAKES MY SOUL RESONATE WITH WARMTH, AND MY HEART STRINGS, CHORDAE TENDINEAE, ARE PLUCKED BY SONOROUS NOTES OF RHAPSODY. FROZEN ROSE LEAVES, STRIKINGLY LUMINESCENT, WITH A BRILLIANT CLEAR COATING OF AQUA AND FRAGRANT WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF SESQUITERPENES. MY HEART LEAPS IN MY THORACIC CAVITY, WITH ANTICIPATION OF OUR NEXT EMBRACE, MY SWEET GAIA.
AS WE RIDE COMET LOVEJOY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, YOU HOLD ME TIGHT. AND WE LAND ON A PLANET IN THE ALPHA CENTAURI STAR SYSTEM, 4.37 LIGHTYEARS FROM OUR WORLD; AND YOU VENUS RIDE ME, YOUR MULTICOLORED UNICORN, ALONG THE MOUNTAIN RANGE, AND SUCCULENT VALLEYS FILLED WITH TRILLIUM AND YELLOW ROSES, AND CATBIRDS GEESE DOVES AND WE FALL IN LOVE...
BIRDS TWEETING IN THE WOODS. MY HEART BEATING FOR YOU. SUNSHINE FRESH AIR YOUR BEAUTIFUL HAIR. MY WORDS YOUR MIND OUR HEART'S ENTWINED.
IN THE CLOUDS, I SEE YOUR FACE; IN THE CLOUDS, I SEE YOUR SHAPE; IN THE CLOUDS, I SEE YOUR SMILE; AND THE SUN IS SETTING ON THE WESTERN HORIZON. IN THE CLOUDS YOU ARE THERE, AS THE SUN IS THERE ABOVE THE CLOUDS. AND YOU ARE THERE IN MY HEART, IN MY MIND, AND IN MY SOUL. AND I BELIEVE YOU ARE THERE, GAIA.
GAIA, IN BIRDSONGS THERE ARE MESSAGES IN THE MELODIES, INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO HUMAN PERCEPTIONS, AND UNDERSTANDING. IN YOUR EYES, GAIA, THERE ARE EMOTIONS AND HOPES AND DESIRES ONLY COMPREHENSIBLE TO YOUR ANTIGONE
SUN SHINE MOON SHINE STAR SHINE YOUR EYES, YOUR SMILE, YOUR AURA IN THIS PHYSICAL WORLD, MY EYES MY SMILE MY AURA IN THE METAPHYSICAL WORLD, LET'S JOIN TOGETHER GROOVIN' INTO THE TWO WORLDS...
IN THE SOIL AND IN THE WATER, THERE ARE LIFE-SUSTAINING MOLECULES AND COMPOUNDS. IN YOUR EYES AND IN YOUR SMILE THERE ARE BEAUTIFULLY EVOCATIVE TREASURES. MARVELING AT THE JUVENILE RUBY-THROAT, GREEN-BACKED HUMMINGBIRD SEARCHING FOR HOSTA FLOWERS YET BLOOMED; GOBSMACKED, AM I. MOMENTS IN THE BREEZE, AND YOU IN THE BREEZE, AND ME IN THE BREEZE... FLEETING, CHRONOS TIME... EVERMORE, KARIOS TIME.... IN THE FABRIC OF ATOMIC ENERGY, AND IN THE CLAY, YOU ARE RADIANT... POLLEN OF RHODODENDRON, NECTAR OF TULIP POPLAR, YOUR LIFEFORCE WITHIN MY LIFEFORCE. AND MY LIFEFORCE WITHIN YOUR LIFEFORCE. AND PEBBLES CASCADING, TUMBLING ALONG THE STREAM BED, WATCHED WITH EAGER ANTICIPATION BY CRAWDADS AND WATER STRIDERS... GAIA SUSTAINS, AND GAIA SMILES...
THERE ARE MAGNIFICENT CLOUDS, THERE IS MISTY BLUE AND VIOLET TOO. AND THERE IS YOU; STRENGTH, AND A MIST OF RAINBOW DRIFTING THROUGH THE VAPOR OF SUNSHINE AND ENERGY...
