‘Play It Again Sam’ — pat morss

In spite of this being a slight misquotation from the 1942 classic film Casablanca, it is applicable to some of the repetetive routines around here.

Sailing a quiet Gloucester Harbor after Labor Day. Birds starting their migrations south.
Thomas E Lannon and our other schooners are maintaining daily visitor and locals sailings.
Cruise ships on weekly schedules; Holland America Lines ‘Volendam’ passing while still dark.
Royal Caribbean ‘Vision of the Seas’ coming in by the whistle buoy at dawn.
Princess Cruises ‘Enchanted Princess’ heading out from Boston toward Canada or Bermuda.
Down on our deck, Mom turkey’s single kid is growing up. They look hassled.
On Niles Pond, a Green Heron must have been watching ‘Little Blue.’
He caught a frog and flew it over to the exact same dining rock Little Blue (Heron) uses.
Meanwhile, Little Blue was over at Brace Cove checking out the salt water marketplace.
The many young deer are maturing, like this proud-to-be-a-Whitetail.
Either it runs in the family, or this is the same single-antler deer as last summer.
A tender moment with a very late in the season Bambi.

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