PULLING WORDS BLIND FROM MAGNETIC POETRY KIT

      Mid-November 2018. 
     A while now, OK with being a landlubber, suburbanite, two hours away from a beach community, sand, ocean, salt air, not having been to any such location in at least two years, for various reasons.
     18 November 2018, Sunday, 11:30 AM-ish.
      Pulled out my Magnetic Poetry Kit. Haven't written a thing in quite some time. Maybe this will jog some words out of my head, mind, onto a magnetic board. 
      Pulled words blind, like drawing letters for a SCRABBLE game. 
     
     Color
     Sea
     Smell

     Me
     You
     Awesome

Rearranged the words:

     Color me
     Sea you
     Smell awesome

What are the chances of drawing these words blind?  
Beach, ocean, salt air, surfacing, still deep within my psyche, no matter what.            

#9 Day: ONCE UPON A TIME - Dragons, Knights, Pirates ("Sea Turtles, Mate"), Beach Shells and Stones, Wellfleet Drive-In Flea MarketTreasures, Treasures, Brought From My Family's House/Home, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA To My House/Home Here, Milford, MA

#9 DAY: The Shire Book Shop, Franklin, MA (not far from here, Milford, MA); #9 Mathematics, Marilyn vos Savant, PARADE paper newspaper magazine

#9 DAY: ONCE UPON A TIME- 2014, Milford, MA, Mal Elfman's of Waltham, "Nobody Beats The Elf"

"Gathering Memories"*, The Big Apple (*Hallmark Days of Childhood Sculpted by Duane Unruh 1988 Hallmark Cards Inc)

"Gathering Memories" reminds me of my Mom

"Birthday Girl" (July Birthday, Gifted In September)

"Birthday Girl" is SO exuberant! 

Once Upon A Time: Autumn - Hiding In Plain Sight, Milford, MA

Change of Seasons Dilemma Time Again 2018

Leave the window air conditioners in a bit longer
Or
Take them out

Leave the screen doors in a bit longer
Or
Take them out and put the storm doors in

Leave the Spring/Summer furniture on the porches a bit longer
OR
Put the porch Spring/Summer furniture away in storage

There might still be a few Spring/Summer feel days ahead...or not...

Change of seasons dilemma time again 2018

2 October 2016 Sunday (Weather much like today 2018, not as much to observe)

Morning trip to CVS for "Boston Sunday Globe" paper newspaper

Cool, grey, misty

RAIN! Finally

Mist feels good caressing my face

Summer moved directly into Autumn

The other side of the weather coin

Seeing women

Dressed in changeover medium weight clothing

All fashion styles of boots

One holdout in capri pants

And flip-flops

Morning - 26 September 2018 Wednesday

Warm Damp Gray

Tropical

Changing seasons weather day


Barefoot flip-flops sandals

Kind of day

Morning - 25 September 2018 Tuesday

Cool damp gray

Changing seasons weather day


Bright socks colors, "The Kiss" painting 

Well worn comfortable sneakers shoes kind of day

(Serene) At Louisa Lake, Upper Charles River Trail Park, Milford, MA - April 23rd, 2018, Monday

SERENELY SWIMMING
GENTLE RIPPLES ON THE POND
BEAUTIFUL WHITE SWANS
- Courtney Beth Taylor
-Undated
(I rescued from shredder pile 01/03/2018)

 

(Not So Serene) At Louisa Lake, Upper Charles River Trail Park, Milford, MA, April 23rd 2018, Monday

(Honking) At Louisa Lake, Upper Charles River Trail Park, Milford, MA - April 23rd 2018, Monday

