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Archive for November, 2012

11.29

2012

Fall color, No. 2

From a rental car on the narrow roads of the southern Caribbean island of St. Kitts, the views are of coconut trees, coral stone curbs, and brightly painted houses within a few feet of the roadway. I was there on assignment earlier this month, and on a Sunday, the sound of a choir singing poured in the car window from a one-room, seaside chapel set directly beside a “snack-ette” stocked with Carib beer and Ting sodas. From the islands tallest peaks, nearby St. Barths is in view. On the grounds of a former sugar plantation, children danced in island masquerade costumes, and a teenager who’d made a pet of one of the vervet monkeys (and named him “Skippy”) offered tours of the rainforest.

I’m writing a travel story to be published soon in print. Meanwhile, a few more snapshots of roadside and rainforest views, from morning to night…

– Sandy Lang, November 2012

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Travel

11.27

2012

Fall color, No. 1

On a fall day at the cabin a few weeks ago, hardwoods across the water blazed red-orange and gold. I paddled the kayak to the summer swim platform (my last dive there around Labor Day). No swimming this time. It was the weekend for annual, end-of-season chores. To pull in the wooden dock, we wear wading boots and get in the water to float the wet frame to a spot where we can heave it to shore. Sometimes friends come by to help with the hoisting, or a light skin of ice already tops the water. This time, the day was sunny and the water flat-calm. I wasn’t cold at all.

– Sandy Lang, November 2012

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Maine days

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