DRAGONFLY HOVERING AND DARTING OVER THE STREAM SURFACE; BLUES AND GREENS AND BLACKS, WITH WING MOTION, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, SEARCHING FOR WATER STRIDERS AND GNATS AND FLYING FREE, WITH MAJESTIC ENERGY, JUKING LIKE A HUMMINGBIRD, FLITTING FLIRTING FREELY FLOWING WITH THE AIR CURRENTS, SEARCHING, SCRUTINIZING THE WATER CURRENTS...
THE MISTS IN THE VISTA, ARE MOVING SOUTH TO NORTH THIS MORNING, AND THE BIRDSONG IN THE TULIP POPLAR FOREST IS ESTATCIALLY ALIVE WITH EXUBERANCE, FOR ANOTHER DAY OF PROMISE; AND CELESTIAL ENERGY FLOWS INTO THIS FOREST, IGNITING ANIMAL MAGNETISM, AND METAPHYSICAL BLISS. GAIA REJOICES, AND EBULLIENCE IS EFFUSIVELY SHARED FROM ONE TO ANOTHER ON TERRA, OUR LOVING MOTHER PLANET, WE ARE ONE AND WE ARE ALIVE BECAUSE OF THE SUN...
SUNDAY MORNING, FOGGY VISTA, AND BIRD SONG. ROBINS FLITTING, SEEKING WORMS IN THE MOIST SOIL, AND CROWS, WITH THEIR DISCORDANT YAMMERING. FLAME AZALEA BLOSSOMS SWAYING AND CHESTNUT LEAVES PHOTOSYNTHETIC VIBRATION. THE EARTH IS ALIVE, AGAIN, WITH ACTIVITIES BEYOND COMPREHENSION, AND SOUNDS, AUDIBLE, AND INHERENTLY DIMINUTIVE. BENJAMIN, THE GOBBLER, IS STRUTTING, AND THE HEN IS MOVING SECRETLY AND WARILY NEARBY. A RUFFED GROUSE DRUMS, AND BENJAMIN CLOSES IN ON THE HEN, WITH TAIL FEATHERS FULLY EXPANDED. AVIAN ECSTASY, AND COOING BONDING WILL SOON TAKE PLACE, ON OUR BELOVED EARTH, BENEATH THE TULIP POPLARS. GAIA REJOICES...
THIS MORNING, I AM WATCHING RAIN FALL, AND GRASS GROW AND TREE LEAVES SWAYING, AND HOSTA LEAVES ENGORGING TO THE SIZE OF BABY ELEPHANT'S EARS, AND FLAME AZALEA FLOWERS FLUTTERING, AND THE FUCHSIA-COLORED RHODODENDRON FLOWER BOBBING TO-AND-FRO, AND LISTENING TO THUNDER THRUMMING, AND MARVELING AT THE LIGHTNING STREAKING ACROSS THE AQUA SUPER-SATURATED HORIZON. AND NOW, THE MOUNTAIN FORMS BEGIN TO EMERGE THROUGH THE MISTS, AND THEIR RICH GREEN FORMS OF RIDGELINES AND PEAKS, ARE PEAKING THROUGH THE MISTY VAPORS, SWIRLING AROUND THEM LIKE HONEYBEES SWARMING AROUND A HIVE.
EARLY MORNING BIRDSONG, MELODIC ARIAS OF GAIA'S SUBLIME OPERA; ROBIN'S SWEET SOUNDS OF AVIAN LOVE, TOUCH THEIR BEAKS WITH MAGIC AND MORNING DOVES JOIN IN WITH SOFT MURMURING COOS. RED-CRESTED WOODPECKER BURSTING WITH JOYFULLY AUDIBLE EXCITEMENT, IN THE DISTANCE, BENJAMIN, THE GOBBLER AWAKENS THE HENS; AND CROWS CACKLING CACOPHONY, IN A SYCOPHANTIC UNISON, GAIA'S ORATORIO GUSTO... AND THE CRESCENDO BEGINS AS THE RUFFED GROUSE FLAPS HIS WINGS, WITH SPEEDS SIMILAR TO HUMMINGBIRDS DRUMMING ON THE TULIP POPLAR STUMP, LIKE TYMPANI THRUMMING, FELINE FEROCITY CLAWS AT THE BASE OF A CHESTNUT TREE, AND BIRDS TAKE TO THE WING... AND THEN THE BLUEBIRD FAMILY ARRIVES TO FILL IN WITH SWEET MELODIC ARIAS; UNTIL THE JUVENILE RED-TAILED HAWK ARRIVES WITH A SCREAMING CREENING KEE-EEEEE-ARR. AND GAIA, HOLDING THE BATON, CONDUCTS, SMILES, AND SIGHS, ANOTHER DAY IN HER GLORIOUS PARADISE...
