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Posted by Jai Narayan on May 12, 2007, at 7:15:36
Hello,
I’m off for the week to Plum Island. DH and I are celebrating our 20th anniversary on the 17th.
We are packing our bikes, bionocs and parking our butts as close to the passerines as possible.
see you next week!
xoxo
Jai
Posted by scratchpad on May 12, 2007, at 8:48:12
In reply to off on a birding vacation, posted by Jai Narayan on May 12, 2007, at 7:15:36
I used to live just down the coast in Ipswich. ((((Plum Island)))) Have a wonderful time, Jai. and happy anniversary!
Scratchpad (ClearSkies)
Posted by Phillipa on May 12, 2007, at 12:08:49
In reply to Re: off on a birding vacation » Jai Narayan, posted by scratchpad on May 12, 2007, at 8:48:12
Geography bad where is plum Island? No idea? Love Phillipa
Posted by Jai Narayan on May 20, 2007, at 19:41:35
In reply to Re: off on a birding vacation » Jai Narayan, posted by scratchpad on May 12, 2007, at 8:48:12
> I used to live just down the coast in Ipswich. ((((Plum Island)))) Have a wonderful time, Jai. and happy anniversary!
>
> Scratchpad (ClearSkies)wow, now there's a place to live. I love Plum Island and Ipswich.
why'd ya move?
We had a glorious time. Seasoned birders said they hadn't seen a week like this since 1985. I saw over one hundred and twenty species of birds. It was just glorious.
Jai
Posted by Jai Narayan on May 20, 2007, at 19:48:08
In reply to Re: off on a birding vacation » scratchpad, posted by Phillipa on May 12, 2007, at 12:08:49
> Geography bad where is plum Island? No idea? Love Phillipa
The island is in Massachusetts on the coast.
the weather was hot, cold and rainy. Wild times on the coast.
The ocean pounded the sand. The birds flooded in and ate lots of bugs and larvae. The Scarlet Tanager looked dazed as he dazzled our eyes with his red body and black wings.
it was good Phillipa.
Jai
Posted by Phillipa on May 20, 2007, at 20:22:19
In reply to Re: off on a birding vacation, posted by Jai Narayan on May 20, 2007, at 19:48:08
Oh I remember Scarlet Tananger's from when I lived in CT. Love Phillipa so beautiful
Posted by scratchpad on May 20, 2007, at 20:57:40
In reply to Re: off on a birding vacation, posted by Jai Narayan on May 20, 2007, at 19:41:35
> wow, now there's a place to live. I love Plum Island and Ipswich.
> why'd ya move?Why, indeed. I think we were officially evicted out that particular apartment cottage, one of several downgrades in our lifestyles from 1996 until the inevitable separation and divorce in 1999. What a bunch of bittersweet memories to have of that entire coast and all of Cape Ann. I would go on very long walks on trails and along the beaches, trying to let the wind whip some sense between my ears.
I went back once to make sure that the ghosts had gone. Wee wisps remain, but nothing that caused the old panic and fear that the era once had for me.
I loveed Newburyport and its coffee and bookshop; Rowley and its excellent weekend flea market, Ipswich Pub with the best lobster roll around! Essex, with its grand antique stores and fried whole belly clams!, and on to Gloucester, the jewel in the necklace of north coastal towns. Urban and old fashioned and run down with great music and the best whale watching boats along the whole coast.
Yes, I miss it there, so. And I so understand that I can't go back but for a minute's visit. But I'm glad it's there for us all.
Scratchpad
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