North Shore

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out

I am off to enjoy a week-long vacation. So I won’t be posting here. Or anywhere. That’s what vacations are about.

Tealuxe in Cambridge

Strolling in Cambridge

In late December, I took a trip to Cambridge to see my friend Jamie – I have not seen since him he visited me about 7 years ago while I was living in Northampton. Jamie was in town for interviews. I took some photos as we strolled about Harvard Square before meeting up with him. I don’t know why I didn’t publish this blog entry before. Oh well.

Cape May photo gallery

This gallery includes mostly architecture as well as some shots from the top of the Cape May lighthouse. The sunset photos were taken at the Crabhouse, which is between Cape May and Wildwood Crest, New Jersey.

the back side of summer

I am back from vacation and feeling a bit reflective. I have plenty of photos and memories to digest as I take in the reality that my week at the beach is over. The overarching theme of the week was heat. I think that, when I wished for it to be hot during our vacation, that I should have been a little bit more specific – perhaps qualifying it with a request for hot during the day for the beach, and cooler as the sun went down. Oh and of course I should have asked for zero humidity. For many of the days I don’t remember the temperature changing much from 9 in the morning to noon to 9 at night. My body had various reactions to the heat. For a few days I was overcome with an exhaustion and at times I would feel a bit nauseated. While I managed to keep from getting a horrible sunburn, my skin did break out in a rash in various places (no doubt a result of spending an extended period of time in the sun for the first time in a long time) and I was unable to be outside at night for long periods of time because mosquitoes seem to find me irresistible.

Other than that, I can’t find much else to complain about. Days swimming in the Atlantic, shopping for needless things, visiting wineries, evenings sharing meals with friends, all made this vacation go down as one of the best I’ve had. Next time I’ll try not to schedule it during a heat wave.

Pictures to follow at some point.

Providence is beautiful

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Postcard

hey, i’m going on vacation on Saturday. One of my favorite things to do is buy postcards. One problem: I always forget addresses of people to send postcards to.

If you have a hankering for a postcard, send my your mailing address. send it to sighclub @ gmail.com.

That way I’ll have it saved in my gmail and can find it easily. In the subject line write: Send me a postcard!

I know. I’m weird. I embrace it.

catching up

this is what i have been doing to keep busy lately (in no specific order)

1. Friday’s Holyoke Giants game. Those games pretty much rule the universe, especially when the second-to-last place Giants play the last-place Lowell All-Americans and nearly lose, only to come back in the ninth and tenth innings. Yeah, so the Giants aren’t so good this year. Those games are still so much fun.
2. The Green River Festival. More north of route niners than you can shake a vegan potluck flier at. (what???) More on that here.

3. Planning vacation to the jersey shore. Hell yeah.
4. Getting a bobblehead in the mail (photos to follow at some point)
5. working a lot
6. walking around the neighborhood and loving it (all except for that night the jerk’s next door decided to have a loud party and keep me up past 3:00 a.m.
7. Getting two strange bug bites on my arms. Both were in almost
exactly the same spot. They were not mosquito bites. They are still
red, although the itching finally went away as of a few hours ago.

8. This afternoon I scrubbed my tub and now I am doing laundry.

interlude

I met my grandmother’s sharecropper while I was home in PA this weekend. I like to call him the sharecropper, but he’s really just a nice old man who comes around to tend to and harvest the garden that used to belong to her father (my great grandfather). We were out taking a morning walk and stopped to see the garden, when Jim pulled up in his royal blue Ford F100 (photo not of actual car). He got out of the car with a smile. I introduced myself. He pointed out what all of the different vegetables were: eggplant, corn, cabbage, pepper, tomatoes, potatoes. He told me my grandmother likes tomatoes and complained about the weeds and the rabbits.