 Denver, those rectangular silhouettes rising out of the ground close to the lower left side of the photo, was originally founded as Montana City in the Kansas Territory in 1858. According to the 2005 census, it now has a population of 2,359,994.
All the best,
Scott
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Sleeping in the Forest
By Mary Oliver
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.
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DEAD MAN'S CURVE (2.23.07) |
DEAD MAN'S CURVE
By Jan & Dean
(factoids listed after lyrics)
I was cruisin' in my Stingray late one night
when an XKE pulled up on the right
and rolled down the window of his shiny new Jag
and challenged me then and there to a drag.
I said, "You're on, buddy, my mill's runnin' fine.
Let's come off the line, now, at Sunset and Vine.
But I'll go you one better if you've got the nerve.
Let's race all the way to
Dead Man's Curve."
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ONE WAY FLATIRON (2.22.07) |
The above peak is known as the first Flatiron, because it sort of looks like an old clothes iron, and it's the first of a string of similar-looking peaks that sit on the edge of Boulder. You can climb it. You can choose from routes up to 1000 feet in length that vary from 5.0 to 5.10d. I have no idea what that means. If you don't either but want to find out, click here.
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CLEMENTINE SMILE (2.21.07) |
A clementine is a cross between a sweet orange and a Chinese mandarine. Folklore says an Algerian monk found a mutated mandarine in his citrus garden one day. Botanist say they simply migrated from Asia. Regardless, 'tis the season to eat a clementine, which are best from December until the beginning of March.
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PINK IN THE DRINK (2.20.07) |
Designer Don Featherstone created the plastic pink flamingo in 1957. Today, plastic pink flamingo connoisseurs will only buy those with his signature on the rump, anything less would be ungenuine. However, Union Products, which made Don's fake-feathered friends, stopped making them in 2006. So, this one here might be a collector's item. I didn't bother to walk into the icy creek to look at his ass and find out though.
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CORRAL HAIKU
Happily unused
it once broke wild horses.
It hated that job.
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When enough light bounces off a substance, i.e. - a puddle of snow melt, it allows the old human eye to see the reflection of nearby objects, i.e. - the marquee of the Boulder Theater. This has been your 4th grade science lesson for the day.
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When it feels like 23 degrees outside, there is really no better way to keep your hands warm than a good, old, ratty pair of socks. He also happened to be wearing shorts. Hypothermia, anyone?
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HENRY PHONE HOME (2.14.07) |
Granted, this isn't some artsy-fartsy shot and, in a break from PotD tradition, it was not taken in the last 24 hours. But the weather sucks outside and I honestly just don't want to go out here hunting for a new pic. =) Still, this photo does bring to mind a certain moment of movie magic from 1982 starring an extra-terrestrial whose head was shaped like a mutated football.
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Cold Poem
Cold now.
Close to the edge. Almost
unbearable. Clouds
bunch up and boil down
from the north of the white bear.
This tree-splitting morning
I dream of his fat tracks,
the lifesaving suet.
I think of summer with its luminous fruit,
blossoms rounding to berries, leaves,
handfuls of grain.
Maybe what cold is, is the time
we measure the love we have always had, secretly,
for our own bones, the hard knife-edged love
for the warm river of the I, beyond all else; maybe
that is what it means the beauty
of the blue shark cruising toward the tumbling seals.
In the season of snow,
in the immeasurable cold,
we grow cruel but honest; we keep
ourselves alive,
if we can, taking one after another
the necessary bodies of others, the many
crushed red flowers.
– Mary Oliver
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BOULDER AT DUSK (2.12.07) |
On the left side of the photo is the University of Colorado's Folsom Stadium, which has enough seats for 53,750 butts. In the foreground is downtown Boulder. Roughly to the right of middle are some university dorms, the highest buildings in Boulder. And that ribbon of light just right of the dorms is the traffic jam headed to Denver and all areas in between along U.S. highway 36.
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Minor Chords
Minor chords
those daggered notes
that impale your heart
` their stems
hung
with
rocks
seeming to drag you down
exist instead so that in those black gaps of the clock
when the world’s pulse feels smothered by snowdrifts
and you cannot hear the footsteps of a single soul
not even your own
you catch your breath suddenly as if
hit
by ice-cold water and realize,
“I am not alone.”
–Scott Schumaker
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You see, I want a lot,
Maybe I want it all:
the darkness of each endless fall,
the shimmering light of each ascent.
So many are alive who don't seem to care.
Casual, easy, they move in the world
as thought untouched.
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If Americans can stay focused and keep those corkscrews turning, the United States is on target to put down more grape-based intoxication than any other country in the world by 2008. We're talking a solid quarter of all wine produced worldwide being guzzled within the United States. On the downside, Americans are wine suckers apparently, because the average bottle of vino in the U.S. costs twice what it does in France and three times what it does in Italy.
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This could be an black and white aerial photo of Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National Park, which has the tallest sand dunes in North America - up to 750 feet tall - and contains roughly 4.8 billion cubic meters of sand. But it's not. It's a full-color shot of a three-foot-high snowdrift. Snowdrifts and sand dunes are created in basically the same way though. Light snow or sand is carried by the wind until the wind's speed is reduced, usually by a stationary object. In the case of the Great Sand Dunes that stationary object would be the Sangre de Cristo mountains. In the case of this snowdrift it was a balcony wall.
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According to that wonder of accurate knowledge, Wikipedia, fresh white stuff like this often has a water density of around 12 percent, sometimes, sort of, kind of, more or less. But regardless of it's actual water density while falling, the snow will eventually compress under it's own weight until it has a water density of around 33 percent. Everybody go, "Ohhh! Ahhh!"
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This would be the frontal driving aparatus for an almost BRAND NEW Electra cruiser bicycle that's been locked to a post outside for at least the past month, left to face the cold, snowy inclemental weather all alone. Where is the humanity?!
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