The dragonfly

This past week was spent hanging out at Bruinslair. God I love that place. The mornings were spent helping Bill and Pat build a new wing of the outdoor kitchen. I sometimes forget how much I love manual labor (of the construction variety) - especially when it is outdoors.

The afternoons were spent reading, sitting on the new tree deck in meditation or daydreaming, swimming, hiking, picking blackberries and napping. The evenings consisted of saunas, night swims, campfires and just sitting outside under a big, clear sky watching the moon rise and travel across the night sky.

There are, of course, many many bugs in the outdoors. Many of which I actually like. The dragonfly's are out of control right now - they are everywhere and I could watch them for hours as I lay on my back on a floating recliner in the pond.

One day, when I was working on stripping the bark off some logs, I pulled my car up to have some music while I worked. Not long after hitting 'play' on a Medeski, Martin and Wood CD, this huge dragonfly came flying up to my car. It hung out in the window for a little while and then started flying around my car, stopping to hover in different windows. At first I thought it was just a coincidence. But, the dragonfly just stayed there, not leaving the car. I decided to see what would happen if I turned the music off ... after a minute or so, he (she?) flew away. When I started the music up again, he flew back and stayed until I finally parked my car again and turned off the music.

Who knew? Some Dragonfly's like jazz.

Hmh.

This weekend I am going to make Blackberry pie. Yes, you heard me: muther-fuckin' BLACK BERRY PIE! Whoh-Nelly! Am I going to be in pie-heaven. I brought back two huge containers of hand-picked blackberries from the 'lair. And the blackberry season has barely started. It might almost be worth driving up there again in two weeks just to get some more. Of course, picking blackberries is a very dangerous activity and I have the thorn holes and scrapes to prove it. Still ... a little pain for some home-made blackberry pie is worth it. Maybe I'll make the second one with peaches and blackberries!

Pie anyone?