"Land of the Rocky Shore, I Will Return Once More..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Beware of massive Blue Mountain Lake picspam, and let's hear it for the gratuitous Soujin! ^___^ Piiiiicspam!

*happens to be the lyrics to a horrible song Waen is presently playing on the piano, but is, in fact, in essence true; there are silver birches and beavers and--as the next line happily proclaims--mighty moose. I love the Adirondacks.


The view from our house. That's the town! Blue Mountain Lake! ^___^ And mergansers, which are swimming.


And the point for which Prospect Point is named, only I'm not facing out to take the photograph, I'm facing in. It's a path that leads back to the house, and there's a bench on the point where one can sit and look at the lake. Is lovely.

Waen and I in our house!



And then, on the first day, we went out up Raquette Lake, I believe. ^__^ We kayaked to a waterfall and stream.



We found a poison mushroom!


WE PUT IT IN SOUJIN'S EAR. Just like Hamlet's father! Poison in the ear!

It wasn't my idea, by the way.


Goodknow Mountain, with the watchtower! Waen was vastly unhappy; she doesn't like heights. Neither does Da', but he climbed the firetower anyway. So did I, but I don't mind heights most of the time, so nothing special there. ^_^ Beautiful view, though, from on top--one could see all the lakes. <3 It was really lovely.


Catamount! We thought we were below the summit. We climbed to the top of what's behind us. We found we still had another .4 miles to go. We gave up, but only because Waen refused to climb the straight up-and-down bit. Da' promised to take me back next year and go the whole way.


Cascade Pond, for Daddy's birthday. Waen and I are in that photograph. It was so beautiful...! There were newts in the sunny part of the water, green with speckles. ^___^ Waen and I found loads.

Also, this beautiful giant rock on the way to Stephen's Pond, on the same day:

Is Luther's rock. Is big and solid and for-ever, and has a tree to go with it.


APPLES OMG.

Now, three completely gratuitous pictures that have nothing to do with Blue Mountain at all:


Waen made me earrings. Out of an old gold necklace of flowers that broke.


I am regretfully silly, but I have painted all my nails a different colour. While I was at work, to be a palette, you see, so that my ladies would know what the colours looked like. Also, it's fading, but my hand says 'Violets, but they withered all when my father died'. Now it says 'Ay, in my heart of hearts'. And my shirt, which is silk, is covered with grease, because I was washing dishes and accidentally pressed one against me.


Me to-night! An entirely different pair of earrings. These are my Iceland earrings, though. You can't see, but one of the red stones is missing, because in one of the sod houses Siggi took us to, there were two tiny motherless kittens, and one hooked its claws in my earring and pulled out the stone; for which reason I am eternally proud of the earrings.

And that's all. We return you to your regularly scheduled programmes! ^____^

Comments

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I know. It's just--it's too good to be true, isn't it? It's so beautiful. Mum is always sad for weeks after we come home, and I wish we could stay longer. and yes, we go every year! ^__^ This year we went twice, as you know--and we shall again, next year, Mum's decided! We'll get to go two times most years from now on, for Waen's birthday and for Da's.

My birthday is in May, of course, so it would be bad to go there for mine... the blackflies always flourish in May. And November is too cold, so we can't go for Mum's. But Da's and Waen's--!

I DID. Augh. XD

^_____^ To-morrow, after I've washed my hands, it'll be 'I shall wear him in my heart's core'. I change it regularly.

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

It's so very, very lovely. I almost cannot imagine-- but I can, though it is hard, as places I have seen that are like that are-- were-- Alaska, Ireland, Scotland... places that are very much Foreign, I think, is what I'm trying to say. So it amazes me, it absolutely amazes me.

Wonderful.<3333

XDD O, cursed spite...!

Awww. That one's just as sweet. ...Have I mentioned that I love that scene?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

^__^ --You've been to Alaska? Oh, please tell me what Alaska's like! I've always wanted to go there. Bwee. Tell me?

^_______^

*whines in a soliloquy* --Mel Gibson!Hamlet? His father is, seriously, the whiniest Hamlet Sr. I've ever heard; and I've heard more than I should. ^_~

^____^! As many times as I've mentioned I love you.

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

Oh! I have. Quite a few years ago, and I would love so much to go back. We went in August, so it was not so terribly cold, but still enough so to wear jackets at night-- although the fun thing was that the sun did not go down until 11 o'clock or so, though I'm sure Iceland was worse so! We were in Anchorage for the most part, which is a lovely little city, and visited with friends of the family (a friend of my mother's from college who works at Alaska's State University and is flown between campuses on little planes!), who showed us around. There's an amazing amount of museums and such devoted to Inuit and Native American heritage, culture, and art-- I remember a whole art gallery devoted to Inuit youths who were creating artwork in the style of their ancestors.

It's absolutely gorgeous outside of the cities, though. We were going to go to Denali National Park (guh, six million acres, and Mt. McKinley!), but sadly, that did not happen. We did go to Seward, and the drive there from Anchorage is a few hours and so, so, so pretty. It's a little harbour town (very, very small city, but shhh) on the Kenai Peninsula, with adorable little houses and restaurants that sell fish that was caught out on the water that morning. Andandand we went whale-watching. I'd been whale-watching previously, out of Boston, when we mostly saw dolphins, but-- whale-watching in Alaska! We took a cruise through Kenai Fjords National Park, which rather predictably has fjords! And glaciers, some calving and some not; we stopped to talk a walk along the latter. And of course, we saw whales-- mostly humpback, but also orca.

I loved it. ^__^

...XD I want to see/hear now. I know that I liked that version well enough, but cannot remember specifics.

Well! That's quite a few, then. *grins*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh. Ohhh, it sounds wonderful, and, and, whales--! Ohhhh. ^_^ Oh!

<3

You really should. XD Is too funny.

^__^ Indeed!

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

Whales! The orcas were a surprise, and I was so happy.

XD When I go home, probably.

^________^

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Bwee. Whales. Whales are another thing that melt me. Oh, oh, oh.

^____^ Okay!