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65th

It seemed appropriate for the 65th birthday that we climb Baldpate, in westernmost Maine:
Baldpate 16 September
…a lovely cool day, and an opportunity to Wear The Fox Hat

Just back from Monhegan

We’ve lived just down the road from the ferry to Monhegan Island for the last 3 years, but hadn’t ventured out there until today. Unfortunately, the digital camera chose this morning to announce its retirement (thus creating an Opportunity for the impending Birthday Month), so I was unable to record anything of Monhegan’s fabled visual wonders. It occurred to me that Flickr might stand in for me, and sure enough a quick search discloses more than 6000 images tagged ‘Monhegan’ and quite a few of the first hundred-odd will give an idea of why people rave about the island. We walked about half of the cliffy Atlantic side, mostly in hazy/foggy obscurity, and clearly it’s worth many return trips.

Found in the barn

We’ve been cleaning up stuff in the Nova Scotia house, opening boxes that haven’t seen the light of day in 10 and even 20 years. One contained this set of favorite coffee cups of the past:
once-favorite coffee cups

I can remember the feel of each of them, and recall the sense of loss as, one by one, their handles broke and a successor had to be chosen from the trove of Karen Truesdell cups. The cleanup task has had lots of similar moments of remembrance.