apples and pumpkins

out in the country today

plums

The Lemon Car

Mr. Josh and Mr. Mudd

in

THE LEMON CAR

drawings by

Rustle Frost

Lord Buckley's Eyes

I wrote Michael Monteleone care of

 http://www.lordbuckley.com/ that I was making

a Lord Buckley puppet, but I didn’t know

what color the eyes should be. All the photos

I’ve seen of Buckley are black and white.

Michael soon replied, “I do not know the color of

His Lordship's eyes. It is a great question

that just never came up before. I have put out

an inquiry with a couple of people that

I know that knew Lord Buckley.

I will let you know what they say.” In the meantime,

over the Labor Day weekend, I constructed

the puppet. As I was painting him, I just had

a feeling his eyes were brown, so that’s

the color they became. Then, on September 5^th

in the Wilson Library, Lord Buckley

performed ‘Satellite Blip Flip’ to a stunned audience.

Michael wrote and told me, “I think your performance

sounds like it was right in keeping with a number

of His Lordship's own presentations. I think

he stunned as many people as he inspired.”

He continued, “I talked with a very reliable

source and he said definitely brown eyes.”

Although he admitted the person he spoke to

met Lord Buckley in 1960 and had a keen

memory of his eyes, Michael later received

a phone call from a performer who shared

the stage with his Lordship in 1957,

and remembers him having blue eyes.

So for the time being, Lord Buckley’s eyes

remain a mystery.

Secrets of The Mermaid Translation

If you've read my book The Mermaid Translation

(and by now, who hasn't?) you may have wondered

about the mysterious sculptures on September Hill.

I guess this is where I got the idea for that...

this lone strange spigot-thing in the woods...

p.s Here's an advertisement from

a 1975 Bellingham Herald newspaper:

rays

two pictures from this morning

from the notebooks

Working on Selected Correspondence of

Kenneth Patchen took up much of my

writing mind over the last year, however

going through my past 3 notebooks

I’ve been able to find 33 poems and

stories to include in a forthcoming

hand-sewn book. I just need a

couple more photographs.

2 books

sunflowers

these sunflower pictures from yesterday

reminded me of a story in my old magazine

from PIE IN THE SKY #44

http://pieintheskymagazine.blogspot.com/

Prehistoric Stapler

this is a little movie I made today

on my walk in the woods


for a similar photo-movie see
Vampire Hell:
http://allenfrostlibrary.blogspot.com/2013/07/vampire-hell.html