A good place to leave and return to...

For travel to be delightful, one must have a good place to leave and return to.
-- Frederick B. Wilcox

A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.
-- Moslih Eddin Saadi

Find what brings you joy and go there.
-- Jan Phillips

He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.
-- Chinese Proverb

No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.
-- Elbert Hubbard

No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell.
-- Jewish Proverb

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety Jig. Back in Massachusetts again, six hours of pretty easy travel, foggy at the start and hot at the destination. We'll be back to the house in Maine in a couple of weeks for another short stay, then a longer one with four very close friends in late August & early September. I traded my yellow warblers for two very happy felines at home. Lots of purrs and kisses, no hard feelings, they were treated like royalty by our sitter. The bags are unpacked, the television has the big match and I'm a bit tired.

We woke early this morning, leaving before six. Everything had a blue cast, and it was extremely foggy. I know that when we wake tomorrow we'll be surprised that we can't smell the sea and hear the yellow warblers starting their day. We've lived by the tides and thankfully it takes some time lose those rhythms.

Cabinet of memories

August, an original oil painting

Here's an old photograph with our house in the middle, the house on the right suffered the same fate as our barn, a sad cave-in from neglect, years ago, when I was very little.

House, back view

70th blip in a row today!