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Ben Pike
@ben-pike.bsky.social
Hiker, carpenter, hobbyist writer, climber, SUP on flat water, sunfish sailboat.
Was once a weekly Polk Street Beans & Cafe featured open mic reader in 1996 and I still have the mug.
Words in the hamper, under the couch, alongside baseboard, and elsewhere.
The Council has allotted an hour of stage time to Lake Writers, so a few others and I will hold forth (tell lies) starting around 12:30.
May 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
April 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
April 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
April 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
That can't be good. #storm
February 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The thirteen-year-old version.
February 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I'm having the same storm here. Thunder before dawn.
February 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A Virginia mountain song for your Monday evening.
February 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I refinished this table built from construction leftovers back in 1994
February 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Anyone else?
January 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The person I call to object.
I feel the call might be unheralded.
He looks like he just heard me.
January 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Resist
January 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Not 20 but 18
January 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The first photos with a new, less expensive phone. I sense a lack of clarity. |
A frozen creek, walking distance from home. It's private land but not posted to keep out.
It is deer season (I think). I wear an orange hat.
#hiking #virginia #photography
January 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We will get by
January 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
30 hrs and counting without power. My kitchen:
January 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
From one of our finest presidents to my grandfather
January 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My contribution to 50 Give or Take #4
December 25, 2024 at 1:16 PM
James River separating Amherst from Bedford County in Virginia #hiking
December 1, 2024 at 4:34 PM
I believe in the cosmic sextet
November 30, 2024 at 2:28 AM
November 27, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Beginning our climbing trip at Manchester Wall, Richmond, VA
(the rest will be less rural)
#climbing #outdoors
November 25, 2024 at 1:32 PM
My obligatory cat post.
November 19, 2024 at 12:41 PM
A rainy day visit to the Kluge-Ruhe Australian Aboriginal Art Museum (Kluge-Ruhe.org) in Charlottesville.

"Blackfella Law is written in the stars, on the ground, on the countryside, in the hills, everywhere" - Putuparri Tom Lawford
November 14, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Outer Banks, NC
November 11, 2024 at 12:17 PM