Front Porch Indiana: I Was Here First

Sunday, September 9, 2007

I Was Here First

Lucy and Ethel, a couple of our farm animals hard at work.

4 comments:

Renee said...: Oh that is a GREAT shot. I love their names. Lucy looks just like our Candy.; September 9, 2007 at 9:17 PM
Anna said...: What a wonderful picture - thanks for sharing!; September 17, 2007 at 1:26 AM
freaked out 'n small said...: LOL! This is a great shot!; August 31, 2010 at 2:02 PM
freaked out 'n small said...: LOL! What a great picture. They are too cute!; August 31, 2010 at 2:02 PM

Favorite Quotes

"Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more."

- Tasha Tudor

"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

- Albert Einstein

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go."

- Oscar Wilde

Favorite Poetry

The creaking silence of age.

I like Old.

Great Depression

worn-in (not worn-out)

favorite quilt

classic car.

I like the way Old feels.

Sheets washed a thousand times

frayed around the stitching

busting from stories.

I like the way Old sounds.

Creaky wooden floors

heaters that pop and snap

doors that slam like they really mean it!

I like the way Old looks.

chipped paint

worn corners

rust

not from neglect or carelessness, but from use.

I'd live in an Old house

with a big Old front porch.

One that heaves to tell me someone is home

and echos of little feet running across it.

I like Old.

~Holy Glasgow