I finally had a chance to take Olga back to the Heath yesterday. It felt so good to get out and walk, even though we got lightly rained on and the forest has definitely entered its muddy winter phase.
Remember those beautiful purple asters that Olga was rolling in just a few months ago? They're a sad brown clump now. Overall, the colors of autumn have mostly given way to bare branches and the wet browns and blacks of winter.
None of that mattered to Olga. She was as energetic and crazy as ever.
Here are the day's finds, a couple of interesting (at least to me) pottery shards. When we got home, I added them to my little collection on the dining room windowsill.
Olga went almost immediately to sleep and I watched "Seven Alone," an old Western I remember seeing at the theater as a child. It popped into my mind while I was reading my book about prospectors in Alaska -- even though the movie takes place on the Oregon Trail -- and lo and behold, the whole thing is on YouTube. I remember loving it as a kid, but lord, it's tedious and the acting is about as wooden as possible. Revisiting it was interesting, but I definitely don't recommend it -- unless you're in elementary school.
How sad that a cherished film from your childhood turns out to be so disappointing with the benefit of hindsight.
ReplyDeleteOlga is such a beauty and those pottery shards really caught my eye! What a find! Sometimes old movies give us pleasure more from where they take us in memories than the actual quality of the work, I watch repeatedly movies from moments and times in my life that have meaning and some of those movies are really crappy! But they hold meaning to me,
ReplyDeleteNice shots of Olga in the woods! And I love those shards. I have my own pile of pottery and glass I've found in this yard but none as old as yours, I think.
ReplyDeleteI just tried to get a nice shot of my little Japanese maple in the morning sun (it's turned orange!) and thought of you.
I'll take your word for that movie and skip it. :-) I did see a brilliant play last night. I saw "Dear Evan Hanson" and it was excellent. Olga looks very happy out there where she can run and chase squirrels. I love that spray of yellow in the first photo.
ReplyDeletethe dead asters are really wonderful, I love that background , Olga looks regal! Pottery shards are a favorite, of course, I collected them from the beach for years, but then somebody thought they were trash and took them to the dump. Sad.
ReplyDeleteyou are so lucky to have a forest nearby that you can walk in. and cool pottery shards.
ReplyDeleteAh the season of bare branches and mud is here too. We took our early morning walk one day last week, after checking the radar on the National Weather website, and still got drenched in the last five minutes. What a downpour that was. Glad you and Olga got out for a walk and found those pottery shards.
ReplyDeleteWonderful shots of Olga. You will treasure them in the years ahead. I know what you mean about old movies not being as good to your eyes and mind as they once were. When I was a college lad I used to carry "On The Road" around with me and thought it was gospel. I read it again about 20 years later and thought it was tedious. The works don't change but we change.
ReplyDeleteThe piece of pink pottery is intriguing - all those dimples and bumps. I wonder what it came from.
ReplyDeleteMany books as well as movies don't stand the test of time very well.
I'd much prefer to walk in the three seasons that are NOT summer - the air is so much easier to breathe and I don't feel like I'm going to die from heat stroke! Good to see Olga, as always :)
I'm trying to think of a childhood love that has not stood the test of time but I can't. Either I was such a dolt that I never experienced "culture" before I was 30, or I have a really bad memory. The ONE thing that is kind of cringe-worthy is that I LOVED the original Star Trek (I was 10). And when I see the show now, I try not to concentrate on the pitiful production values, which at the time I thought were magic, and give them lee way...Star Trek was ground-breaking, and nobody...NOBODY.. is sexier than Leonard Nimoy's Spock.
ReplyDeleteOooh... I'd love to see a photo of all the pottery bits on your windowsill!
ReplyDeletePerhaps you've already posted one? (I'm new to your blog.)
As for childhood loves, I would like to reply to VIVIAN SWIFT, above, that, with all due respect, she is wrong:
Captain Kirk is sexier than Mr. Spock.
[LOL]
I still love the original Star Trek--the cheesy effects are part of the fun. (Ditto the old Dr Who.) I like the shoestring special effects better than today's billion dollar CGI.
I think you were an archeologist in a previous life. Interesting shards.
ReplyDeleteWe've made our boys watch some of the movies we thought were great as kids only to find they didn't age well.
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