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goodbye to all that
dart 2
dart
green star bag
canvas
Porthole Restaurant 2
Porthole Restaurant
memorial bench
yellow ribbons
Once Sparkling
West River Road
Cowboy Karl (in color) 2
Cowboy Karl (in color)
Barflies
moored 2
moored
big spoon
Upriver and the Gap: A year later
Picked
Cherry-Time
closing the gap #2
Kodachrome Canyon: Kolb Studio
Kodachrome Canyon: Ledge
Kodachrome Canyon: Bluff
Kodachrome Canyon: Tree 2
Kodachrome Canyon: Tree
melt
ahhh
oooohhh
winter sunflower
autumn’s last sentinels
bundled up
Riverview
boo lights (color)
night pumpkins
Granddad and Boys and Train
Engine #3
climbing
brake gal
uphill
fueling up
sunflower study #2
fresh
berries
often is his gold complexion dimmed
after all this time
Yellow
quartet
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
Thy slender stem
full of stars
Long on a weary vine
fenced
but by accident
folds
rockbound 2
rockbound
light tower
Portland Head
I spy
Wanna lobstah?
portal
twine
such sweet and wholesome hours
all my doors are open
a perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence
the distant bridge
through fog all night
fishing fleet at morning
sword
and we shall light upon some lonely shore
yellow shovel
cloud mountains
perimeter
dig
to the boats!
The Short, Sweet Summer Begins
mist
morning fog
from the ferry station
under the bridge
approaching the bridge
evening
calm
waiting for the 1814
bay curves
dawn swimmer
building the stairs
artist’s rendering
blue sky watcher
landing approach 2
landing approach
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
winter field 3
winter field 2
winter field
frost
curlicue
mitch brinkman
Not a breath of wild air
The Mind’s internal heaven
dawning
fair creature of an hour
A partner in your sorrow’s mysteries
this rope would twine
Anything you care to bind
not so easily undone
wide load
get on the bus
do not block
tubes
forbearance
golden threads
bound up at length for harvesting
at the fall of the leaf
Laid on it for a covering
tank
Ryan
tall
over the bridge
around the bend
model city 2
model city
up periscope
U-505
Foucault’s Pendulum
at the Golden Nugget
Magnificent Mile
Under the Runestone
beatific
so poured in and out
The flickering shadows have not answered
and then moves on
coarse and strong and cunning
Gotham
Tara Hill
His Honor
Martin
cláirseach
St. Paul Hotel
tiddly up up
Mad scientists in training
For you, a leg
big blue
All I want for Christmas
the weather makers
red rubber ball
levitation
morris dance
fireworks
Texaco Ahead
undertow
surf
green red yellow
barnacles
silhouette
portage
daisy patch
path through the daisies
hoses
Copper Kettle
Long Ride Home
Crucial Skills
Copper Dome
Blur
Sue
sunflower x4
white on white
purpurea
yellow buttons
purple
daisy
before the fall
Sunflower #4
Sunflower #3
Sunflower #2
Sunflower #1
Farmer’s Market – Pepper Plants
Farmer’s Market – Arms Full
Farmer’s Market – Dad and Peter and Jack
hanging the feeder
Dowling Garden – Sunflowers Again
Dowling Garden – Vines
Dowling Garden – Sunflowers
Dowling Garden – Maize
Dowling Garden – shed
Dowling Garden – under cover
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On the Beach – Drop Zone
On the Beach – Fresh Cut Fries
On the Beach – Fried Dough
On the Beach – Shadow
On the Beach – Pier
On the Beach – Umbrella
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Yellow Goose
Penguin Love
The Train Home
semis
maerC ecI
Decisions
Snaps
Suckers
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Vienna Beef
Wiscasset Gull
Lobster Shack
twins’ loop
catch and release
Jack and Peter
elbows
flag and hill
ship’s wheel
sandwich shop
sun splits it open
the wind shifts
by the same name
a single breath
is lost in it
so dense and white
reflected pier
knots
Morning Pier
Shumway Dawn
leave ‘em dancing
The Girl with the K1000
le moment decisif
cha-cha
swing
jitterbug
waiting
Hera, Athena, Aphrodite
Why all this toil and trouble?
There’s more of wisdom in it
Close up those barren leaves
a world of ready wealth
his first sweet evening yellow
one impulse from a vernal wood
Our meddling intellect
daisies
when the evening is spread out against the sky
lilly pads
loons
Yellow Paddle
Afloat
Voyageurs
Marcie’s bench
little bird
rail silos
silo dusk
in the yard
long haul
Opie Pond
striped #2
striped
purple
jonquils
A Model World
with the perfume strong I love
in the deep heart’s core
Powderhorn Lake
May Day Banners
Dragon Boats
Yellow Trumpets
Yellow Dragon
spoon redux
Basilica in the Background
red
billowy
make a wish
Loring Park Pond
Loring Park Bridge
and fill the earth
