Another American Adventure: heading north (again)

Sunday, July 21, 2013

heading north (again)

One last morning yoga by the pool ... one last swim ...

Jubilee and I say goodbye to our little hermitage spa and head north ...

We drop Jonathan off in St. Augustine, where he will drive Bella and Sebastian back to the hermitage/spa!

... and we continue north ...

2 comments:

BarbaraJuly 22, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Safe journey! The weather is lovely now that the terrible heat and humidity have passed by. But maybe you prefer that!
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beth cioffolettiJuly 23, 2013 at 8:36 AM
The cooler air feels good! We are very happy to be here again.
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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.