La Parguera is on the Caribbean and we spent one entire day on and in the water. Just a short walk from the paradore we met our guide and climbed into kayaks for a morning of paddling through the mangroves. 
I videoed part of the trip while letting Mr O do all the paddling.
The rest of the day we snorkeled and at night we went swimming in a bio-luminescent bay…magical… but some things I just couldn’t photograph…
I recently realized that many of the videos I have taken have been taken with the intent to record the sound rather than the action. Outside the kitchen door, the night time sounds at the end of summer are nearly deafening…but in a heart warming way. This is one of the sounds that is so deeply connected with a season and with childhood that it can conjure up deep emotions and contentment for me when I listen. I wonder just how many crickets, cicadas, grasshoppers, and katydids are out there conversing. Now that it is September, and getting cooler, this song is fading and the windows are closed at night…a sure sign that autumn is near. With the volume all the way up I will be able to pretend I am still standing outside in the late summer…
Emily Dickinson - The Crickets Sang
The Crickets sang
And set the Sun
And Workmen finished one by one
Their Seam the Day upon.
The low Grass loaded with the Dew
The Twilight stood, as Strangers do
With Hat in Hand, polite and new
To stay as if, or go.
A Vastness, as a Neighbor, came,
A Wisdom, without Face, or Name,
A Peace, as Hemispheres at Home
And so the Night became.
...and the first time I felt like taking photos in a long time...Join me...
...the sky looks as grey as the land...
Kaja joins us but hates the camera...
The trail goes over several bridges...
And crosses a dam...
The brook is incredibly loud ...
The beech tree leaves remain golden on the branches...
I find hearts...
Halfway around...
Looking back towards the dam...
Your life is in your own hands...
The north side of the tree...
and back where I started...
My favorite walk doesn't take very long...but it does restore me...
My word for 2010 is Restore...
Celebrating Thanksgiving dinner in the kitchen may include lots of noise, commotion, and dishes in the sink...but Mr J's Thanksgiving song just needed to be shared... I think I need to practice filming video though...
"Thank you for the sun so bright, thank you for the moon at night, thank you for my family, thanks for friends who play with me, thanks for every thing I see, I am thankful yes sir eee."
