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Showing posts with label photographs. Show all posts

Saturday, October 31, 2015

OCTOBER 2015


October is a beautiful month in New England. Here are some of my favorite photos I took
this year in Abington and surrounding towns, along with a poem by Robert Frost:





Mt. Vernon Cemetery, Abington, Ma.



Luddam's Ford, Pembroke, Ma.





St. Bridget's Church, Abington, Ma.

October

O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
 

Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow.
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know.
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away.
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
Slow, slow!
For the grapes’ sake, if they were all,
Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,
Whose clustered fruit must else be lost—
For the grapes’ sake along the wall.


-Robert Frost




Mt. Vernon Cemetery, Abington, Ma.





Fern Hill Cemetery, Hanson,  Ma.





Cranberry Bog, Plympton, Ma.




Cranberry Bog, Plympton, Ma.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

MOM & THE COUSINS








The other day at the bookstore I heard a familiar voice say "Billy!"

Well, only those who knew me as a kid or who are related to me
use that name and when I turned around I saw two of my cousins
had stopped in to see if I was there.

Actually they're my second cousins, Nancy and Margie, daughters
of my grandmother Agnes' sister Peggy.


Yikes, that's so convoluted!


Anyway we talked a bit and I told them I'd started this blog and
that I had scanned some pictures they might like to see. Neither
of them are online themselves but I got the email addresses
of two of their kids who do and I promised I'd send the pictures
along to them.


This picture is one. Left to right it's Nancy, someone who may
be either cousin Anna or cousin Peggy, then Margie and then my
mom Anne. It was taken outside of the same triple decker that
appears in the wedding photo of my parents I've published
here.


Mom spent a lot of time with her cousins when she was younger
and they were as close as sisters. Both Margie and Nancy were
in Mom's wedding party and Nancy is my godmother. And both
of them went on to long happy marriages and large families.

I'd just thought I'd post this here too before I crawl off to bed!