Monday was Kristin's birthday! She decided to celebrate by swimming across Walden Pond, so great! Kristin is a new friend, we were introduced the night we went with to pick her up from the airport. She was returning from a trip to Israel and if I remember was pretty tired that night. We share a love for gardening, good food and the kind of fun that is free.
Walden Pond is made famous by the author Thoreau. He wrote a bit--Civil Disobedience and Walden are a few--he was an outdoorsman and like to hike out into wilderness and write about it (as well as his views about politics, the economy and the like). The places he wrote about are here, in the Boston area. What is left of his home in the woods is across this lake. Of it he writes,
"It is a clear and deep green well, half a mile long...a perennial spring in the midst of pine and oak woods, without any visible inlet or outlet except by the clouds... Walden is blue at one time and green at another, even from the same point of view. Lying between the earth and the heavens, it partakes of the color of both."
A picnic with cherries and water mellon, friends and swimming, a warm day at the lake--I'm loving the way New England does summer.
No comments:
Post a Comment