Hi AG:
Nice- you took us all there with you.
Gord
----- Original Message -----
From: "AG Schnozz" <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:52 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
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