the cottage is coming along nicely. i keep having dreams of it, furnished & lived in, and i can't wait any longer. i wake up and want to just pack up the car and go. the city is getting cold. i'd rather enjoy the rain from a screened-in porch, peering out from inside a really, really big blanket. maybe we will even get to spend christmas there this year. i can't sit still with this looming... plus, now i'm starting to wonder if i should work on building a little treehouse...

tea

camping at the lake couldn't have gone by quicker. we played endless amounts of board games & drank my favorite tea right now - rose petal & chamomile.
sadie, our new adopted dog, thoroughly enjoyed her first camping trip - we couldn't get her out of the lake.
(she may or may not have accidentally killed a frog by licking it too hard.) her & the 8 month old akita pup got in a few scraps, but overall, i think, were secret lovers.
looking forward to the farm at the end of this week.

pieces of summer

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margaret durow

i especially love the photograph of the fish; it reminds me of being thirteen, camping near a river in the fall. the salmon were swimming upstream to mate, and i was in the middle of the river, standing on a rock- my foot slipped into the water and frightened the salmon, and, what felt like hundreds of them, threw their giant, slimy bodies up and out of the water, flipping and flopping around me until i fell into the shallow river. i was sure i would be transported upstream along with them, or perhaps eaten, but to my surprise, i survived (LUCKY).

all images courtesy of margaret durow

rachel carson

couldn't help but reel upon discovery of these images in the beinecke rare book & manuscript library. i still have yet to read a silent spring, but it's on the book list!

image 01: "photograph of rachel carson as a young girl with two dogs sitting on the grass"
image 02: "left: sea lettuce / right: irish moss /animal is leander - common prawn"

images courtesy of yale collection of american literature
& the beinecke rare book & manuscript library

jackson and i have been sleeping often. sometimes all day even. we slept out on the balcony for the first time the other day. i'm glad that i found violeta niebla's photographs because they're perfect for the mood i'm in right now.
tonight i will take pictures in the dark and we'll see how that goes. this song is making me sleepy and have dreams while i'm awake...hmmm.

1. i remember the first day you wore a dress and i wondered if you did that often.
2. it wasn't too long ago that i dreamt that i fell backwards into a pond, with the young trout and bread crumbs from grandpa's dinner.
3. we drove out tonight, further than before, into my memory as a little child, painted a solid pink and flecked with white by a moon that drew a circle in one of your eyes.