Because I’m that way: This is Morningstar, the Frers 50 that won Class B in the 1984 SORC, competing in the St. Petersburg to Fort Lauderdale Race that year.
This is around the time when I was racing a lot. Not at the SORC level, but this kind of racing in this kind of boat (roughly) in Southern California. Bloopers were such a thing back in the day.
Were your sails as colorful?
Yeah. Color-coordinated spinnaker/blooper combos were all the rage. 🙂
“For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.”
-Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe
I’m going to make the shading a little extra from now on hehe. It’s been a while since I’ve posted any poster cards 😬
I learnt something when I went back to Helstone, expecting it to be the paradise I knew as a child. Try as we might, happy as we were, we can’t go back.
He doesn’t want you to be real, to think and to live. He doesn’t love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.
This is a better view than I had; the one I saw (after my birdy marathon up around East Pinery Road and the Davy Brown Trail, when I stopped to check out the birds along Cachuma Creek) was in the top of a tree, so all I saw was the tail pumping and the whitish undertail coverts. But the pumping tail was enough to make it an empid, and call it was making was enough to make it a WIFL. 😀
Fun fact: I’ve set my alarm for 3 a.m. because I want to be up on East Pinery Road at 5 a.m. in hopes of seeing (or at least hearing) a Northern Pygmy-Owl. Wish me luck!
No owls. But I had a great time, and the (non-owl) birds and flowers were amazing. I did get one species for the county year list, too, which always makes me happy. 🙂
Fun fact: I’ve set my alarm for 3 a.m. because I want to be up on East Pinery Road at 5 a.m. in hopes of seeing (or at least hearing) a Northern Pygmy-Owl. Wish me luck!