ROCKER

Can't just sit in a rocking chair

Have to rock, back and forth

Even just a toes little rock

Can't just stand cradling a baby

Have to rock, side to side

Even just a feet little rock 

Rock-a-bye baby

Rocker

THRESHOLD

At the threshold of G/god/s
Outside looking in

At the threshold of G/god/s
Inside looking out

Walking away

Not G/god/s

MAGNETIC WORDS KIT - TODAY IS AWESOME

MAGNETIC WORDS KIT - MAGIC CASTLE LULLABIES

MAGNETIC WORDS KIT - IMAGINATIONS

MAGNETIC WORDS KIT - SUMMER MUSINGS

I AM PUBLISHED - "2014 FROM 1953", PAGE 119, "BEST POETS OF 2016:VOLUME 4", 2017, EBER & WEIN PUBLISHING

I AM PUBLISHED - "OLD-FASHIONED WRITING", PAGE 73, "AMERICAN POET:VOLUME 3", 2016, EBER & WEIN PUBLISHING

I AM PUBLISHED - "SKELETON KEY", PAGE 199, "BEYOND THE SEA: SERENITY", 2015, EBER & WEIN PUBLISHING

I AM PUBLISHED: "MORNING EXERCISE", PAGE 221, "BEST POETS OF 2015, VOLUME 5", EBER & WEIN PUBLISHING

ONCE UPON A TIME: DEPOT STREET - STREET, RAILROAD TRACKS, VERNON GROVE CEMETERY - MILFORD, MA

ONCE UPON A TIME: MY PART OF TOWN, SOUTH MAIN STREET(DEPOT STREET), MILFORD, MA

ONCE UPON A TIME: VIEW OF TOWN HALL (WHITE), SACRED HEART CHURCH (BROWN STONE), MILFORD, MA

ONCE UPON A TIME: ABANDONED RAILROAD TRACKS, SOUTH MAIN STREET (DEPOT STREET), MILFORD, MA

ONCE UPON A TIME: DEPOT STREET/SOUTH MAIN STREET, MILFORD, MA

ONCE UPON A TIME: FLAG INTERSECTION, MY PART OF TOWN, MILFORD, MA

ONCE UPON A TIME: CANADA GEESE, CLOUDS, SKY, THROUGH TELEPHONE WIRES (MILFORD, MA)

ONCE UPON A TIME: MOON, CLOUDS, SKY, OVER ROYAL BUDDHA RESTAURANT (MILFORD, MA)

ONCE UPON A TIME: CRESCENT MOON AND WHITE PINE TREE (MILFORD, MA)

ONCE UPON A TIME: CRESCENT MOON THROUGH TELEPHONE WIRES #2 (MILFORD, MA)

ONCE UPON A TIME: CRESCENT MOON THROUGH TELEPHONE WIRES #1 (MILFORD, MA)

ONCE UPON A TIME: 3 MOON SHOTS, OVEREXPOSED (MILFORD, MA)

SPEICAL THINGS HAPPEN ON AND OR AROUND SUMMER SOLSTICE

Today is my lucky day

Found a penny at the library

Before grocery shopping
A dragonfly landed and sat on my left arm 

After grocery shopping
I found two pennies 

Special things happen on and or around Summer Solstice 

ONCE UPON A TIME: FATHER'S DAY CAR SHOW AND BREAKFAST, HOLLISTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HOLLISTON, MA (JUNE)

ONCE UPON A TIME: MILFORD, MA & CAPE COD, MA - MAY 25th & MAY 26TH 2007

#637 - At The Beach: It's Birds! It's a Plane!

Sea Gull Beach, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA

Photos by Elizabeth

#636 - Girlfriend, Boyfriend, Parents, At The Beach

Sea Gull Beach, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA

Photo By Elizabeth

#635 - Beach: Light & Shadow, Chasing Sea Gulls

Sea Gull Beach, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA 

Photo By Elizabeth

#634 - BLOOMSNEEZEALOT, BOARDWALK TO THE BEACH

Sea Gull Beach, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA

Photo By Elizabeth

#633 - SEA GULLS: SUN SPARKLED OCEAN, LIGHT, SHADOW, REFLECTION

Sea Gull Beach, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA

Photo By Elizabeth

#631 - Once Upon A Time: Boardwalk To Sand, Sun Sparkled Ocean

Sea Gull Beach, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA

Photo By Elizabeth 

#630 - OCEAN, SUN SPARKLED, SAILING

Sea Gull Beach, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA

Photo By Elizabeth

WIND: SKY, OCEAN, LAND

Sea Gull Beach, West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA

Photo By Elizabeth 

NATURE'S VERSION OF "HARRY POTTER" SORTING HAT

Photo By Me - Elizabeth 

BLABBERMOUTH

29 April 2018 Sunday
Magnetic Words Poetry Kit, Photo By Me - Elizabeth

Book
Pages
Tell

Secrets

NON-MOTORCYCLES DIARY

02 May 2018 Wednesday

8:45 AM - Sun, warm

Motorcycle Season
Motorcyclists, eat your hearts out!

Driving down the street
In my car

Windows wide open
Air conditioning cranking

Wahoo!

10:33 AM - 93 D/F, 14% humidity, direct sun front porch thermometer

Wasps and Big Fat Bumblebees

Front porch Summer furniture put out this past Saturday 28 April 2018 

WINDCHIMES WHISPERER

Mother's Day (May 13th Sunday) Gift Ideas For Me
To My Husband and Therefore Our Daughter

Texting with my husband Joseph Scott Taylor 

01 May 2018 Tuesday

To Joe 7:16 AM - How about another outside pole or two to hang a couple more wind chimes outside at a time?

