Olympus-OM
[Top] [All Lists]

[OM] Re: Foghorn

Subject: [OM] Re: Foghorn
From: "Jamie Costello" <jcostel1168@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:16:53 -0400
Ahhh ... the persistence of memory.

Jamie
Fort Myers, FL

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AG Schnozz" <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:52 PM
Subject: [OM] Foghorn


> "oooooooooooooo"
> 
> "oooooooooooooo"
> 
> I'm walking along the shoreline listening to a foghorn in the
> distance.  Boy does this take me back.  I grew up on the Great
> Lakes and the sound of the foghorn was part of our everyday
> lives.
> 
> "oooooooooooooo"
> 
> The mist was rising off the still water--water too still to ring
> the bells on the buoys.  Not even gentle lapping at the
> shoreline.
> 
> "oooooooooooooo"
> 
> A frog jumps in the water and three swans are coasting across
> the still water--disappearing into the mist. The geese start to
> make a racket and threaten to take flight.  A kingfisher sits
> patiently on a branch.
> 
> "oooooooooooooo"
> 
> It's nearly sunrise now and the mist is thinning.  Yet, I think
> about all of those days and nights running on the beach. 
> Sailing.  Canoeing.  Swimming.  Or the wintertime ice-boating. 
> Or those dates...
> 
> "oooooooooooooo"
> 
> The sun appears over a distant hill and washes across the water,
> the mist, the trees, the...
> 
> "oooooooooooooo"
> 
> ...the...
> 
> "oooooooooooooo"
> 
> ...cornfields.  That foghorn sound was coming from a distant
> grain-dryer.  I'm still in Iowa hiking around a pond.  There
> isn't a foghorn within eight hours drive of here.
> 
> The illusion is shattered, but the memories were great.  I
> continued on my way to work, smiling, transported to a time and
> place so distant, yet so close to the heart.
> 
> AG
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today!
> http://vote.yahoo.com
> 
> ==============================================
> List usage info:     http://www.zuikoholic.com
> List nannies:        olympusadmin@xxxxxxxxxx
> ==============================================

==============================================
List usage info:     http://www.zuikoholic.com
List nannies:        olympusadmin@xxxxxxxxxx
==============================================

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Sponsored by Tako
Impressum | Datenschutz