A tom turkey strutting in a mating display.

What are they feeding these guys over in Portsmouth?

“High Holy Days”!
I like that!

🍿while watching Billy tune a banjo

A daffodil in the early evening light.

Just a few in the woods.

Behold! Charles the III!, King of the Britons, lifteth the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch aloft, removeth the holy pin, counteth to three (no more, no less), and then lobbeth the grenade at the wicked-unto-God enemy, thereby blowing them into tiny bits, in his mercy.

Careful, I wouldn’t want to see them bring out the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Mix it with a protein drink 😉

Don’t know why I thought that immediately! Nugs has a lot of great stuff at the moment, started it for Billy Strings and this was a pleasant surprise.

Going to see them at Newport Folk but that’s a shortened festival set. This was something!

I guess I picked the right week to add Nugs!

Daffodils along the Cliff Walk in Newport RI

Daffodils along the Cliff Walk in Newport RI looking towards Middletown

Daffodils along the Cliff Walk in Newport RI looking towards McAuley Hall part of Salve Regina

Daffodil Days along the Cliff Walk

Watching along at home. Wonderful show.

Are you there?

Weekapaug, RI March 3, 2026

Then Who? Who let the dogs out?

Grateful Dead - Morning Dew (Winterland 10/18/74) (Official Live Video) YouTube video by Grateful Dead

Yikes! More people need a refresher on the second order effects
youtu.be/fpKQOvlDr-s

It was the best of times and the worst of times, but this…

🎶Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Dizzy with eternity
Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea
Call it home for you and me🎶

It’s our only home.

John Prine - "I Remember Everything" YouTube video by John Prine

Lessons from a life well lived.

youtu.be/L21Tc_DtL6M

Look forward to Sunday night.

Molly Tuttle performing “Cold Rain and Snow” with Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives.

Outside the beautifully restored 100 year old theatre in New London CT

Guitars were truly on fire, juxtaposed with the sweetest harmonies.

Excellent show Friday night. Molly Tuttle joked there are three kinds of blue grass songs: songs of longing and regret, train songs and murder ballads. Later, with Marty Stuart she sang the sweetest “Cold Rain and Snow”. The YouTube link is from the night before.

youtu.be/0oD1IDp91y4

Some choice headlines from the past week.

@bencollins.bsky.social why is everything now The Onion?

Emmy Lou Harris Rhythm and Roots 2024

Still got it.

Boosters falling away after initial phase of the Artemis II launch.

40 years later and this is what we’re doing.

Hmm. Easton’s Beach from Esplanade today?

Full Moon through the trees

Hard to believe we’re going back to the moon.

If you are not paying for a product, you are the product.

Substack might turn me into a prepper. But there are some writers there that I do want to read, so I keep going back.

Mars Hotel deserves some love.

Heard Unbroken Chain on Grateful Dead Listening Party Sunday and it’s still in my head two days later.

Ask your son about that vamp 🙂

My favorite end of my favorite beach.

And we were having such a good time this weekend.

Five Fucks on a shelf.

I got some fucks on a shelf to share. Fuck cancer.