From Joe 7:19 AM - Only if you come along and pick them out. A trip to (Hopkinton, MA) Weston Nursery should take care of it. And we can get a Snappy Dog while there.  

To Joe 7:56 AM - I just want another pole or two to hang wind chimes I already have. Do not need more wind chimes. Want if when I see them maybe. Need? No!

02 May 2018 Wednesday

To Joe 2:19 PM - Special request when you get home tonight (from work). Hang a wind chime (higher than I feel comfortable reaching on a stool, knee issue) here inside in kitchen for me. Another wind chime I was able to fix as best I could. I fixed 3 wind chimes today. 2 are already hanging. Nice to have time to do this sort of stuff.

I also fixed a few other wind chimes a bit ago. Stormy weather broke ties, made the wind chimes lose pipes, decorative pieces of wind chimes. I found most or all of the pieces, used thin wire we had around the house, figured they could be put back together, maybe 100% or a bit less. Not always like the original wind chime, but close enough. If you don't look closely, most of the time you can't really tell they were repaired. Not hugely expensive. Other people would maybe have just gotten rid of them, probably in the trash. I like them and deemed them worth repairing if I could as best I could. I  could and I did, as best as I possibly could.   

Finally enjoying my retirement, age 65 (January 20th birthday). A right knee cap fracture September 2017, the final week my boss was closing our office, I would have retired the next week, delayed my retirement enjoyment.  

GARDENING (APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS, APRIL POETRY MONTH)

Magnetic Words Poetry Kit - 28 April 2018 Saturday 8:00 AM

GARDENING

Silly handsome gnome

Dragons winging

Butterflys

Flower power

Sun water

Soft dirt

Fireflys glow

Moonlight

You sparkle

Love grows

CHRISTMAS IN APRIL 2018

28 April 2018 Saturday

     To CVS this morning 8:36 AM for paper newspapers. "Boston Globe" - yes. "Milford Daily News" - no. 
     To Rite-Aid, "Milford Daily News" - no.
     Must be a delivery issue/ problem.
     "Milford Daily News" is so thin, $1.00, $1.50? But it has a JUMBLE Word Puzzle from yesterday I couldn't quite figure out, solution today.
     Found a penny at Rite-Aid!
     Medium little, girl, shoulder length dark hair. Shoes/sneakers, black pants with sparkles, long-sleeved red shirt with "Santa's Little Helper" on the front.
     OK! Today is April 28th. Maybe no other shirt to wear until laundry day. Maybe she didn't even think or care about it. Maybe she just really, really, really likes this shirt.
     Perhaps something our daughter Courtney would have done.
     Too Funny.
     Christmas in April.
     I figured out the JUMBLE on my own.      

FLOATING IN FIELDS OF FANTASIES

Once upon a time a long time ago

In a land far, far, far away

Floating in Fields of Fantasies

One Foot Terra Firma Found

Two Feet Terra Firma Bound

- 21 September 2012 

APPLE, DAPPLE, GRAPPLE

In order to gravity grapple,

Newton sat under the dapple

Of the leaves of a tree that dropped apples.

- 6 November 2012

A-P-P-L-E: 24 APRIL 2018 TUESDAY

     Nary an apple tree in our front yard, or anywhere near our front yard. No trees at this point in time. Just majestic old white pine tree stumps, one stump on each side of the front sidewalk. Branches were falling, it could have been dangerous. Sad days when we cut them down.

Texting with my husband Joseph Scott Taylor

To Joe 12:28 PM - A whole fresh green apple has appeared in our O'Grady side front yard. I saw it yesterday still there today. Took a photo of course.

From Joe 12:30 PM - I thought that you probably put out there for the birds or critters.

To Joe 12:42 PM - I would have put a birds or critters treat out back.

To Joe 12:49 PM - I do not usually buy green apples.
     
    So where did the whole fresh green apple come from?
No marks on it like squirrel teeth bites or bird beaks picking at it.
Would our next door neighbors have thrown it into our yard?
Would someone driving by throw it out of their car, over the not high hedge plants and up the incline to our yard?
Would someone walking by on the no sidewalk this side of the street throw it over the not high hedge plants and up the incline to our yard?
     So where did the whole fresh green apple come from?
               Magic?

