Another American Adventure: company

Thursday, November 15, 2012

company

I've had company this week.
This is my sister, coming half way around the world! Arriving at Palm Beach International airport a little after midnight.

FA and her friend Jeannie (from Wellsville)...

FA and me ... I think this is the last day that I will have hair. It's starting to fall out!

2 comments:

BarbaraNovember 15, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Hope you have a great visit! Let me know when that package arrives. ;)
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beth cioffolettiNovember 15, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Still anxiously awaiting for it Barbara ,
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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.