THE RAINBOW IN THE VISTA, REFLECTION, REFRACTION, AND DISPERSION OF SUNLIGHT IN WATER DROPLETS, GENERATING THE PHENOMENONAL SPECTRAL ARC OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE; WAVE ON, WAVE ON. THE MAJESTIC RAINBOW; RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE INDIGO AND VIOLET. THE RAPTUROUS RAINBOW; THE GOLD AT THE END IS YOU. AND GIVING MY LIFE TO A RAINBOW LIKE YOU, THE EUPHORIC RAINBOW; YOUR SPIRIT, COMMINGLED WITH MY SPIRIT, SUBLIME MOMENTS, SHARING CHRONOS TIME; SUBLIME EONS, SHARING KAIROS TIME...
AS THE SKY ERUPTS WITH BURSTS OF THUNDER, AND THE HEAVILY-LADEN SUPERSATURATED CLOUDS DRENCH THE LANDSCAPE, I WATCH AMUSED AND CURIOUS FROM MY WINDOW FACING WEST; THE DISTANT HORIZON IS BRIGHT WITH SUN-LADEN CUMULUS FORMATION QUICKLY EVOLVING INTO CUMULONIMBUS DARK GRAY SWOLLEN WITH AQUA, AND EMPTYING UPON THE EARTH WITH POWER BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION. IF OUR METAPHYSICAL LIVES COULD BE SO ENRICHED WITH THE FULLNESS OF THIS TORRENTIAL SHOWER, OUR LIVES WOULD BE ATTUNED TO GAIA'S POWER.
A STUNNING JUXTAPOSITION OF BRADFORD PEAR AND WEEPING CHERRY
THIS EBULLIENTLY ON-FIRE FLAME AZALEA IS MOST ESPECIALLY FOR ALL THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE..
THE SOUND OF RAIN, THE SOUND OF MOTHER NATURE'S MUSIC; THE SOUND OF RAINDROPS LANDING ON TREE LEAVES AND BRANCHES; THE SOUND OF GAIA, HER MOISTURE FOR OUR EARTH. THE SOUNDS OF OUR AVIAN COHABITANTS, LUXURIATING IN GAIA'S BIRDSHOWER. THE SOUND OF RAIN, THE SOUND OF BLUEGRASS GROWING, THE SOUND OF HOSTA LEAVES ENGORGING, THE SOUND OF AZALEA FLOWERS BLOOMING, THE SOUND OF CREEKS CASCADING, THE SOUND OF MISTS MOVING, THE SOUND OF RAIN. GAIA'S LIFE-SUSTAINING GIFT, RAIN AND RAIN AND RAIN... AND THEN SUN AND SUN AND SUN... FLORA PHOTOSYNTHESIS SPRINGS, XYLEM FLOODED WITH AQUA, AND METABOLIC PATHWAYS SYNTHESIZE INTERMEDIATE METABOLITES AND COMPOUNDS, FORMING GLUCOSE AND SUCROSE, FLOWING INTO THE PHOLEM, TRANSLOCATED TO THE SUBTERRANEAN STORAGE STRUCTURES: STEM BASES, RHIZOMES, AND ROOTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS PROVIDES LIFE SUSTAINING FUEL, FIBER, BIOMASS FOR SYNTHETIC FUELS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURAL MATERIALS. GAIA ORCHESTRATES THE DANCE OF RAIN AND SUN AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS... CHLOROPHYLL-PIGMENTED CHLOROPLASTS, STOMATA FOR CARBON DIOXIDE ABSORPTION, AND ROOT SYSTEMS FOR AQUA AND NUTRIENT ABSORPTION. GAIA SUSTAINS LIFE.
