by MCMAdmin | Jul 17, 2024 | Nature and Places |
I can’t write about Eastham and life at Nauset Haven without including Buster. Though he was also our family dog, whenever I was home, especially when I walked around the pond, he was mine. My friend, my confidant, my always ready companion and listener. (With just a...
by MCMAdmin | Dec 11, 2023 | Nature and Places, Sally Buffington |
“Let’s go out in the woods and cut our own Christmas tree!” December 1957, Eastham, Massachusetts. I was eleven. After years of two-week vacations on Cape Cod, which I’d always considered a magic summer kingdom, my parents and I had moved—to Cape Cod! We were just...
by MCMAdmin | Nov 20, 2023 | Nature and Places, Sally Buffington |
Sometimes when I can’t sleep and my mind’s all stirred up, I lie in bed and calm myself by making up an alphabetical list: towns in my state, for instance, the names of books, or favorite foods. Just the other night, I got going on Thanksgiving. An ample subject!...
by MCMAdmin | Oct 20, 2023 | Nature and Places, On My Mind, Sally Buffington, Seeing and Photography |
Traveling this past summer, as always I took books with me, and as always, bought more along the way. Though I also brought a Nook e-reader, I got held up in the TSA line because I didn’t remove it from my carry-on for scanning; the agent could hardly believe this...
by Sally | Sep 20, 2023 | At The Table, Cape Cod, Sally Buffington |
Thinking of my recent trip to Cape Cod, I notice that some of the most interesting things which happened, I didn’t plan on. For instance a three -course “menu” of happenings at restaurants, starting with yet another round of oysters on the half shell ordered by my...
by Sally | Aug 3, 2023 | Nature and Places, San Diego, Seeing and Photography |
Here’s a neighborhood landmark, located on the corner of the street above mine. For a long time, no one’s paid it much heed; the sign’s been “just part of the landscape.” Until just the other day. I drove by, glanced to the right—and saw that the sign stood alone....