Vermont Library

One wonders

A bevy of bookends

A good view, summer green

I love the massively heavy doors in old libraries where just pulling open that weight makes you feel something worthwhile awaits inside.

Lake Champlain

Love the first glimpse of Lake Champlain at the bottom of the hill when you are driving into Burlington. Way fun job someone has taking a floating raft around - I'll do that! (It's in the genes, my Mom wanted to be a tugboat Captain - which for a very ladylike elegant woman quite threw me through a loop when she shared that tidbit). We took a boat ride out, lazy afternoon on an open deck with iced tea and cheese and fruit platter to munch as you watch the boaters wave as you pass by - or in my case, look for Champy as you cruise around for an hour and a half, trying to psychically tell him or her to rise to the surface and greet you...yeah, it didn't work for me on Loch Ness either. Champy and Nessie - I'm one of the good guys! Show yourselves!

Sunday Quote

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

For Aunt Eileen

Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations.
Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies
like a snowflake falling on water. Below us,
some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death,
snaps on his yard light, drawing his sheds and barn
back into the little system of his care.
All night, the cities, like shimmering novas,
tug with bright streets at lonely lights like his.

-Ted Kooser, Flying at Night.

Morning grass, rock lines

Starting to look through the vacation photos - here is the grass at the edge of the deck at the place we stay...
I also liked these rock lines, formed at the swimming hole by an anonymous earlier visitor - I love seeing what's left behind, mud castles and stone bridges.

Some good reds

Some bright and bold summer reds to welcome the new week.

"First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do."

-Epictetus

some good blues