THE POPLAR TREE LEAVES, EMERGING FROM A LONG WINTER'S REST, ARE SPRINGING AND THEIR BUDDING PRESENCE WILL SOON ERUPT INTO MOST ELEGANT AND FRAGRANT INFLORESCENCES. WHEN THE POPLAR FLOWER OPENS, ORANGE, YELLOW, AND GREEN SPRING FORTH REJOICING... AND MY HEART LEAPS AND THERE IS NOTHING ELSE IN THIS WORLD; EVOCATIVE BEAUTY, ANCESTRAL BEAUTY, ELEGANCE TIMES THE nTH DEGREE; AND I ENVISION THE PRIMORDIAL MOTHER EARTH, GAIA,THE GODDESS, DIG ? A GOLDEN-WINGED EAGLE IS PASSING HER WAY...
APRIL 24, 2018 WILDFLOWER SEEKER, IN THIS DECIDUOUS FOREST OF RED OAK LEAF HUMUS, SEARCHING FOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND EVOCATIVE PINK LADY'S SLIPPER; AND HERE IT IS RISING FROM THE SOIL; SMALL PEBBLES AND LAST YEAR'S DETRITUS AND STEMS ADJACENT TO IT'S HYPOCOTYL EMERGING AND THE EPICOTYL SEEKING SOL'S BLUES AND REDS AND THE RADICAL SEEKING MOISTURE AND THE BEING, THAT IS TURGOR-PRESSURED XYLEM AND PHOLEM VASCULATURE OF THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE LADY SLIPPER, IS SUPPING AND SLURPING PHOSPHOROUS IONS AND POTASSIUM IONS, AND NITROGEN COMPOUNDS, AND MAGNESIUM IONS AND CALCIUM IONS AND BORON, SILICON, AND ARGON; CHRONOS PASSES AND CHIROS SWINGS THROUGH ON A CHARIOT OF COMET TRAIL FIRE AND ICE WITH METAPHYSICAL MAGNETISM, AND MAJESTIC WAVELENGTHS OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM WAVE ON WAVE ON, AND GAIA GRACIOUSLY PROVIDES ABUNDANT RAINFALL, CASCADING A SLURRY OF NUTRIENTS AND MICROPEBBLES, AND LOAMY SOIL CRUMBS SURROUNDING THE EMERGING LIFEFORCE, THE WIDFLOWER SEEKER'S GLORIOUS PINK LADY SLIPPER.
THE SOUND OF RAIN, THE SOUND OF MOTHER NATURE'S MUSIC; THE SOUND OF RAINDROPS LANDING ON TREE LEAVES AND BRANCHES; THE SOUND OF GAIA, HER MOISTURE FOR OUR EARTH. THE SOUNDS OF OUR AVIAN COHABITANTS, LUXURIATING IN GAIA'S BIRDSHOWER. THE SOUND OF RAIN, THE SOUND OF BLUEGRASS GROWING, THE SOUND OF HOSTA LEAVES ENGORGING, THE SOUND OF AZALEA FLOWERS BLOOMING, THE SOUND OF CREEKS CASCADING, THE SOUND OF MISTS MOVING, THE SOUND OF RAIN. GAIA'S LIFE-SUSTAINING GIFT, RAIN AND RAIN AND RAIN...
YOUR SOUL IN THE WIND MARCH 2, 2018
IF YOU COULD SEE WHAT I'M WATCHING YOUR MIND WOULD BE BLOWN BY THE WIND; THE FULL MOON SETTING IN THE WEST AND THE MASSIVE WHITE CLOUD FORMS ZOOMING ACROSS THE HORIZON AND YOUR FACE IN THE MOON AND YOUR SOUL IN THE WIND AND YOUR BEAUTY IN THE CLOUDS AND EACH CLOUD HAS A DIFFERENT SHAPE AND EACH SHAPE IS YOUR ETHEREAL PRESENCE IN MY LIFE. AND YOUR LIFE IN MY LIFE IS THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT I HAVE EVER RECEIVED. AND BRINGING YOU JOY AND HAPPINESS,, BRINGS ME JOY AND HAPPINESS. MAY IT BE SO, THIS DAY.
