Even the vacas think so. Poodle and I went down to Killington on Friday, and here are some action shots so you can see how happy she was to get there.
What a nut. She was also a leaf-peeper.
The view is crazy from my mom's house. Here, I tried to stitch two photos together so you could get the full effect. This is not a very successful effort, but it is the best I can do with the limited resources I've got, so keep your hair on.
It's quite mesmerizing in real life.
Here's a tree:
Love love love.
So, more foliage:
Poodle thought the view was pretty good from the deck, too.
Do you see her? She's kinda like Where's Waldo in this one.
Today we went to the World's Best Breakfast, then down to the rec center to play ball. I took the next picture through the windshield on River Road:
My dad's memorial service was one year ago today.
Has anybody noticed that the titles of my posts so far this month have all been song lyrics? Today's title is from one of my dad's favorite songs.
And since we started this post with a farm on our way out of town, we will end it with another farm on our way back to town.
And now, since I've already said I don't have a lot of words today, and I've already said I'm ending with a farm, here are some final words from one of my favorite poets, Billy Collins, appropriate for an October day when my eye was drawn to the acorn caps scattered under an oak tree at the cemetery.
Some Final Words
I cannot leave you without saying this:
the past is nothing,
a nonmemory, a phantom,
a soundproof closet in which Johann Strauss
is composing another waltz no one can hear.
It is a fabrication, best forgotten,
a wellspring of sorrow
that waters a field of bitter vegetation.
Leave it behind.
Take your head out of your hands
and arise from the couch of melancholy
where the window-light falls against your face
and the sun rides across the autumn sky,
steely behind the bare trees,
glorious as the high strains of violins.
But forget Strauss.
And forget his younger brother,
the poor bastard who was killed in a fall
from a podium while conducting a symphony.
Forget the past,
forget the stunned audience on its feet,
the absurdity of their formal clothes
in the face of sudden death,
forget their collective gasp,
the murmur and huddle over the body,
the creaking of the lowered curtain.
Forget Strauss
with that encore look in his eye
and his tiresome industry:
more than five hundred finished compositions!
He even wrote a polka for his mother.
That alone is enough to make me flee the past,
evacuate its temples,
and walk alone under the stars
down these dark paths strewn with acorns,
feeling nothing but the crisp October air,
the swing of my arms
and the rhythm of my stepping --
a man of the present who has forgotten
every composer, every great battle,
just me,
a thin reed blowing in the night.
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