the garden

Happy Birthday!

i celebrate you
Juls and Cheri
and want you both to rest assured
that a significant quantity of
very fine chocolate
shall be enjoyed in your honor.

When trying to decide what to present to you
i decided i wanted to share my favorite images
from this island stay
of Madaket Harbor

With all your science - can you tell how it is, and whence it is,
that light comes into the soul? 
                                               ~Henry David Thoreau

We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars... Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star-stuff.
                                     ~Carl Sagan

There is a garden there, by the sea

And i did spend time lounging in it
and snipping faded daffodils from their stems
in the company of bird song.
And, yes
i got my camera out a few times.

When the cherry tree flowered
my favorite view was from the living room

i think.
Maybe not.
Maybe it was in the garden
looking up




My dear friend
who invites me to live in her home by the sea
with her fur balls (you know, cats)
loves to collect all manner of objects
some of which you can see in and out the window.
And others that surprise you as you 'round a corner

On a wall
in the deepest
shadiest
coolest corner
surrounded by rhododendron
and eager ivy:

The sweetest prescence of all
was an angel
who, every morning
wore the sun as her halo

Let's have a parade!

It was Daffodil Weekend on the island
and the main event is a parade of antique cars
decorated, of course.

Never in a million years
could i have guessed that i'd meet
Tina
who would become a dear friend
who owned an adorable VW "Thing"
who would invite me to join them
and ride in one of the funnest parades ever.

So, of course
i documented the frivolity
and made another little film.

Wish i could share the version i made
that includes Scott Joplin's Chrysanthemum as the sound track
which is perfect
but
you know, it's not nice to publish other people's work
without special permission (which i doubt i can get and
it would take another month, most likely)
or paying a bunch of money.
So
if you don't mind a few online gymnastics
click on this link
which should open a music video in a new window
and then quickly come back to this page
to watch this
(or just click on the arrow.
It's fun without the music, too.)

i was here

and i messed about

with boats.

Not real ones
like this handsome vessel

which belongs to Mister Rogers' family

i'm afraid we're talking about
more non-Pooh sticks.

After finding a pile of mussel shells
some smaller scallop shells
and scrounging up a glue gun
i had myself a little fleet
which then starred in their own little movie:

 

The little single hull ship
lost her sail completely
and was repaired before leaving the isle
and now
they all rest on a shelf
in the cottage that feels like home



waiting for someone else
who loves to sail
in ankle deep waters.