May. 13th, 2014

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I told [livejournal.com profile] sovay about this railway bridge--the tracks are gone now; it's a hiking trail--for the Delaware & Hudson line. There are dandelions and sumac growing on this bridge now.

The D&H

I do love its flourishing style and debatable quotation marks . . .

The D&H

Here, the restaurant instructs passersby to Google the chamber of commerce for menus (though I like reading this as "Google chamber"--do you dare to enter the Google chamber?)

Google chamber

But a church in the same town warns that you won't find all your answers through Google

A church opines on Google

Past the church, the coffee shop has its doors open--maybe you'll find some answers in a cup of . . . Java? Joe? What other names for coffee? ("Java," by the way, is used as a name for coffee in The Grapes of Wrath---I didn't know the slang was that old.) [livejournal.com profile] osprey_archer, I thought of you when I took the coffee shop photos :-)

coffee shop


Golden

May. 13th, 2014 10:27 pm
asakiyume: (glowing grass)
Just imagine everything is golden-yellow. Birds everywhere are golden: yellow warblers with streaks of orange on their breasts, and goldfinches, and golden-orange orioles, and black-and-white bobolinks with golden heads. Even the red-winged blackbird, with his scarlet epaulets, has yellow gold on him: fringe for those epaulets. And all these birds are singing golden songs. The trees, meanwhile, are a hundred different hues of yellow and green, and in the tender new grass (which tastes like the scent of hay), there are dandelions, with stems a foot long and flowers the size of half-dollar coins.

Around the corner of one road,a car had pulled way up off the road and two women and a little boy were knee deep in the meadow, picking dandelions. One woman wore a loose, off-the-shoulder top; the other had purple-red hair. The boy seemed barely dandelion-height.

I was with [livejournal.com profile] teenybuffalo; it was about 5 pm. We smiled as we passed, and the purple-haired woman said, in an almost intoxicated voice, "You want one?" and we said sure, and Teeny put hers through the buttonholes of her vest, a boutonnière, and I stuck mine in my braid--souvenirs of the golden land.

no camera, so here is a vague sketch from memory

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