Green Apple: movies - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: Curse Of The Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest, At World's End

A-P-P-L-E

A-P-P-L-E: GREEN APPLE - IN AN UNLIKELY PLACE

CAFE: MARCH WINTER SPRING 2013

Sitting in a café March Winter Spring 2013

Cold drinks, hot coffee, hot cocoa, hot tea

Hot soup, cold salad, fruit

Sandwich, bread, dessert, pastry

Surrounded by, absorbing, bustle

Winter Spring skiing for some

Fluffy bulky parkas, snow pants

LL Bean, Ugg

Boots, hats, gloves, mittens, socks, scarves

Colors dyed, materials assembled

Stitched, knit from far away lands

Snow, slush, ice, cold, breeze wind chill

Outside

Daydreaming

Inside

Purchased some shampoo

Suave

Ocean Breeze

Staring at the Mermaid face and crowned hair like Starbucks logo

Sun, sand, warm

Beckoning

Sitting in a café Winter Spring March 2013

A TOUCH OF THE TROPICS, SUMMER - FEBRUARY 2018

12:15 PM-ish - Sun, warm, gold sparkle, sun, wind chimes
Sunny, warm, a bit of breeze to lightly tinkle the gold sparkling, sun, wind chimes

Sitting on front porch, perfect flavor yogurt snack
Toasted Coconut Vanilla
A touch of the tropics
Summer
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Can't get away from it, even if I want to
And sometimes I do want to get away from it
Nostalgia
Lately I've been OK without it, for a while
But here it comes while sitting on the front porch
With my Toasted Coconut Vanilla flavor yogurt snack
A business vehicle, traffic in front of my house front porch
Ocean State Oil
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Lunch On The Front Porch
Chicken Of The Sea Solid White Albacore Tuna
Tuna with Mayonnaise and Black Pearls Olives

A bird in the bush
Hopped to the railing
A Chipping Sparrow? The beak maybe a Finch?
Brown
Checked me out
Flitted away

The breeze is now chilly
Chased me inside
Never mind
Plenty to do inside
Dishes
Still cleaning out "stuff"
Cleaning...

1:04 PM - 64 Degrees F, 16% humidity, sunny, breezy, cool in the shade

FEBRUARY WINTER SPRING BREAK WEATHER OBSERVATIONS

18 February - 24 February 2018 Sunday - Saturday
A mix of weather including February thaw - 70's F in direct sun
February thaw - brown and black fuzzy caterpillar, little baby green grasshopper, redwing blackbird rusty hinge call, and - skunk! (No skunk spray smell this time around.)
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23, 24 February 2017 Thursday and Friday

60 Degrees F Winter Spring Break Weather

A young couple, both tall and slim, casual dressed for Spring

Holding hands, swinging, walking on busy Route 140

No sidewalk, didn't matter

Exuding exuberant aura of perfectly matched

Or was it just in my mind

They were perfectly matched

Because it was such a lovely

Winter Spring Break Weather

Day
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Bird twitters
I've already heard a robin, earlier this year, wondered if it wintered over or was an early arrival.
I've heard a few more.
And redwing blackbirds rusty hinge rasp
Harbinger of Spring,.
Waiting for peepers peeping
Then I'll know its Spring.

TREASURE SHIPS - PRESENT DAY JEWELRY ADVERTISEMENTS

COMPASS ROSE NECKLACE

   I am not a stranger to the nautical having grown up Cape Cod, MA usa, early 1950's, until I attended Framingham State College (now up-branded to Framingham State University) and settled off-Cape after college mid to late 1970's. My parents and other relatives and friends lived there their remaining lives. I went back to see my Cape Cod family often. Not during Summer, peak tourist season, if I could help it.        

     Several years ago now, I saw the Compass Rose Necklace in a Cross Jewelers, Portland, ME paper advertisement and purchased what I could afford.
     I just really liked it.
     I found out later that my niece and nephew-in law sold this line at the time in their jewelry store,
M. K. Benatti, 11 State Street, Newburyport, MA 01950, also.
I felt so bad. 
     I wore it every day for a long time.
     I lost it once. I searched the area where I worked, nothing. I
shook out the clothes I was wearing, nothing. I despaired it was lost for good.
     One 

evening, in the bathroom, looking down, something shone. I looked down under the edge of the sink - the Compass Rose disk had re-appeared.
     I never found the chain. I replaced the chain with a purchase from Baza Jewelers here in Milford, MA. I go to Baza Jewelers if I need or want something locally. Not often, but Mr. Baza has always been gracious when I have visited. I think it was our daughters joined Girl Scouts, and my daughter and his children went to Milford Public School, probably not the same grades.  
   I stopped wearing my Compass Rose Necklace for a little after fracturing my right knee cap last September. I took it off to go to hospital for my successful operation, and didn't put it on again.
   Until recently. I have started wearing it again.
   I haven't bought any other piece of jewelry from Cross Jewelers, Portland, ME. 
   They advertise in the paper Sunday magazine "GLOBE MAGAZINE", which comes in the "BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE" paper newspaper. I look to see what they are advertising in that printing.   
     They have my address, continue to send me paper catalogs.
     I pore through their paper catalogs,
     Window shopping.
     Maybe something, some other day.
     From any of these jewelry stores.
     Or not.      

