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Jul 26, 2021 • #lemon #summer #Yellow

7/19/21 - Limoncello drops of loveliness

High summer brings thoughts of tart lemon flavors,  refreshing dips in the sea, late afternoon naps, and long lingering dinners with friends and family under the stars.  We're also lucky to have a few weddings on our calendar this summer - always a treat to bear witness to love in first bloom, but beyond joyous after our long dark Covid days apart.   

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Jul 11, 2021 • #art #martha's vineyard #sailing #shoes #summer

7/12/21 - Put on your sailing shoes

Do you remember Little Feat and "Put on your Sailing Shoes"?   I'm feeling a little nostalgic this week, thank you in advance for indulging me.   Above is my friend Steve's Swan 48, Dreamcatcher, moored in Katama harbor on Martha's Vineyard.   I took this photo a few summers ago, on the way out to his boat to race in the Round the Island Race.     His regular crew included a lot of our old Dartmouth college sailing teammates from the 1980s, but all of them continue to race a lot more than I do.  I got invited to this regatta for several years running, I think because I could get good restaurant reservations in Edgartown, and because I had wonderful friends in town who'd let the whole crew use their shower.

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Jul 11, 2021 • #cocktail #gardens #lilies #lily #summer

7/05/21 - Summer Pleasures - Lilies!

My lilies are going absolutely crazy this year.   What pure JOY they bring.  And what beautiful weather we've had here in Virginia this weekend.   I know some of you in New England have not been as lucky.

Fresh cut grass, picking a perfectly ripe tomato, time for puzzles and games, and a morning saunter with my coffee through the garden to see what has burst into bloom overnight.    Road trips (with Cheetos and diet cokes)  and sudden stops at farm stands. 

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Jun 09, 2021 • #gold #peony #summer

5/28/21 - Summer Gold

Is it the dawn of summer, or my youngest child's emotional college graduation weekend, or the ability to all gather again that makes me feel like we've genuinely struck gold?   I'm rereading A Gift from the Sea (yes, still on the same 90 page book I started six weeks ago).  The chapter on the rare Argonauta shell struck a chord.  The Argonauta is technically not a shell, but a creature more closely related to an octopus.  The female holds onto its cartilage "shell" only while in need of a cradle to shelter her young.  When her eggs mature and release, the mother lets go of the shell and launches off untethered and unprotected into the sea to begin her next chapter.  Mission accomplished.  Sigh.

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