Mike Freeman

@mfreeman

Rhode Island. Author of Neither Mountain Nor River (Riddle Brook) and Drifting: Two Weeks on the Hudson

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Mike Freeman@mfreeman· 18d

He is Risen!!

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· 24d

Nietzche listening to Good Vibrations:

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· 25d

No word for the poor footballers?

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· 27d

OH COME ON!!!!

Michael Douglass in a pink bathrobe and black ski cap from Wonder Boys.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· 28d

These guys featured it in their bookclub:

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Jul 5

Vindicated!!

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Jun 24

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Jun 23

Who Ishmael really is might be the great American imposter question, and too bad it’s not film, because we all know who America’s greatest fugitives are:

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Jun 22

New Yorker cartoon with dad sitting in chair looking at eager child. Dad says, “So, how go the formative years?”

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Jun 15

If Wyatt was Bluesky and really was retired:

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Jun 5

All the farm’s fallow fields droop with purple vetch now, in shape looking so much like herring spawn attached to sunken limbs.

Stalks of deep purple flowers among tall, green grass.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Jun 5

Flushed a hen mallard while weed whacking a stonewall. Looked but didn’t look long. Flagged it off and won’t go near for some time.

Clutch of ten duck eggs in veiled sun, brown leaves and down for lining.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· May 29

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· May 28

5:17 peekaboo. Saunderstown, RI.

Sunrise over distant trees and bay water.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· May 27

Keep an eye out for turtle mums scoping nest sites this time of year, especially on roads. Almost ruined this poor soul with a mower today.

Black-shelled turtle in green grass. Yellow streaks on face.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· May 25

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· May 20

Hoo dog!!

Big white, brown flecked mushroom shaped like a saddle growing from a vertical tree trunk.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· May 17

The Road of Roads with the Songs of Songs. Long walk with our oldest today. 14 warblers and tons of other stuff. Medicine.

Dirt road lined with mountain laurel and leafing out hardwoods.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· May 16

And now a word from Third Way’s sponsor:

Jesse Plemmons militia man in Covil War.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· May 15

Our freshman daughter’s history teacher is prone to lengthy digressions, putting them a full century behind the other history teachers, so we of course call him Uncle Colm.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· May 11

The happy months. Walk our oldest endlessly in such places. Birds thickening up, tons of song. Willimantic, CT

Paved bike path through early spring foliage.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· May 3

Could always just watch Gumball.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Apr 30

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Apr 28

Back to the farm this week. Catbird yesterday, two orioles and yellow warblers today. The Flood cometh.

Large apple tree greening up along stonewall, mown fields on either side. Blue sky.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Apr 28

Counterpoint:

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Apr 23

Three days in Philadelphia for the kids spring break. Beautiful city.

Philadelphia skyline from Pennsylvania Avenue. Trees in bloom, blue sky.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Apr 20

We all know who really invented the sandwich, and when:

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Apr 19

My favorite yellow birch trio. Early yet, but the woods are waking. Titmice and towhees calling, saw a garter and a couple mourning cloaks, blueberries leafing. Just a bit more earth tilt and we’re there.

Three yellow birch trunks in thick forest, trail going between them.

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Apr 8

Mike Freeman@mfreeman· Apr 6

Funny/true. Just read it ironically. This passage toward the end (underlined) when the entire crew has resigned itself feels like it was written this morning about the GOP: