Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna" excerpt.

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
How can I explain?
Oh, it's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn

(neither the image, nor the lyrics are mine)

good eatin'

The spider has spun her web
beneath the light on the front porch
and I think to myself
that's a good place for a spiderweb.

Autumn, it's here.

I was going to write on politics tonight, but I'm too tired to deal with the topic right now. Nothing much is new over my way. The weather is getting cooler, as most of you are surely already aware. This makes the more difficult, more taxing jobs on the farm easier to handle. It has the downside, however, of making the Tuesday and Friday morning harvests, which start promptly at 7AM, nearly unbearable. When I came into work the other day the temperature was about 38 degrees Fahrenheit and there was patchy frost on the ground. When you have to work with wet plants (basil and other herbs in this case) for more than an hour straight, you experience all kinds of pain in your extremities - particularly in your digits. More on that another time.

On the bright side, the fireworks of fall have begun. Hooray for colorful leaves! Hooray for rustling corn stalks! Hooray for crunchy dried plant matter!