I've Been Tagged!

Thanks to Rae at Weather Vane, I've been tagged. I now have to insert the 10th picture in the first album of my Picassa photos, and I need to explain/describe it. Then I have to tag 5 more people.

So the photo:



These two beauties are Doc, the Siberian Husky, and Bailey, the Pedigree Medley [aka a Mutt.} They belong to my daughter and son-in-law. The photo was taken in the winter of '07 at the lake where my daughter and SIL lived when they first married. These two dogs are adorable -- Doc has gorgeous pale blue eyes, and Bailey thinks he's a lap dog -- he weighs 100 pounds but tries to back onto your lap!

Now for my tags:
1. Diane at A Stellarlife
2. Herrad at Access Denied
3. Mitch at Enjoying the Ride
4. Lisa at Brass and Ivory
5. Bennie and Patsy at The Smiths Bennie and Patsy

Then my poem:

Quilt ~ John Updike

The quilt that covers all of us, to date,
Has patches numbered 1 to 48,*
Five northern rents, a crooked central seam,
A ragged eastern edge, a way
Of bunching uglily, and a
Perhaps too energetic color scheme.

Though shaken every twenty years, this fine
Old quilt was never beaten on the line.
It took long making. Generations passed
While thread was sought, and calico
And silk were coaxed from Mexico
And France. The biggest squares were added last.

Don’t kick your covers, son. The bed is built
So you can never shake the clinging quilt
That blanketed your birth and tries to keep
Your waking warm, impalpable
As atmosphere. As earth it shall
Be tucked about you through your longest sleep.

Since I composed this rather nifty
Couplet, the number rose to 50.


© 1957 John Updike
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.