SPRING IS COMING On February 17, 2018 The bluebird family gathered and looked warily at the robin strutting in the yard.
HAPPY SPRING
ON APRIL 21, 2018
A RUFFED GROUSE STRUTTED ACROSS MY PARKING LOT AND PERCHED ATOP RED OAK STUMP, THEN VIGOROUS WING FLAPPING BEGAN, AND 'DRUMMING' WAS HEARD BY THE RUFFED GROUSE HEN; AND AS SHE APPROACHED, HIS CEREMONIOUS TAIL FEATHERS SPREAD WIDE RELEASING ENDOGENOUS PHEROMONES SIGNALING TO HER, THAT CUDDLING WOULD SOON BEGIN...
Robert's Mostyum Cooking Show August 7, 2007 Pssghetti's Restaurant Blowing Rock, NC Executive Chef Ben Allison
AUGUST 15, 2006 MELANIE'S FOOD FANTASY BOONE, NC EXECUTIVE CHEF MELANIE PATTERSON
The wind swirls the brook sings and the streams burst their banks. Her Name is as the sea foam flows and the rainbow's pot of gold. As the tide ebbs and flows, the shore's sand forms a sound singing GAIA
Sunbeams radiate across the mountainscape dappled scenes of windblown fields and forests, illuminated habitats amidst the overarching oktas. Starshine and Lunashine at the zenith, gravitational and polar influx bursts, trillying and nillywilling vibrational electron bursts, positrons, neutrinos, gamma rays, and photons, Clearing Skies and freshening breezes scour, the enervating cold away... Have a Sunny Day...
WINTER GOBSMACK LAND January 22, 2018
Hazel-brown chestnut leaves fluttering in the breeze, the deciduous forest is nut-brown and a crimson-gray pall lies over the land, during this, the ides of winter. JOYOUSLY, in the midst of this milleu, verdant conifers and laurel and ivy slicks persist. Gobsmacked moments of awe, as hope SPRINGS from this paradigm shift.
GAIA's EYES are CERULEAN WATERFALLS January 21, 2018
Cerulean is the hue I share with YOU. Azure sky in HER EYE an ethereal waterfall crescendo. Lapis lazuli, the GAIA Crystal, sparking in YOU Spirit & Vision, Wisdom & Truth.
Alluring Tulip Poplar
Rime Ice on Red Oak Branches
GAIA'S SMILE January 13, 2018
In the snow there are ice crystals And as the sun shines on them their reflection is as GAIA's SMILE. In the snow there are frozen particles composed of water molecules and they are composed of hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms and they are composed of quarks and all these components are complete in GAIA'S SMILE
Venus Rising, GAIA Sighing January 9, 2018
The sky is alive with emerging starlight and the horizon is expansive. Orion over the Earth all night, GAIA encircles the globe and richness of the soil is richness of HER soul. Early in the morning, Venus rising in the Eastern sky and GAIA sighs...
This Elegant Snow & White Pine Needle Wreath is for YOU.
GAIA SPEAKS
Snow flying sideways from the Northwest Polar vortex force; HER voice is as the thundering wind; wolves & coyotes howling, screech owls trilling, gravitational forces jag ripples in the cosmic fabric. As the dawn biosphere awakens, GAIA speaks, all life rejoices, tectonic plates shift, volcanoes erupt in the Western Pacific and the wind screams GAIA.
A Stunningly Exquisite Flame Azalea For All THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
Mountain Top Woodland on a Fall Afternoon October 25, 2017 Ebullient moments and effervescent laughter, song birds eloquently proclaim diverse and elaborate pleasurable harmonies. The sounds of leaves and acorns falling, chipmunks and squirrels scampering, a red-crested woodpecker's call and a ruffed grouse's drumming. Your elegant face, highlighted by sun rays streaming through the canopy, is to me, the most alluring treasure within this mountain top wooded sea.
Rime Ice-Covered Blue Ridge Parkway Scene at Heffner Gap (Milepost 326) March 4, 2014 THIS IS ESPECIALLY FOR LEAHANNE & JOE
GROK & ROLL MUSIC
LoveTones is a concept album in progress.
