ONCE UPON A TIME: SHADOW DREAMS OF CHILDHOOD

ONCE UPON A TIME: LINED UP FOR TAKE OFF, TAKE OFF, SEA GULL BEACH, WEST YARMOUTH, CAPE COD, MA, USA

TYING SHOE LACES

CHECKING SPELLING OF LIMBER, DISCOVERING DEFINITIONS

ONCE UPON A TIME, USA: BASS RIVER CRUISE, SOUTH YARMOUTH, CAPE COD, MA

17 - 18 SEPTEMBER 2014

ONCE UPON A TIME: AUTUMN, CAPE COD, MA USA

ONCE UPON A TIME: AUTUMN, VERNON STREET OFF DEPOT STREET, MILFORD, MA USA

ONCE UPON A TIME: KING RICHARD'S FAIRE, CARVER, MA, USA

ONCE UPON A TIME: YOUNG LADY OF THE LAKE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA

SUNFLOWERS IN SUBURBIA: DEPOT STREET, MILFORD, MA, USA

EVEN THE SUNFLOWERS

ONCE UPON A TIME: "FOREVER" SUNFLOWERS, CAPE COD, MA

ONCE UPON A TIME: TREE SPRITE - CAPE COD, MA, USA

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SUMMERTIME SUNSHINE FARMS OUTDOOR ICE CREAM STAND

BREAK IN SUMMERTIME HUMIDITY

23 August 2016 Tuesday

Stepping out of the shower

Toweling Dry

And staying dry

MUST BE AUGUST

SUMMERTIME TROPICAL HUMIDITY IN SUBURBIA

     Hazy Hot Humid

     Cool Gray Humid

     Why Go To The Beach

     When You Can Swim

     Through The Air

    
     - Grew Up Cape Cod, MA USA

    - Beach Sand In My Pant Cuffs

AUGUST IS THE QUIET SUMMER MONTH

05 August 2016 Friday

Yesterday and today 60 Degrees F or so, 7 AM-ish

Sunrise refreshing cool warm

Hinting

Not so very much later

In the day

Sunny hot

DROUGHT

Deciduous trees

Shedding leaves

Ahead of season autumnal

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE DAYTIME

Early pine cones, dropping on roof, rolling, thumping,

Bumping to the ground

Gravity at work

CHANGE OF SEASONS

Silenced air conditioners

Rumbling furnaces

RASPBERRY PICKING

TRAVEL, GORGEOUS LIGHT PEACH COLORED SUITCASE

CINDERELLA & PIRATE TREASURE ARE IN THE BUILDING!

From Kathryn: Glad you found pirate treasure! Such fun! The little things in Life, sometimes. 

ROBINS LIQUID LILTING LITANY, MORNING AVIAN CHOIR

2'S IN MY POCKET - "WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET?"

2'S IN MY POCKET - "WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET?"

     $2.00 tradition birthdays & special occasions growing up years from maternal side Grandma Holt. 1950's and up maybe through teen years. Back then $2.00 was a lot. How times have changed.
     Even so, I am passing along "tradition" to my Great-Nieces Jasmine and Aiya. I hear "tradition" means a lot to them at this point in time.
     The day I sent Jasmine her birthday card and $2.00 "tradition", I made a small observation of my own.
     In my wallet I had 2 one dollar bills, 2 quarters, 2 dimes, and 2 pennies after shopping this morning. 
     "Tradition".
     How often does something like that happen, I wonder. 
     2's In My Pocket - "What's In Your Wallet?"

- 8 April 2016 Friday
- excerpt text to my sister Kathryn Lewis Sherman- Illsley
  8:46 AM     

GHOST ACHE

     GHOST ACHE

     The ache that isn't really there

     But it is

- 18 March 2016 Friday 5:30 AM-ish
  


Excerpt text to my sister Kathryn, 19 March 2016 Saturday 8:42 AM-ish
   Hi back, Sis....Whatever bug I got hanging in after a week maybe plus. As you said you were... so tired. And ghost achey and sore stomach muscles. Need dry warmth and sunshine!...TTYL Love
   

HORSESHOE CRAB ARMAGEDDON, MERMAID REQUIEM, AFTER THE STORM, CAPE COD, MA, SEPTEMBER 2012

SISTERS GROWING UP BEACH MEMORIES

                       
    Last week my sister and I were discussing via texting who would visit whom the coming weekend:

From me to her - "If you need a change of scenery more than I do I am OK with you coming here...the beach is calling me but warmer weather is coming for that."

Kathryn to me - "...beach is calling me too..."

     Thing is, while I now and have for years lived here in suburban Milford, MA , for a while now Kathryn is living in a beach area near the state of MA and NH border.

     We were born in CT, she in 1950 and me in 1953. When I was 3 or 4 years old, our family moved to Cape Cod, MA, a working middle class area of West Yarmouth, South Sea Avenue, the road that just a mile or so away links to Sea Gull Beach. Cape Cod, MA is full of beaches. So we grew up "on the beach" at a time when Cape Cod was not nearly so built up as it is now and was much more of a Summer Tourist dependent area than perhaps it is now, although Summer Tourism is still a huge part of the area's working class economy.

    Since you understand the years in which we grew up you also know the historical times in which we grew up. At home we were taught manners, our good public education was reinforced in a variety of ways, including our ties to Nature and gardening and growing some of our own food.   

