Author: Marty Luster

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. . . Henry David Thoreau

. . . at Long Wharf on Jones Creek.

 Chris and Barb from Pittsfield, Ma. spent a delightful 6 hours cruising Jones Creek, the Annisquam and Lobster Cove in their kayaks. They visited the Annisquam Light and Wingaersheek Beach. Chris and Barb experienced the full range of the tide, leaving at morning high and returning near dead low. See below.

OH, AT HIS WEDDING WITH KAREN SHERMAN

BUT WAIT, WHAT’S GOING ON ON TOP OF THAT CAKE?!

                                 Woman in The Marsh

On a breezy day I was looking out over the fresh water marsh;

the cattails and grasses swaying, rustling, weaving and merging

and making my vision grow blurry and my eyes tired.

It was warm, but the air had the color of autumn and the

scent of the nearby ocean induced a dream.

From the gently dancing grasses, from the moistened soil,

from the sea-infused ether and the autumn tinted marsh there appeared a woman.

At first I thought her to be  a stalk of rare vegetation,

with a head of tightly wound cauliflower-like flower buds.

But, no, it was a woman in the marsh.

Marty Luster

Out at the end of Bearskin Neck, out past the Fudgery, past Helmut’s Strudel Shop,

past Bradley Wharf and Motif #1, past The Barn Gallery and The Country Store –

at the very end of the Neck where the only attractions are the harbor, the sea and the sky-

I saw a young woman and a young man sitting close together on the rocks.

They noticed only each other and that they could see beyond the harbor,

past the breakwater, past Rockport, past Gloucester, past Boston.

They could see themselves anywhere in the world under slips of silver clouds,

sitting close together by some safe harbor.

Marty Luster

When the sky looks like this. . .

and this. . .

and the harbor looks like this. . .

Then it’s time to GET A MOVE ON!!

So go the lyrics in most versions of Paul Simon’s song Kodachrome. Sad to say that the last roll of Kodachrome has been shot, developed and printed. We will all have to face the task of explaining to our grandchildren what Kodachrome and, indeed, what film, was.

However, not everything looks better in black and white.

The Chassea crew off – loading.