Say your piece and sail away until the tide's in

[sovay]

I checked in on the magnolia. It seemed to be doing all right.



The shadow of the house we live in fell so nicely on the garage that isn't ours.



It would probably not have occurred to me to decorate my front yard with a wagon wheel, but I am delighted that it occurred to someone else. With the green leaves winding its spokes, it looks like a Tarot card.



As promised, the magnolia. The telephone pole stayed out of shot this time.

I could not get a picture of the two raptors we saw circling over the Tufts campus, and the weeping cherry discovered at a local intersection was so barely in bloom that it seemed unfair. I will return for it.

I am trying to figure out if our upstairs neighbors are watching a period drama or just listening to music, because first I heard "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" and then "Anji," both of which are extremely recognizable echoing through our ceiling.

Comments

[selkie]

It used to mean the person/family wouldn’t go roaming again. You do not generally see them in the same neighborhood as Bathtub Marys, for whatever that’s ethnographically worth.

[sovay]

It used to mean the person/family wouldn’t go roaming again.

That makes sense. Not exactly the same gesture as bringing the oar inland, more like hanging up the guns.

You do not generally see them in the same neighborhood as Bathtub Marys, for whatever that’s ethnographically worth.

That also makes sense. We're up to our teeth in bathtub Marys in Somerville. We made Atlas Obscura for it.

[mrissa]

Fascinating, I did not know that, and I have several family friends and more-distant family members who have them. (In several of the cases I'm 100% sure they didn't know that either. It's a really cool bit of trivia I will be eager to tell some of them...and at least one I will not tell so she doesn't feel obliged to get rid of her nice wagon wheel, because she 100% intends to go roaming again.)