Another American Adventure: the pool

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

the pool

Our community pool at 5AM this morning. We've been spending time up there this summer, commingling with the neighbors and cooling off in the water. I keep meaning to take a photo but I forget my camera. This morning as Jubilee and I were doing our first walk of the day, I remembered. I can sense that our (my) days here are seriously numbered and there are things without which this blog would be remiss. Like an early morning photo of the pool.

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BarbaraJuly 3, 2012 at 7:33 PM
Looks so dark for 5 a.m. Often my boys will get me up between 5 and 6 a.m. I roll over, but I do notice that it is not dark outside. Maybe the more northern latitude makes a difference.
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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.