As energizing as Autumn is, I’m feeling a bit resistant to the change of season with its shortening light and cold mornings. I want more Summer. I like being hot. I want more pond swimming. We only went to the beach once.
Even though this summer felt abbreviated and bipolar, there were highlights. Garden food: kale, chard, mustard greens, string beans, red okra, beets, pink amaranth, eggplant, garlic, plentiful summer squash… in fact the only produce we’ve bought since May is watermelon, lemons, limes and onions. Visits to Chris’s family house in Osterville were favorite getaways. Before I met him I’d only been to the Cape a handful of times. Its generous outer Cape beaches and clear kettle ponds, favorite restaurants and time away to walk, swim, write, sleep, cook and fish in Chris’s skiff were therapeutic and sweet; a refuge.
Nauset Beach
Blogging, with its multiple components, is modern-day scrap-booking, helping me hold on a little longer and stretch out time like the ribbons of saltwater taffy I watched being made in Gloucester when I was a child; to reflect and remember moments as they string together in greater context. It encourages savoring, recording in greater detail, nostalgia.
Finally bought a hammock
Trails around the ponds across the street
Joshua’s Pond across the street from the house
Scabby’s first fresh water dip. Only up to his elbows.
Horticultural Society’s Park down the street from the house.
Fairy houses
The Mountain skiff
Sunset cruise
Coastguard Beach
Captain Andrew’s Deck,Wellfleet: Anna, Andrew, Andala and Chris
Andrew’s oyster racks and curing garlic and shallots
Sunday night/ locals night at the Beachcomber; Incredible Casuals on stage
Moby Dick’s for lobster rolls
Andala’s Buoy collection and other treasures at her Brewster house
Our one and only breakfast spot. Walkable from the house.
El Guapo’s: favorite lunch spot. I crave their fish tacos.
Skunket Audubon refuge, Osterville
Dinner we grew and caught: Scup, tomatoes, basil, beans, summer squash, lemon chive sauce
Refrigerator dilly beans prep
Here is the recipe we used for our beans. Yum. Thank you summer. Welcome Fall.
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