Wednesday, September 3, 2008

New Daily-ish "Feature"

I realized as I unpacked my things and set everything in its place that I am a weird guy. On that note, I'm introducing a new daily (as much as possible) post. I have a great little book entitled "One Hundred Poems From The Japanese". The interesting thing about the anthology is that it specifically avoids haiku in order to show the breadth of Japanese poetry. Hopefully some of you will appreciate the simplicity as much as I have. With that:

I passed by the beach
At Tago and saw
The snow falling, pure white,
High on the peak of Fuji.

-Yambe no Akahito

Monday, September 1, 2008

Haircut City, America

Aubri got her hair cut:


So did I:

Lily Hemingway

She is a phenom. She simply picked up a pen and started writing...a novel:


She even help Phil cook ribs. Don't worry, he doesn't hold her like that all of the time.


It did remind me of this a bit, though:

Friday, August 29, 2008

Small town life?

If this is small town life, it is for the birds...

We (the entire village of Bancroft) were serenaded this morning by marching band practice:


This is what time it was. I would like to note that our dear friend the Sun is just getting up too:


I was thoroughly unimpressed:

Piggy Hale

The red area (hopefully) represents the enormity of the "piece" of cake Phil ate the other night:


Lily, too, was shocked:

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Saturday, August 23, 2008

IIIIIIIII Love a Parade

Last week I attended my first plains state parade/fair in Rosalie, NE:


There were classic cars like this Charger:


and old corn mills:


(Final product):


Aubri playing mommy: