#northward bound

[johnschneiderblog]

Huron beckons

Anticipating a trip northward later this month, I texted our Up-North plumber, Jake, this week and asked him to get our cottage de-winterized; it’s the first step in yet another grand reopening.

Jake will rouse the cottage from hibernation. He’ll prime he pump, turn on the gas, get the place oriented toward summer No. 32 on the shore of Lake Huron. We’ll take over from there, undoing, in a familiar choreograph, everything we did last November when we tucked it in.for the winter.

Surely it won’t  feel like summer above the 45th Parallel. It probably won’t even feel like spring. But that won’t interfere at all with the reunion.

[thethirdbear]

[bexmuses]

Northward Bound || Anna & Axel

@goofymuses

North.

It was funny how almost the whole world was south of Arendelle, and yet north was the direction Anna was the most curious about. North was where the Enchanted Forest lay. North was where Elsa’s ice palace was built. North was where the lights came from when the sky was awake.

She’d always been curious about the aurora borealis and what caused the brightly colored lights to dance across the sky. Nothing and no one in the world could convince her it wasn’t magic. And while she wasn’t the magical one of the two sisters, she had always been enchanted by the adventure and romance of magic.

So it was, when Axel suggested she take a trial run on a diplomatic mission - okay, it was a vacation, but they were both pretending it had something to do with diplomacy - she opted to go north, where it was even colder in the winter. Because that was where the lights originated, and she wanted to see their source.

She was busy packing warm clothes when Axel arrived, and she looked up with a bright smile, even as she tried to choose between winter cloaks. “Great! Just the person I wanted to see!” She held the ones she was trying to choose between up. “Classic fuschia or forest green?”

[thethirdbear]

i felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. i thought, "this is what it is to be happy.

sylvia plath

[designfailure56]

An oldie but a goody, here’s Sibbe (as a Vampirate for Halloween)

I need to draw her again

[supermusicallee]

[ for you lonely women // to you i dedicate my song // you that suffer in silence // your pain and disillusionment // your hunger and your broken dreams // poor women, i sing to you ]

-Poor Illegal Immigrant Women, María Herrera-Sobek

[johnschneiderblog]

Turning the corner

We spent last night in Perry, Georgia for no reason other than it was a five-hour drive, northward, from our ‘Tropical Paradise” in Dunedin, Florida.

We’ll put in another five today and expect to land somewhere in Tennessee tonight.

We’ll spend Saturday night with the kids in Indiana before making the final push back to Michigan on Sunday.

No more 80-degree days for us and not much hope of sunshine in the near future. However, the Tigers start spring training today - a harbinger of the harbingers ...

[thethirdbear]