The emotional feelings a person has for another, during the beginning of a romantic relationship, is metaphysically captured in each track of LoveTones.
LoveTones: Birds on the Wing Recorded November 22, 2018 Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: Romantic Crescendo Recorded July 30, 2017 Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: Tune Me in Groovy Goddess Recorded May 7, 2017 Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: You are a Rainbow Recorded April 29, 2017 Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: Holding Hands Recorded December 2, 2016 Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: Her Name is Swirling With The Gusty South Wind Recorded February 4, 2018 Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: Beach Thong Baby Recorded November 18, 2016 Toast & Jam Studio
LoveTones: Peach Jam Recorded August 27, 2016 Toast & Jam Studio
Daylight is dawning and snow is flying sideways and the south wind is swirling snow and gusty winds again. But my home is warm and I'm sitting by my fire, daydreaming of a LADY; and HER name is swirling with the gusty south wind and HER name is flying sideways with the snow and HER name is GAIA
I HAVE DISCOVERED A MOST ELEGANT TREASURE, THERE IS A LADY ON THIS EARTH WITHOUT MEASURE. AND THERE IS A VAST AND EXPANDING UNIVERSE, FILLED WITH IMMEASURABLE CELESTIAL WONDERS; NONE SO DAZZLING OR RADIANT AS THE LUMINESCENT & ALLURING GAIA
The Tortoise and the Pear
Sweet-N-Tart Salsa Tomatillo, Jalapeno Pepper, Sweet Onion, and Sweet Mini-Peppers ready for roasting in a 375 degree F oven for 25 minutes. Place roasted ingredients into a food processor and make the salsa.
Robert's Mostyum Cooking Show June 21, 2005 Casa Rustica Boone, NC Executive Chef John Goodson
Rock on a Roll Recipes Rock on a Roll is a radio cooking program which was broadcast on WASU at Appalachian State University
Robert's Most Yum Duxelle Stuffed Poblano Pepper
Duxelle is the French term for a mixture of sauteed mushrooms and shallots.
Ingredients
1 large poblano pepper 1 large shallot 3 large shiitake mushroom caps 1/2 cup Monterey jack cheese splash of white wine 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
Procedure
Remove stem and by coring, remove seeds from poblano pepper. Steam the pepper until soft (approximately 10 minutes). Dice the shallot. Julienne the shiitakes. Saute shallots and shiitakes in the olive oil. Add splash of white wine. Remove the duxelle mixture and place into a bowl. Add the cheese and mix well. Stuff the pepper with this mixture.
Enjoy Robert's Most Yum Duxelle Stuffed Poblano Pepper!
Robert's Most Yum Chicken Style Wheat Meat & Dumplings
Note. wheat meat is wheat gluten also known as seitan.
dumpling mix 2 eggs (I use egg replacer mix of potato starch & tapioca flour) 1/2 cup fine dice sweet onion 1 teaspoon baking powder (aluminum free) 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme 1/2 cup milk (I use rice milk) 1.5 cups all purpose flour
2 cups of julienned chicken style wheat meat 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 quart of vegetable stock 1.5 cups of diced onions 1.5 cups of diced green bell pepper
Procedure
Place all seasoning mix ingredients in a bowl. Add 1/4 cup of the flour to the bowl and mix well. Add chicken style wheat meat and coat pieces with mix.
Put the veggie stock in a sauce pan and bring it to a simmer.
Saute the chicken style wheat meat in the olive oil until lightly browned.
Dumpling prep Mix onions with eggs (or egg replacer) and whisk until foamy. Add baking powder and whisk it in. Add milk, salt, red pepper, and thyme and mix well. Slowly whisk in the flour.
Place tablespoonfuls of dumpling mix onto a steamer rack in a pot of boiling water for 10 minutes.
Remove dumplings and allow them to cool.
Add the onion and bell pepper to the simmering stock. Add the wheat meat to the simmering stock. To thicken the stock, remove 1/2 cup of stock and mix with 1/4 cup of flour. Then return the mixture to the saucepan. Add the dumplings and simmer for two minutes.
Enjoy Robert's Most Yum Chicken Style Wheat Meat & Dumplings!