“I stand penciled against the winter twilight, a silhouette for dreams.”
Anonymous
TIME: 5:16 PM
PLACE: South of town
SUBJECT: Fence & Tree
HH and I abandoned left the children in DramaQueen’s capable hands this evening to attend an annual membership dinner for one of HH’s clubs. On the way, I snapped this silhouette while we were sitting at an intersection, waiting for the light to change.
“The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks and gapes for drink again;”
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), British poet. Drinking (l. 1-2). . . Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose, Vols. I-II. Vol. I: 1600-1660; Vol. II: 1660-1700. Helen C. White, Ruth C. Wallerstein, and Ricardo Quintana, eds. (1951, 1952) The Macmillan Company.
TIME: 5:38 PM
PLACE: Back driveway
SUBJECT: Outline in driveway of HH’s work van after the rain
It rained this afternoon. And it cooled down to 76 degrees. AND the HH is working overtime. Cha-Ching!
