The Edward Gorey Museum

We are big fans of his work. He had a macabre leaning but in a playful way and his art is just fantastic. Our second time there, the house offerings were sparser, someone mentioned a traveling show elsewhere, but it was still a pleasure.

Photo credit, these first three taken by the husband, the rest by me.

The museum is in Gorey's home in Yarmouth, Massachusetts 

It is both homey and silly and kitschy and respectful all at once

Also has a good gift shop tucked away :)

Edward Gorey

His waiting companion

The writer and artist as friends no doubt knew him

A lover of cats

Peeks into early notebook sketches

Yes, worth a trek if you're on the Cape.

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Presently Blogger is claiming I am not me. So while I am able to post here, I am unable to let recent (and very nice, thank you, Jenny) comments load. 

Sigh.

Will try again later.

Cape Cod Bliss

Just back from a stay in one of my favorite places.  Perfect way to wrap up summer and since this was a bit of a rough summer, it was all the sweeter.

Provincetown - where the Public Library has a Boat in the children's room (as every library should)...

Plus great views

Folks taking a dip off a small beach at the end of a street 

A chicken outside the lovely Snowy Owl Coffee Roasters in Brewster where they also have an in house herbalist.

Just floating around 

Our Tucker when he finally stopped biting at the sand and water long enough to feign a pensive pose.

More tomorrow...

Found in boxes

Ever amused at this scrap of torn newspaper that describes my personality perfectly.

New Poem Out

A new poem is up today at a favorite site, Woman Around Town. The poem, Backstory, had the honor of several of its lines chosen to ride around Norwalk, Connecticut on buses, along with bits of poems from other poets of all walks. Spearheaded by Norwalk's Poet Laureate, Laurel Peterson, these traveling poetry lines celebrated our national poetry month in April and can be viewed at the Norwalk Public Library 's website. A fun idea I was happy to be a part of - and now here is the poem in full below.

The poem is based on the structure of the Where I'm From poems created by Kentucky 's Poet Laureate George Ella Lyon which is a great teaching poem and writing tool. I taught this form in a workshop in Katonah, NY at their library and the results never fail to surprise and encourage new poets. 

I hope you enjoy my version. 

http://www.womanaroundtown.com/sections/reading-around/poets-corner-backstory-susan-moorhead

 

In So Many Words

A brief popping in to share the release of this poetry book. Happy to have two poems and an interview in it. 

Available on Amazon.