The sounds coming from around and out of the church up the hill made it clear that the parade was not going to begin at 12 noon. The heat was increasing so we got out of the car to stand beside it. As we stood there we were joined by the two friends who had …
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The Inhabitants – more from the 4th of July Parade
The man was no doubt in his 60’s and his golden labrador puppy less than a year. He wore his years and experiences on his face and his body, including an eighth-month-preggers-beer-belly. He stopped by our car’s open window and began to chat. Said he had lived here 43 years and was now trying to …
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A Parade Like No Other
Although it is long past, a review of the 4th of July parade that took place in a small nearby hamlet is not to be forgotten. [was meant for 12 July posting.] This parade had been recommended with the warning, ‘Don’t be 5 minutes late, you’ll miss it’. We drove to the hamlet down a …
Has Talent
One of the nearby villages had its first annual talent show on Saturday evening. To take the stage and face your neighbors you have to be 1. fearless 2. confident 3. good at your talent 4. delusional 5. brave 6. a brash young teen 7. an inventor of your history. This list pretty much covers …
Find Your Way in Central Park
Sent by astute reader A and this is good information for anyone… http://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2016/09/05/central-park-lampposts-secret-code/ each ornate lamppost has a unique number inscribed on the base of the pole that actually acts as a navigational tool for travellers and locals alike looking to find out where exactly in the park they are. The first two or three …
A View from the Porch
Dirty Dancing
The location for this movie was ungraciously jury-rigged together between a deserted boys camp and some other unseemly and unlikely place. Where the producers really wanted to be was at Scott’s on a small lake nearby here. When Scouters approached the owners all those years ago, to use their site for a small indie film, …
Tulips!
Today, for the first time in more than a decade I planted tulip bulbs: yellow, red, purple, allium and daffodils. How wondrous if all of life had the same surety that the planting of bulbs does.
Sneaky Season
`Fall is a sneaky season. As I watch the leaves gently wafting to the ground, that is what they do, I realize it’s a precursor to snow flakes taking the same path. In the back and along the perimeter of the yard are pine trees. They basically do little but stand around being green and …
An Aside
In reading an article about an Off-Broadway play, the star is from Clatskanie, Or. Now I thought I was in-the-know when I knew about Gaston Or, the home of the twins in the Off-Broadway burlesque show, but Clatskanie? Beyond my ken.