All things fade into dark green water down by the lake
Yesterday was what ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch is accustomed to refer to as A Day, by which I mean that I spent it in the greater hinterlands of Rhode Island and Massachusetts with selkie on the occasion of her beloved grandfather's ninetieth birthday. We had dinner at S.S. Dion on the waterfront of Bristol Harbor, where I was introduced to about thirty relatives of assorted degrees and generations and had the best conversations with the one who went as Belle for Halloween because his five-year-old daughter asked him to. (He showed me the pictures. He looked great.) There were fried oysters for dinner and two cakes made by one of the cousins our age. The grandfather and his second wife hugged me when the party broke up, which I had not expected. We got yelled at by a seagull on the slipway. Otherwise the purpose of my presence was emotional support against damage radiating like black light and event horizons and I believe I discharged my duty faithfully; also I got some pictures in the process. Most of them are ancestral homestead, but there is also the sea.
Vintage rust. It belonged originally to Selkie's grandfather and was not the only one of its kind on the property.
What I began to refer to as the murder corn.
GRANT WOOD, EAT YER HEART OUT.
It was remarkably photogenic murder corn. We were both just pretty sure that if you live in the house, it talks to you.
A seal in her natural habitat.
Her natural habitat.
Selkie, windblown.
Me, also windblown.
I regret nothing about having been there for one of my dearest friends and the mother of my godchild, even if at one point way too close to our scheduled departure time we were seriously discussing stealing a car from the middle of cabin-bearing woods. We got home all right to our respective states. We slept late. Today I am doing nothing except reading Ross Macdonald and being visited byrushthatspeaks. But Monday could be boring and that would be just fine with me.
spatch is accustomed to refer to as A Day, by which I mean that I spent it in the greater hinterlands of Rhode Island and Massachusetts with selkie on the occasion of her beloved grandfather's ninetieth birthday. We had dinner at S.S. Dion on the waterfront of Bristol Harbor, where I was introduced to about thirty relatives of assorted degrees and generations and had the best conversations with the one who went as Belle for Halloween because his five-year-old daughter asked him to. (He showed me the pictures. He looked great.) There were fried oysters for dinner and two cakes made by one of the cousins our age. The grandfather and his second wife hugged me when the party broke up, which I had not expected. We got yelled at by a seagull on the slipway. Otherwise the purpose of my presence was emotional support against damage radiating like black light and event horizons and I believe I discharged my duty faithfully; also I got some pictures in the process. Most of them are ancestral homestead, but there is also the sea.
Vintage rust. It belonged originally to Selkie's grandfather and was not the only one of its kind on the property.
What I began to refer to as the murder corn.
GRANT WOOD, EAT YER HEART OUT.
It was remarkably photogenic murder corn. We were both just pretty sure that if you live in the house, it talks to you.
A seal in her natural habitat.
Her natural habitat.
Selkie, windblown.
Me, also windblown.
I regret nothing about having been there for one of my dearest friends and the mother of my godchild, even if at one point way too close to our scheduled departure time we were seriously discussing stealing a car from the middle of cabin-bearing woods. We got home all right to our respective states. We slept late. Today I am doing nothing except reading Ross Macdonald and being visited by
rushthatspeaks. But Monday could be boring and that would be just fine with me.
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Could you have paid me to walk into it? Eh, as an alternative to going into the house.
Also we wouldn’t even have had to hot start the car, so I do not think it would have been stealing.
Love.
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I lived in Iowa for just about exactly one year, and man, even when there's no wind, that stuff does talk to you. It rattles and rustles and there are the frantic sounds of little scurrying things and bigger scurrying things and then silence broken by a kind of shhhssshshshsh hushing sound. No Thank You.
aww the water pix are beautiful (as are the people in them)
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WELL I'M GLAD SOMEBODY DOES.
Could you have paid me to walk into it? Eh, as an alternative to going into the house.
Quite honestly I think that last half-hour could only have been improved by Murder Corn Primetime TV. There was moonlight to read by.
Also we wouldn’t even have had to hot start the car, so I do not think it would have been stealing.
It's true we wouldn't even have taken it out of your grandmother's sight.
Love.
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Man, I know how crop rotation works, but it was a blank shock to see corn instead of squash.
I wish I’d had time to take Sovay to the Peck family burying ground (circa 1630, on our land when I was a kid and we still have walk-through rights to it) because it would have been LESS coreepy. Samuel Peck never ran me out over the drystone fence.
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We heard that in the afternoon. It was remarkable how much like the sea it didn't sound.
aww the water pix are beautiful (as are the people in them)
Thank you!
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With squash, we'd have had a skyline!
I wish I’d had time to take Sovay to the Peck family burying ground (circa 1630, on our land when I was a kid and we still have walk-through rights to it)
I was sorry about that. I'd have enjoyed meeting those people.
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https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2199834/peck-burial-yard
(Rachel, Perez, Patience, and Experience are still there, I mentioned. I had some deep childhood side-eye for a girl named Perez Peck. Experience I guess I withheld opinion. I never had a problem talking to people older than me.)
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//is now picturing Mrs Hudson getting pelted with semi-rotted vegetables
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Thank you. There are some things you just don't let people walk into alone. Like murder cornfields. Or certain rooms.
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The haze-gold late sun was doing nothing for the eeriness levels, let me tell you.
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(What I mean is, thank you.)
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Next time, we accept your cousin's offer of a ride.
(You're welcome.)
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Ideally never! But fictitious exit strategies are a small price to pay for not going through the cabin in the scallop woods twice!
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Really all I had to do was point a camera at it. And not listen.
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Thanks for sharing the pics.
♥
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For the record, it is less the fact that it was a cornfield (even with a couch) than aspects of the surrounding situation which made me think of it as murder corn.
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I am still trying to work out which horror movie we were in and I keep coming up with Get Out, But Make It Jews.
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There may have been a view in previous years, when
Thanks for sharing the pics.
You're welcome!
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Thoughtful!
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torchflashlight.**sorry, sorry
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Why are you sorry about the flashlight? An initiate has to move with the times.
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Look, the original myth of Demeter and Persephone involves hilarious crotch jokes, you're good.
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Thank Baubo!
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Thank you!
(And that corn totally looks murdery.)
I'm oddly reassured, and yet simultaneously a little troubled, that it wasn't just us.