Bonjourno:
“What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe.” ………………Thomas Merton
“From the power of jumping into the water, the Frog can float” ………………..Torei
“I am happy to have the people I like make money” …………………………….Ferlin’
Every picture tells a story, story…………good ones this week capture the essence and fade of the Autumn her in Da Greens……so staying with The Zen flow…. for now….winding down….tears of a clown…..opulence on the ground, swirling sounds……….goin’ round and round……
First Fall Fade is:
……early Monday morning flight up the 7 to thru the Big town and then onto to the quirky Chaplain Islands for a three nighter
……cottage on the splendid lake……almost one of the Great ones, not quite…..Urine trumps it……20th year in a row for fall celebration….morning birds dazzling in the warm autumn sunlight
……Foliage Peak astounds, as we are almost in stick season in the southern climes……. nature’s glory….an overture to the soul……rock and roll…….smoke da bowl…..
……TRADITION (think Zero Mostel on The Roof)……………………..The Happy Chicken dirt road emporium for the pot pies…….Halls Orchard for a bag of Vermont’s finest…….Hackett’s for THE best cider donuts in creation….how long does it take 2 sane adults to eat dozen a cider donuts?…..thus is trick Zen question……
……Finding a world class Thai restaurant on a small island just short of Canada in a small house with a gaggle of wonderfully displaced Thai woman in the back and a classic Vermonty native-species Reluctant Server up front….Duck to die for
……Roaming the Mystic Dunes at Alburg State Park…and strolling the trails at all six state parks on Island time……all to ourselves……. Papi, TQ, Lucy. Leaves…. REPEAT…….
……. Finding a trail that make you feel like it is 1972 and you are on your own for the first time, somewhere in France…. OR…..that looks le a 1970 album cover with Alvin Lee…..smoooottthhhhh……..
……Discovering local history for the first time…. like the long gone Rutland Railroad line-that ran up thru the Islands in tiny railway bridges and into Quebec for a century…….i hear the train a comin’’- its comin’ round the bend………
……The Dumpmaster and his ADM are in woolens and taking up residence in the Dump-Hump-Warming Shack…..but still rush out for hugs for Stuie…and bugs for Louie……Whoowey…ride me high…..
……Driving over the Andover Pass on a sunny afternoon……a dirt road calling out for a hike to the windy top and the cow communing…. then down to Crazy Chester for box lunch on the green….gazing at the 1850 Public Tomb across at the graveyard …..what do teenager girls do in Chester?
……. Shockingly, in mid-70’s running into nights in the 20s……and the beat goes on……
……. Yankees and Dodgers………GO BLUE…… Kamala vs the Fall of Democracy……. MUST……GO BLUE
………joining the ACLA…. Anti-Covet League of America……wish not, want not……all I need is luv………
……. cleansing, preparing, pruning, storing, readying…………………………soon to be of off se the wizard…. but NOT YET…………..still leaves to be sought out…….
Keep on the sunny side………. Ferlin’
