Life is Art/Art is Life
Still Life in Baltimore Mark making with a Small Person–Paul Klee would approve! #dada #surrealism
earthonfoot. travel writing
Human/Nature
earth on foot 20 2 October 2025 Mary T Watts, an American naturalist, poet, illustrator and daughter of Danish immigrants, wrote a letter to the Chicago Tribune on September 25, 1963. In it, she implored the city to repurpose an abandoned rail line into a multi-use path (“bulldozers are drooling”, she wrote). This letter eventually … Read more
Life on the Northeast Regional
earth on foot 19 25 Sept 25 We, a haphazard group of commuters, head toward Newark, through Philadelphia, en route to New York. My seat mate is long-legged. To my surprise, the hiss I thought was an air leak at the window is music through his headphones. What is it, I wonder? Oasis? Bach? Enya? … Read more
Close Reading in Baltimore
Earth on foot 18 18 September 2025 A lithe squirrel, hesitant, makes his way over red bricks. An acorn fills his tiny mouth. I see him a moment later, far up the pine in the neighbor’s yard. I thought I was alone here, but there’s an awful lot going on around me, come to think … Read more
Of Mere Being
Earth on foot 17 September 11, 2025 At a cafe, Baltimore, Maryland, near Johns Hopkins University, 11am, cool, cloudy Of Mere Being The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze decor, A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without human meaning, Without human feeling, a foreign song. … Read more
Polite Brooklyn
earth on foot 16 4 Sept 2025 Crickets’ song, a cool breeze through the open window, and an occasional peal of laughter: I’m back in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, where even the dogs are considerate. And if they aren’t, their owners warn, “She’s a waving dog,” and wave at their puppy to demonstrate. “Not … Read more
We’ll Always Have England
earth on foot 14 21 august 2025 I’m thinking of England. Worton Park, Oxford, specifically, where our group stayed, cooked, and celebrated a special wedding. One morning, I awoke to see a tee shirt drying in the sunshine outside of our window. Since I love sleuthing, I surmised that S., David’s cousin, had already taken … Read more
Roman Birthday!
earth on foot 12 13 augusto 2025 Busy squirrels overhead somewhere in the dogwood tree, nibbling seeds—can’t tell precisely what, but I hear their sharp cracks. Soon I’ll be in my gardening attire—green slip-on shoes, green gloves to match, the straw traveling hat my mother-in-law got me—on a sultry summer day, but now, after a … Read more
Koblenz/ Confluence
Koblenz to Baltimore. earth on foot 11 On our last day in Germany, I took the IC train an hour from Mainz to Koblenz. I’d been told the night before, at a beer hall notable for its 5-foot-tall beer steins, that it was a lovely city with lots of history and great apple strudel. On … Read more
Tokyo to Baltimore
earth on foot 3 11 June 2025 We left from Haneda Airport, Tokyo—more convenient from Asakusa than Narita—and flew directly approximately 15 hours to Dulles. Because of the time change and the date line we arrived in DC on the exact day and at the same time we left Tokyo.The next morning (a relative term), … Read more