styrofoam aquarium
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aquarium,
baby frog,
fototudes,
naquillity,
styrofoam aquarium,
styrofoam cup
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Last night our neighbor's kids caught a baby frog and placed him inside this styrofoam cup with a little water. I couldn't resist taking his picture he's was so cute. When my camera flash came on he became curious of the light. I thought he was going to make his debut in my living room instead of on my blog.
Tonight our little guy is somewhere beneath my back porch. Click picture to enlarge.
John Beatty's Navy update
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barge,
bgem,
John Beatty's Navy,
naquillity,
sunken ship,
update
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John Beatty's Navy wreckage (2009)by Naquillity
I recently stumbled across your photos of Beatty’s wreckage. I spent time on that boat as a kid and with Captain Beatty. I was living on the West Coast when Beatty passed away and when the sinking of his towboat happened.
And the other...
Interestingly enough this isn’t the first time the Clare E. Beatty towboat has sunk. It sunk back in the late 1970s when Captain Beatty was trying to rescue some barges that cut loose down in Warsaw, KY (at the Markland Dam and Locks). The Clare E. Beatty towboat sunk when the Ohio River was almost frozen solid in ice. Beatty of course raised the boat because after all, that is what he did best.
Personally, I knew Captain Beatty back between 1986-1990. I was 9 years old when I first met him. Not a very long time but during that time I spent a lot of time at his house down in Warsaw KY and on overnight trips up and down the Ohio River. One trip was even during a salvage operation back in 1989 when a barge broke loose and hit the L & N Bridge in Cincinnati. The bridge was right next to Riverfront Stadium. It was a 3 week salvage operation, and all of Beatty’s equipment was anchored to one of the bridge piers. I remember sitting in the pilot house of the Clare E. Beatty late into the night and being able to see the beautiful lights from the city buildings glistening on the river. Captain Beatty’s wife, Clare, was in her early 70s at the time and battling some form of cancer. I think it was lung cancer because she was a daily smoker. Despite her illness, she too came along on the overnight trips. She would be the head cook and the galley (kitchen) of the boat was her domain. She made sure she fed everyone great home cooked meals during the trips. She’d cook for like a crew of 10 to 15 people on the boat. I remember she baked a delicious coconut cake and whenever I came to their house in Warsaw she’d always have one ready for me to eat! My most favorite summer trips on that boat was always to Augusta KY where they would hold an annual sternwheel boat regatta. It would take place at Augusta’s landing and about 15 to 20 sternwheelers would beach up at the shore. It would last 4 to 5 days and there would be music, craft makers, a corn roast, fireworks, etc. When I moved back to Cincinnati in 2004 I remember checking the calendar to see if they were still having the regatta but they discontinued them a couple years before. I was very disappointed but it probably wouldn’t be the same without Captain Beatty and Clare anyway. So yes, the Clare E. Beatty boat holds some very special memories for me and I can tell you that when it becomes feasible in the future, I might try to salvage and restore the boat myself.
The Kenton County Library just recently posted 8 pages of photos of Captain Beatty, his wife Clare, and the boat. Click here: http://www.kentonlibrary.org/genphotos/photoList.cfm Just type in the word “beatty” in the photo search.
John Beatty's Navy, oil paintingby Tom Lohre
Corey also provided a link to a book titled Beatty's Navy: The Life and Times of John L. and Claire E. Beatty at Amazon but it is currently unavailable.
Thank you so much Corey for sharing your memories of John, Claire and Beatty's Navy with us here at Naquillity. It is greatly appreciated.
Update: Being the interesting story this was I decided to change the blog name to my current blog and share this post here. Hope you enjoyed the story...
thither
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erasures,
naquillity,
poesaics,
thither,
wave poetry
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wooded hills and green fields
under great ash heaps.
since that eruption-
sometimes quiet
for a hundred years
men, almost forgotten
thundered out dust
after this mountain
very craggy and wild.
ordinarily the people,
sometimes,
bellows like an ox.
soon casts of cinders.
if these catch a man,
the roofs are crushed by the weight-
the wind, stiff, carried to far countries.
this bellowing comes every hundred years
and the air is pure and healthy.
