”The lovely flowers embarrass me, They make me regret I am not a bee –“
The sound of rain woke me up. I listened for a short while then went back to sleep. The rain has since stopped, but the morning is damp, chilly. Everything is soaked.
Yesterday I finished planting the flowers I had bought. The deck now has 4 clay pots, 2 decorative pots and 8 over the rail flower boxes filled with herbs and flowers. I still need more flowers for the big clay pots I put on the deck trail. That’s for tomorrow. I cleaned out the metal trash can where I kept the seeds for the feeders. I haven’t hung the feeders since last year because the small branches where they had hung are gone, broken off, so I‘ll have to be creative. I do have a couple of ideas.
When I was a kid, we sometimes went to Boston for the day. We’d spend time on the Boston Common. I remember riding the Swan Boats. The boats are propelled by pedals, foot power, so the ride is quiet. I could hear birds. I watched swans gracefully swimming in the lagoon. I remember sitting on one of the benches near flower beds and having squirrels, aka the spawns of Satan, all round me begging for the peanuts my father had bought. They’d stand on their hind legs, paws out. I thought it was amazing they were so close. I was young. The Swan Boats haven’t changed in close to 150 years, neither have the squirrels.
The Peace Corps had Land Rovers, the sort that used to cross the Sahara in caravans of vehicles instead of camels. To me they meant adventures in out of the way places. I remember my first ride in a Range Rover. It was at the end of our mid-year conference. We had stayed at a hotel with cabins right on the ocean and down the coast from Accra. When one of the Peace Corps staff was going back to Accra, he offered to drive a few of us with him. I leaped at the chance. I was in a Land Rover in Africa. I could’ve been on a page of National Geographic.
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June 27, 2024 at 7:58 pm
Hi Kat,
Another day of partly cloudy skies with puffy white clouds and a cool 98° high temperature. Any time the thermometer reads below the century mark it’s a cool day. 🙂
When I was a teenager in NYC, my orthodontist’s office was at 81st and Central Park West in Manhattan. I took the subway on Saturdays and would spend the rest of the afternoon at either the Hayden Planetarium, or the American Museum of Natural History across 81st Street. Some times my cousin would accompany me and we would walk across Central Park to either the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Guggenheim Art museum across 5th. Avenue. For fifteen cents we could ride the subway anywhere in the city.
June 27, 2024 at 9:02 pm
Hi Bob,
We had a hot day today, low 80’s, but it is much nicer tonight, 73°. There is even a little breeze.
I went out today for a blood test then I stopped to the candy store for snacks for tonight’s debate. I got chocolate caramel corn and salt water taffy. I am holding on to hope for Joe tonight.
I went to high school in Arlington. The square is on Massachusetts Ave. We used to take the bus for 10. Nets down to Harvard Square. We’d wander around, go to the Peabody Museum and sometimes went to Olson Well’s movie theater. Harvard Square was wonderful back then with neat stores and restaurants. I loved it.