Summer Supercut

Summer Supercut

In the midst of political and social unrest, work, and change...
Things were alright this summer. The power of love and nature persists.

Stuck

It's the summer of being stuck again. I don't expect this post to mean anything to anybody, but I'd like it to be here so I can see it someday and remember how I was feeling right before breaking out to do my own thing for a living.

Porch of Avalon

Currently reading Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Currently sipping Campari + Soda. It smells like Peonies, Grass, Tar, and Homefries. There is some Yellow Pollen in my sweater. It sounds like Birds. I can hear the Neighborhood all around me.

Some Pig

      I love harvest-time fairs. Have you read Charlotte's Web by E.B. White?  I count myself as one of the many kids in New England who have. I took these pictures at the Blue Hill Fair in Maine, USA last year. It's the same fair where Fern entered Wilbur the pig.

1. Fried Dough - powdered sugar topping is better than tomato sauce toppings ALWAYS
2. Stake out water-stream shooting games. Always figure out which guns are best for winning the giant stuffed bears before you shell out cash
3. Tractor pulls [power-sport motoring competitions of pure brawn] are extremely noisey and raise a hell-storm of mud and exhaust (YEAHH!)
4. Vegetables can be bigger than you

Goodbye Summer

       Photodiary of a summer weekend.

Watermelon

      Pretty much all I've accomplished today is eating an entire watermelon with a spoon and listening to Ben E. King records.

↑ Private

      I love watermelons and I don't care how sticky I get when I'm eating them because, you know, it's summertime.  You know who else loves watermelons? JAPAN!

↑ $300 square watermelon. Photo by laughlin

↑ $230 portable watermelon cooler keeps your melon cool and can even heat it up. Via JOYBOND

↑ Gas tank in Tomisato, Chiba prefecture. Via This is my brother!

      Lastly, a scene from the film Kikujiro (1999). Takeshi Kitano plays a totally gauche but endearing grump who finds himself playing guardian to dorky little Masao. They have lots of weird adventures out in rural Japan enroute looking for Masao's mom. And they eat watermelons.

Happy eating, friends!