Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Happy Birthday Austin

Many memories and much love today, October 12, Dad's birthday.
The dock and the boat are in. The garden's put to bed.
The leaves are changing. You taught us well....

Saturday, June 12, 2010

KC Joins Austin

It is only fitting that a photo of KC be added to the collection here, after leaving the homestead to find his final resting place. We are sure he is tending the heavenly gardens at Austin's side, while keeping an eye on 7 Tree Pond.

























KC on the dock, July 2008

Sunday, May 16, 2010

New Pictures

This is a Chestnut tree (July 2002) in full bloom in Dexter, Maine, sent by Chris Wolfe. Chris and Austin were great friends working together on the Appalachian Trail for 15 years.

Gorgeous!!




And here's a candid shot, discovered recently while Ms. Blogger was looking for a picture of her mother-in-law :-) Picture taken in June 1977, at the aforementioned Blogger's wedding.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Remembering Austin, One Year Later

Welcome back, and thank you for visiting this site again, especially today. In addition to the articles and pictures already here, we are providing two new texts for reflection. Please feel free to leave comments for us if you wish--we'd love to hear from you.

The first poem below is in Austin's workshop with a collection of correspondence and notes. The second one was discovered by chance.


THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS


When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the
water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with
forethought
of grief.
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light.
For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.


— Wendell Berry

GOOD TIMBER


The tree that never had to fight,
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out on the open plain,
And always got it’s share of rain,

Never became a forest king,
But lives and dies a scrawny thing.
The man who never had to toil,
To gain and farm his patch of soil,
Who never had to win his share,
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never became a manly man,

But lived and died as he began.
Good timber does not grow in ease,
The stronger the wind, the stronger trees
The farther sky, the greater the length
The more the storm, the more the strength,
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In tree and men good timbers grow.

Where thickest lies the forest growth
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold counsel with the stars
Whose broken branches show the scars
This is the common law of life.


—Douglas Malloch

Austin was surely a man of good timber.

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Friday, October 9, 2009

Happy Birthday Austin!

A short spin on the sparkling waters of 7 Tree Pond in honor of your upcoming birthday on October 12.


Wednesday, July 8, 2009

A few candid shots from May 30

You can click on most images to enlarge them.

Gary Weed, Austin's nephew


Chet Weed and John Thomas (Austin's brother-in-law)

Nikki Thomas, (Austin's sister) Cheryl Thomas, Bunny Weed

Photo from deck to gardens


Lakeview Cemetery, Union Maine Military Stone

Austin's mother's stone (Johnson) and Austin's stone with loon.


Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Pictures from May 30

The approaching storm, which fortunately held off until everyone was back at the Jones' house.


















View of the departing storm from the Jones' deck.




If you look hard, you might see the double rainbow.