“Damariscotta is for spellers“ • So many things I never getting around to posting. The first picture was just a few weeks ago. Which reminded me of the second one from back in March, of a car I see around town all the time and which always makes me laugh. I tell people to mumble it with confidence, or just try to say it with as few syllables as possible; that’s basically the way to pronounce it. And don’t miss that perfectly fitting “Bigfoot stole my lobster” bumper sticker in the upper right corner.

Presented without comment:

Wanting to see and to hear the man himself, I went back and watched Bill Moyer’s 2013 interview with Wendell Berry. He was, to use his own words, free, free, to acknowledge the preciousness of precious things. He cannot be thanked enough for that witness.

Dispatches from the front

“The young boy climbed a tree”

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you talk smack.

The Old Man Climbs a Tree

How the mighty have fallen • Baldpate Mountain via Table Rock and AT

When God gives you a day to hike a mountain, you wake up early.