   I am not one of those people who is going to dwell in or on the past and insist that times were better then than they are now. I will just say times were different.

     I moved off Cape after college. I visited often. My sister stayed longer before also moving off Cape. Not many of our family are left there.

   We still have our house, but after a few years of trying Summer Rentals, we decided to rent on an annual basis to a family friend and family. It is a house for a family. A "special" family who appreciates the "quirkiness" of an older Cape Cod home.        

    To my sister and me, growing up on Cape Cod, Ma was "special". Cape Cod, MA is still "special". Just not "special" in the ways we remember it being "special". "Special...but Different."

     So my sister came here to suburban Milford, MA from her beach area where she is currently living for her "change of scenery, mini-vacation."

     Here is how our weekend here transpired through the lens of edited texting, before, and after...

Kathryn, coming to visit: "Might bring my teddy bear lol see you later today love K"

To Kathryn: "Teddy bears always welcome too!"                

From Kathryn, after visiting: "Hi back here...about 3:30...had a really nice time with you and (my husband) Joe and at your home would like to do that again love seeing your poetry Beth you do have a wonderful way with words chat soon Love K"

To Kathryn: "Hi Sis. Yes a lovely afternoon evening Saturday and morning early afternoon Sunday. So nice to have warmer weather and sun to open rooms closed to try and save some winter heat expenses. And vacation and dine and relax in my own living room and dining room with someone who is sympatico which is a rarity! I sat in living room by myself after you left and it was just not the same. Went upstairs to my normal haunt and realized how content I was. Nice feeling....

From Kathryn: "I can rest and relax and rest a bit weepy this morning memories..."

To Kathryn: "What memories?"

From Kathryn: "Growing up seeing the items you have from South Sea Avenue (note: our house on Cape Cod)...it is healing tears so always feel better after I cry want to come and visit again same as you about sitting in living room feels like home..."

To Kathryn: "Yes. Know what you mean. Sympatico. Growing up there were issues but always loving. Looking back (note: growing up on Cape Cod) it was really special. Still hard to let it go. You and I go back further and have memories noone else close to us has. I have told (my husband) and Courtney (Joe's and my daughter) that too. Oh dear. Now I am weepy. Changes of seasons in more ways than one. Have a good day. Keep me posted. TTYL Love"                

- Weekend of February 27 & 28, 2016

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19 February 2016 Friday

Kitchen floor still winter chilly to the touch

Bare feet impatient

For approaching warmer days

Of Spring, Summer, Fall 

TRANSPORTATION AGES

 

 

Artwork by Masha Hoffey

TRANSPORTATION AGES

WOMB

BIRTH

SOMEONE ELSE CARRIES YOU AROUND

STAND

CRAWL

WALK

RUN

TRICYCLE

SCOOTER

BICYCLE

HOVERBOARD

CAR/MOTORCYCLE/TRUCK

SEGWAY

WALK WITH CANE, WALKER, SOMEONE ELSE ASSISTS YOU

WHEELCHAIR

COFFIN - GROUND

ASHES - WIND

REBIRTH

?????

 

26 January 2016 Tuesday 9:41 AM
- excerpt text from my sister Kathryn Lewis Sherman-Illsley

This sure is cozy up season
and none of us seem to be able to get cozied up enough.


- Elizabeth Ann Sherman-Taylor

2 March 2015 Monday 9:13 AM
- excerpt text to my sister Kathryn Lewis Sherman-Illsley:
     Mirror image winter pale and weary. Last Friday one minute here and one minute there stood still in full sun outdoors before going inside again to PAID work. Snow again last night, not a lot, enough to slick coat yet again roads and driveways and cars, plowed and shoveled and snow cleared to death since end of January.
     Sitting on front porch in faux wicker green lawn chairs recently seating blocks of ice and snow able to be chipped and brushed away. Sipping a 1/4 cup of hot black coffee in sun, watching sun sparkled fairy snow dust glitter float drop plunge down from pine trees branches in front yard. Quite the sight.
     As earth moves sun into different sky sphere will have to go inside as shades colder become rulers of front porch. Will be warm enough in AM sun soon to once again sit dream in front upstairs morning sun pretend magic castle talisman tower room. I have to straighten it up from when Joe snow roof raked porch roof through those windows.

- Elizabeth Ann Sherman-Taylor   

23 January 2014 - 7 AM-ish

Bruised purple, burnt orange, pink, white gold

Frosted bare tree branches

Chimney smoke rising

Sunrise

0 degrees F +/- light snow ground cover

- Elizabeth ann Sherman-taylor

22 January 2014 - 7:15 AM-ish

A frozen, grey, snowy day in New England

All the subtle shades of shadows cold

- Elizabeth ann Sherman-taylor

ICE DROPS PUSSYWILLOWS

13 January 2016 WEDNESDAY

     Outside from inside

     Clear white crystal ice drops

     On bare brown tree branches

     Looks like pussywillows

     Not time yet

     For pussywillows
    

   

TOILET TANK TOP

1 January 2016 Friday

                       TOILET TANK TOP

     Put away bowls, baskets, of shells

     Put out Christmas candle decorations

     Putting away Christmas candle decorations

     Why do people, including me, insist on decorating
   
     Toilet tank tops?

     Leaving the toilet tank top empty

     At least for now

     Except...well...a roll of toilet paper...

     At least for now.