First lake swim of the year - May 1st

Finally jumped in yesterday and swam for a bit. Wasn't too bad (64 degrees). I figured after swimming at Laguna a couple of weeks ago that this just needed to be done. So-git-er-done-I-did. Plus with the lake so muddy I got a bonus mud treatment for my aging skee-in.

Good way to celebrate the Haymarket massacre.

First Dogwood of 2008

First Dogwood of 2008
Originally uploaded by Charlissimo

Here's the first Dogwood on my property this year. A bunch have been blooming in town for the last week or two I assume due to the heat island effect.

Chaco Canyon, September 2007

With slipstream Psilocybin silliness
Hank and I ascend the Anasazi trail
toward Pueblo Alto.

Step by giggling step;
rocks breathing in rhythm
with our high-altitude pant.

Endless cairns make pass
(some need adjustment, most not)
their oblique implications
we disunderstand.

Humans lurk ahead
out of psychic range.
We ignore them.

Nuevo Pueblo looms,
framed by teasing thunderstorms.

My stomach hurts.
I have to shit.

Perception is gnosis

Or as Groucho Marx said on his deathbed: "All you ever really have is what you've managed to pull out of your ass."

Andy Fucking Dick

I've always hated Andy Dick but never knew why. Now I know.

First firefly sighting of the year

No picture. Just recording for posterity.

Blah somebug.

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