Everything's Gonna Be OK

like a drive-thru window

like a drive-thru window

by Slowboat Blackwell

it’s a life of few conveniences out here. carrying your whole life on your back is not so efficient.

cleverly disguised

by Slowboat Blackwell

a ruse. a disguise. tell me lies, tuesday, tell me sweet little lies.

cleverly disguised

bear eyes and ears and nose

by Slowboat Blackwell

Crepuscular – referring to animals primarily active during twilight, dawn and dusk.
i call them bear eyes, but really it’s the bear hour.  there is a certain time of night when dusk blurs to dark. what’s left of the light makes the whole forest come alive.  every tree, stump, rock and log threatens like a bear. [...]

bear eyes and ears and nose

magic stories. the trail magic edition.

by Slowboat Blackwell

not all of stories from this summer (sometimes winter?) are so worrisome and epic.  these are a few shorts from the good -can you believe that happened?- stories.
ps.  greg salisbury is probably the nicest guy in encampment, wyoming.  he’s also the town taxidermist, a welder on a gas pipeline, the only guy who would pick [...]

magic stories. the trail magic edition.

prom in a sequin dress.

by Slowboat Blackwell

my hands were worse.  they would barely work and hardly hold the pencil (that i keep just in case the ink in my pen won’t flow.)  i swear that even my brain was frozen.  half of it anyway, the creative half.  i could only write fragments in my journals.  so.  put away your reading glasses, [...]

prom in a sequin dress.

Superlatives

by Slowboat Blackwell

Good morning from twin lakes. I woke up early and walked outside. Beautiful. I heard everyone grumble. “valley thinks everything is beautiful,” as they rolled over to go back to bed. An hour later, a storm rolled in and it all went grey and frigid. “real beautiful morning, valley.” then I showed them the pictures [...]

Superlatives

earth. fire. wind. water. heart. go planet!

by Slowboat Blackwell
earth. fire. wind. water. heart. go planet!

mountain tops and wild flowers

by Slowboat Blackwell
mountain tops and wild flowers

from sunshine to rain to hail to snow to hail to rain to sunshine, all in about 5 minutes

by Slowboat Blackwell
from sunshine to rain to hail to snow to hail to rain to sunshine, all in about 5 minutes

up there in the sky

by Slowboat Blackwell
up there in the sky