Another American Adventure: Aunt Louise and Gracie

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Aunt Louise and Gracie

Aunt Louise and Gracie have been visiting for the last couple of days. As Aunt Louise (age 97) says: I can't believe that we're all here doing this!
We've been to the Sailfish Marina for dinner and a boat cruise, to the art show over there, and then to Carmine's for sfoogliatelle and pizza!

Saw lots of big boats and fancy houses ...

Conch Fritters!

Florida stuff.

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BarbaraFebruary 16, 2012 at 6:38 PM
Good on you, Aunt Louise!
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.