Ecotone: Writing About Place: RePlace

If you have a place you want to go back to ... if you have an idea you want to improve upon ... if you go, again and again, to the same place ... here, at the height of rerun season, is where to write about it (P).

[Hoarded Ordinaries] After having visited Washington, NH on my own about a month ago, yesterday I decided to Re-Turn with the dog in tow in order to Re-Visit Lovewell, which Chris, the dog, and I had climbed with our friend X (of Boys' Weekend fame) a summer or two ago. I remembered Lovewell as being a moderately heart-pounding but not dauntingly strenuous hike with a vista (and accompanying solitude) that made it well worth the effort. It had been a while since the dog and I had been hiking, so the thought of Re-Visiting a semi-familiar place was appealing.

[London and the North] I have a feeling that I could have started with something a bit more deep and meaningful (for this contributition to Ecotone: Writing About Place on RePlace) than this nasty pink stuff but it's really on my mind - and in my sightline.

[Via Negativa] A spot of poison ivy between the first and second knuckle of my left thumb has been lurking there since late May. I never knew exactly where or how I made contact with the plant, but by now, in mid-August, its berries must be ripening. In two weeks or less they will redden and the leaflets three will color up to match - signal flags for the small birds of passage who will drop from the sky each morning for a quick forage.

[Feathers of Hope (Pica)] Through this window I can see an English walnut tree, in full leaf with the fruits coming in, and a wall of corn. The cornfield is now about 11 feet tall. I've never lived in a jungle but I'm starting to get a sense of green impenetrability, and I don't relish it all that much. I didn't before Sunday...