May 20, 2010. Thursday.
Situation: Work tonight, don’t get around to taking Mway out until about 2:30. My walking socks are still damp from two days ago; they stink, and really need to be washed.
State of the Path: It would have been a good day to wash those socks and hang them on the line: warm and sunny. But I am in a hurry; don’t take any side paths. I realize today that the white flowers I thought were coming out on the multiflora are actually coming out on the blackberry runners – big white flowers. See that I will have to bring along clippers again sometime soon; the honeysuckles are still the main obstruction to the path these days. Poke the “pro-quality” stick into the snake hole; it doesn’t go in very far. Mway stops at the edge of the creek – what does she see, other than a few birds (unidentifiable) fly by? Coming up from the swale to bug land, I realize that the tree growing up right ahead of me is an oak – looking like the other young oaks around, a lone oak in this area of red willows and maple saplings.
State of the Creek: Water hardly moving at all today, trickling among the rocks, which are white and dry in the sun.
The Fetch: Already mentioned “pro-quality” stick. Mway treats it like any other. She’s full of energy, running after the big stick and bringing it back the full length of the clearing, more times than I care to count. Three big black birds (hawks?) fly out of a walnut tree by the summer house.
2 comments:
But to recognize the article and noun combination in the first place, don’t you have to recognize the linear order of words?
But I wasn’t always just reading up and down. I was looking for words I already knew and I was constantly finding those articles close beside them, and this alone directs you into reading in a linear fashion. Besides, these weren’t the only word combinations I was finding. M.
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