Elizabeth Westmark (bethwestmark)
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Thanks for listening. I'm going silent for awhile. Email still works. Even snail mail. Even telephone. Possibly smoke signals. Love, B.
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The old chocolate lab closed her eyes and licked the air while Buck massaged her with liquid dish soap. It was love on a warm day.
Friday, 22-Jan-10 13:09:23 UTC from web -
Southern whitetails glissade on the ice like skaters at Rockefeller Center, shyly wearing their newly-grown shaggy fur coats.
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Basso profundo owl must have been drawn by the small circle of light in my midnight study. So close I arose to see if he wanted to come in.
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@morningporch "red as a stop sign" -- wonderful image; makes me smile.
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Tongue-tied in a gregarious fiction class, I stutter and think of the woods.
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@pathways Thanks, Dave. I am surprised at how well these old photos are scanning (& on a cheap HP Photosmart C4580).
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@pathways Remarkable photo.
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A convention of prosperous robins gathers for opening ceremonies in the frosty clearing.
Monday, 04-Jan-10 13:02:36 UTC from web -
I sit astride two horses. The 20th I rode in on; the 21st will carry my small ploughshare through the valley farmlands to the ridgetop.
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Bam! Bam! Bam! Country folk shoot up the neighboring trees with their Christmas pistols. The deer will be hiding out today.
Sunday, 27-Dec-09 13:10:12 UTC from web -
Teetering on the bed's edge, curled into a paperclip, her pulse sounds loud; antiphon to the tiny kettle drum pounding her skull's hollow.
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@stoney First story I ever had published was written laid up on couch with broken metatarsal. I'm just sayin'. .
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@jasonriedy Yum. I just put some pinquitos on to soak.
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Treadmilling, I catch up on qarrtsiluni podcasts. Ten deer kick up their heels outside the window. It just don't get no better than this.
Friday, 11-Dec-09 14:21:52 UTC from web -
@morningporch oh dear. Back to the ophthalmologist. . .
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I meant "lower case" q in qaartsiluni!
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Angry-acting developers & puffed up County staffers at the table. Maps in the middle. Lonely bird dog me on the sidelines, taking notes.
Tuesday, 08-Dec-09 12:51:36 UTC from web -
Silver rain sidewinder zigzags the glass doors. One persistent drip wormholes its way inside: sloosh, sloosh, sloosh. Who can sleep?
Wednesday, 02-Dec-09 12:24:11 UTC from web -
A cloud-seller came by offering 2 for 1. A musical one with lightning in it was his come-on deal. "I'll just keep my old ones, thanks."
Tuesday, 01-Dec-09 13:05:34 UTC from web