Rhapsodies

The day started with Mom suggesting that we go out on a canoe. While I was mostly indifferent to the idea, at the time. I got dragged to the rental place. In the mean time Mom was telling the rental having trouble with a “skunk”. (This being the country I briefly took her literally. ) Actually the “skunk” was a business rival who put his rental place closer to the water.

Anyway we got the canoe and canoed slowly for about two miles through two miles of gorgeous marshland ending in a lake. It was hot enough that I was very tempted to dive in. I took lots of pictures. The highlights included lots of blooming water lilies, black ducks, some turtles and trout.  In my imagination I kept going back and fourth between Wind in the Willows and the Fellowship rowing down the Anduin.

All in all it was magical.

After that we were assigned to pick 15 bags of seaweed for a lobster bake happening tomorrow.

And then came a long awaited ice-cream social to celebrate a scientific illustration program the Darling Center puts on. I had two servings (with a root beer float on the side ) and looked at the art samples the students had done. All good.

By the end of that it was four and my Mom and I spent the remains of the afternoon chilling in the Darling Center’s Library