New Shoreham, Rhode Island
photo by Tim
bright wings of autumn
flutter, lighting on the last
sweet sips of summer
~ Barbara Rodgers
(By the Sea)
Fourteen years ago Tim & I took a high-speed ferry from New London, Connecticut, to Block Island, which is 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island. The ferry only runs from New London from May to September, and we caught it on the last Saturday in September. (There is year-round ferry service from Point Judith and Newport, Rhode Island.)
We had a wonderful time exploring the island for a day. I wrote this post about our adventure: high-speed ferry ride
Before we left the island, Tim spotted a monarch butterfly in someone’s garden and took this amazing picture. It inspired me to write the haiku. I posted the picture/word combo a few days later and it proved to be one of my most viewed posts ever, with lots of comments. The memory is bittersweet, though, as most of the blogging friends I enjoyed back then are no longer blogging and I miss them.
I’m beginning to have more appreciation for how indulging in feelings of nostalgia becomes such a prominent feature of aging!
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Lovely to see the post again. What a beautiful historical place.
Thank you, Rosie. 🦋💙
Barbara, what a nice memory to share with us and Tim’s picture of the beautiful Monarch as well. This time I noticed you mentioned Tim was the photographer in the caption, unlike when I missed the notation in the caption that last time. The high-speed ferry boat ride looks fun. I’ve never been on a high-speed ferry, just a traditional ferry boat ride. We were not blogging pals back then, so the post was new to me and I have to comment here as comments are now closed. These are special memories – the pictures of the lighthouse, your view and the whole day trip, seeing the gulls, something you miss as you are now “in the woods”.
I’m so glad I have an abundance of photographs that hold so many happy memories, bringing me so much comfort now. My blog is like a photo album to me, and I love flipping through the posts. We always wanted to go back to Block Island, but we never did. Deaths in the family and our own health problems and then the pandemic all got in the way. I’m glad we seized the moment when we had the chance. 🦋💙
“Seizing the moment” is not just an expression, but always a wise choice – you never know what will happen in this life, so yes, live for the moment. I was wondering if you returned to Block Island because in the older post you mentioned hoping to return.
Your blog is a great photo album of memories with Tim, especially your nature walks and with interactions with other family members too. I also have peppered my blog with treasured memories as you know. The best thing I ever did was digitize the photo albums and scrapbooks. Many are still just raw images, not yet formatted, as I’ve formatted as I used each picture in my blog. I got a printer in 2010 when I got the laptop with a printer to go along with it. It never worked as a printer, but it did as a scanner, but not great, so I bought the Epson scanner … I should take away the photo albums on Facebook as they’re from the HP printer/scanner. When I had only photo albums, they were not easy to access, so now they are a few mouse clicks away.