LIGHTHOUSE - BLIZZARD WEEKEND FEBRUARY 8 + 9, 2013

The Lighthouse

Salt ocean spray solidified

Covered in ice

Frozen in time

SAILOR'S STEW - COMFORT FOOD

YES, I HAVE SEEN THIS WEATHER COLOR GREEN

06 February 2018 Tuesday
Dayrise.
Light grey white grey violet grey blue grey.
A line of white gold along the horizon.
My horizon is tree tops.
It used to be ocean.

Yes, I have seen this weather color green.
Inland as well as coast.
I just didn't know how to describe it. 

Here is how Nora Roberts describes it in HEART OF THE SEA, Chapter Eighteen
"Had you ever seen that green tint to the clouds' edges before? Had  you ever tasted air that had such a flavor of mean in it?"
"She would hit, they said, and hit hard."

"A storm hovered over the village, marching down from the northeast to camp on the border as an army digs in for a siege. The rising winds and splattering rain that were its leading edge chased people from the beaches, and brought a nasty chill. The sky, thick and bruised and ominous, had even the locals glancing upward with apprehension.
     Had you ever seen that green tint to the clouds' edges before? Had you ever tasted air that had such a flavor of mean in it?
     She would hit, they said, and hit hard.
     Those who'd been through such things before checked their stock of candles and lamp oil and batteries. Supplies were laid in, and children ordered to stay close to home. Boats were secured in their docks as Ardmore prepared for the coming battle."  
      HEART OF THE SEA by Nora Roberts

Yes, I have seen this weather color green.
Inland as well as coast.
I just didn't know how to describe it.

Dayrise
Light gray white grey violet grey blue grey.
A line of white gold at the horizon.
My horizon is tree tops.
It used to be ocean.

OWLS - January 25th 2018 Thursday

Texting with my husband Joe

Me, 5:02 A.M.: "Yesterday A.M. and this A.M. I think I hear an owl 'who-who-who'."

Joe, 5:40 A.M.: "Owl or mourning dove?"

Me, 5:43 A.M.: "Hmmm...still going with owl first impression and not sure mourning doves coo at this tie during night early early morning."

Joe, 6:00 A.M.: "If you heard an owl it was probably a Great Horned Owl. According to Mass Audubon they can be found throughout the state, most commonly in winter. I emailed you a link to a series of owl sounds Check them out and see if it was a Great Horned Owl that you heard."

Me, 6:14 A.M.: "The bird presentations people at library events we have attended say owls are around this area also."

Me, 2:09 P.M.: "Sounds like a Great Horned Owl."     

The Owl

Blue tourmaline eyes.

Historic Eureka Discovery

JANUARY 20TH 2018 SATURDAY - MY 65TH BIRTHDAY

Gorgeous January Thaw Weekend, So Many Times It Snows, Blizzards

Texting with my husband Joe, he and our daughter looking for birthday gift ideas for me, and results

Joe: "Courtney is looking for ideas on what to give you for your birthday. Is there anything you would like me to pass onto her for ideas?"  

Me: "You and she both could give me a photo album or 2 to put actual photos in. I think about 4" by 6" photos."

Joe: "Anything else?"

Me: "Nothing else I can think of at the moment. Oh, wait - a knee that works 100 percent! (:0)"

Me: "I have another gift idea. Socks. Let Courtney know also."

Me: "Another gift idea for me. Hood sweatshirt that zips up front has pockets size Large. Like the Cape Cod sweatshirt I wear all the time."  

Asked and received - socks (art: Starry Night, The Scream - Courtney's younger self did The Scream, The Kiss, 2nd pair of Mona Lisa), an elephant design hooded with pockets, front zip sweatshirt, photo album in a cloth bag bright emerald green good for St. Patrick's Day; an elephant design carry bag Courtney found at a Good Will store near where she lives in CT was my Christmas present. Winter weather issues prevented her coming here since Thanksgiving.   

WINTER SOLSTICE 2017