Day 7

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The metal on the </div> <div> old apple tree is to protect it from porcupines.</div> <bR> <div> Morning at Chimney Farm</div> <div> June 16, 2008</div> <bR> <div> Chickadee, catbird, song sparrow</div> <div> sing from nearby trees, bushes.</div> <div> To the east, glimpses of Damariscotta Lake.</div> <div> Moist sky hangs low.</div> <div> Lake gray, sky gray-</div> <div> all the same.</div> <bR> <div> A stillness here. </div> <div> This old house, old farm-</div> <div> birthplace of so many</div> <div> words, books, feelings</div> <div> carrying on beyond</div> <div> Henry's life, Elizabeth's life.</div> <div> A peaceful quiet</div> <div> as I gaze out second floor window</div> <div> old typewriter by my side.</div> <bR> <div> Last evening</div> <div> at small graveyard</div> <div> old stonewall behind</div> <div> I looked down toward house</div> <div> beyond lupine in bloom</div> <div> looked down through fields</div> <div> beyond apple trees</div> <div> glimpsed water even further below</div> <div> thought of how sight flowed</div> <div> always further</div> <div> from where I stood</div> <div> from where Henry, Elizabeth lie.</div> <bR> <div> Their vision now left in books</div> <div> left in words still carrying on</div> <div> left in this house, this land</div> <div> this stillness of a June morning.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b6f4770.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="375" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Old typewriter at Chimney Farm.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b7f4770.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="375" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Gary putting out the donkeys, Damariscotta Lake in the background.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b8f41a0.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="282" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Moodys, a Route 1 institution for decades. Had a good breakfast</div> <div> here for a very reasonable price.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c0f4770.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="375" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Mary and her daughter, Jasmine, at Moody's Gift Shop, next to the diner.</div> <div> This wasn't here when I last stopped at Moody's. Spent nearly an hour here</div> <div> talking with Mary and then her daughter about Maine, families, creativity, spirituality.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b93b900.jpg" border=0 width="315" height="400" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Osprey over Medomak River, at Waldoboro Town landing.</div> <div> There was a pair soaring above. I was hoping for one to dive</div> <div> in after a fish, but that didn't occur. I've seen that a few times</div> <div> in the past and it's always impressive.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2baf4770.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="375" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Inside S. Fernald's/Waldoboro 5 & 10. Nice old-time atmosphere</div> <div> and once again good talk with owner, Sumner and his emplyees. </div> <div> Crystal, one of the workers, starting her first day there, asked me for a poem,</div> <div> so I recited "Seeing Eye to Eye with a Chickadee" while some customers</div> <div> and the staff listened. Later Crystal recited a poem for me. We decided to</div> <div> have a reading there Thursday night. So I put together a flier at the library</div> <div> and I've added another reading to the schedule! Looking forward to seeing</div> <div> how it turns out.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2bbf4770.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="375" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> I didn't know these still existed!</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2bcf4770.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="375" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The church dates back to 1772.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2bdf4770.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="375" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Graveyard and church in the fog.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2bef4770.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="375" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Lobster traps soon heading out, Round Pond.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>