My first poem for Wave Books, Erasures.
gentle repertoire
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gentle repertoire,
inner voice,
naquillity,
one single impression,
poesaics,
tanka
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into matric'lated thoughts,
gentle repertoire
- I am, again, measureless
patterns of unequal worth.
Photo Hunt- rock
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fototudes,
naquillity,
photo hunt,
poesaics,
rock,
scenic sunday
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lacineate blades farm the paths edges
orneryly in august's heat as
cinematics rappel with extraordinary
knack.
elongated and parallel
geometries
exponentiate the
exit of the robber fly.
orneryly in august's heat as
cinematics rappel with extraordinary
knack.
elongated and parallel
geometries
exponentiate the
exit of the robber fly.
Lockegee is a mountain peak in Rowan County, KY standing 1, 273 ft above sea level. Their rock formations share views of Cave Run Lake (pictured below) and vast mountains for the climber.
Coordinates: Latitude 38.12286, Longitude -83.447684
hypnotic dandelion
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3ww,
drip,
hypnotic,
hypnotic dandelion,
naquillity,
poesaics,
sulk,
tanka
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sulk against a summer wind,
hypnotic dand'lion
... your silver afro, loosed ends
drip frenzied, white fireflies.
Northern Mockingbird
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fototudes,
mockingbird,
naquillity,
northern mockingbird
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6:50 am. Morning is waking, yawning and stretching beneath this tilting marrow. The sky's pale face isn't blushed properly when I spy a Northern Mockingbird outside my window. He's skittering across my deck banister.Where he is- center- has fallen into an inquisitor's bitter soil. His tail writes in its circumference. Fog has limited his green landscape rendering him in limbo.
He mocks other birds never knowing his own disjuncted voice. Somewhere between grey and song he withers. His soul forever placed in Naquillity's tomes as a shared memento.
Here's a link at All About Birds to hear the Northern Mockingbird.
Manic Monday
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bad things,
bgem,
burp,
good things,
manic monday,
naquillity,
one thing
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Name two things you consider yourself to be bad at: gardening. Everytime I try to spruce up our surroundings with flowers I manage to kill them. I either waterlog them or don't water them enough or maybe it's to much sun- not enough. The other thing I'm bad at is dodging potholes. If there's a hole to be hit you can bet I've hit it and MANY times.
Name one thing not many people know about you: If you're a close friend of mine then there isn't anything you don't already know. I'm pretty much an open book. For my blog friends however I think I could share... this.
The school year was 1982- 83. I was in 8th grade. The spacious room we were in was divided into two classrooms by a bulletin board. Our teacher was up front teaching Social Studies, I think, when I decided I had something to say to my friend. She was sitting in the next row talking to someone else and I couldn't get her attention.
In the minutes that followed I not only got my friend's attention but BOTH classrooms at one time. I could feel it coming on, pressure building. Still, I'm trying to tap my friend's left shoulder. One last attempt. Before. I BURRRRPPPPED out loud. It was the longest burp I had ever let out in my life. Naturally I put my head into my folded arms at my desk and laughed, red faced until I was out of breath. The whole place was a riot in laughter. The teacher however wasn't as amused as everyone else and said, "Who did that?"
4th of July
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4th of july,
fireworks,
haiku,
independence day,
naquillity,
poesaics
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Tonight our neighborhood was filled with bombs bursting air so I grabbed my camera, put it onto my tripod and took pictures of the fireworks. The above photo (my favorite) was one of several shots I was able to capture. Here are the words to my haiku in case you can't read them.
fireworks whang night
with brilliant decorations
independence day
Headache
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children's prayer,
headache,
naquillity,
now i lay me down to sleep,
poesaics,
tylenol
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Without this headache to keep
If I should sigh before I wake
It's for aspirin I did not take.
I wrote this one day after having a headache for 5 days straight. We were coming back home when the classic children's prayer came to mind. I'm reminded of this poem today because I've had a bad headache and thought it would be fun to share it here as a tribute of sorts.
BTW my headache is starting to ease off now because I took some Tylenol. :)
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