An envisioning. 2023 and a Nantucket summer with dusk coming on.
Oh to be here.
A day spent listening to the fog horn do its thing. Hoping on a beach day for tomorrow more like Marco Island last Christmas with the tree tops dancing on the next island almost close enough to swim to at least if you were on swim team while not being on auntie duty towing a beach float with triplet two year olds and their puppy dog back and forth to the nearest sandbar, tow rope clenched in your teeth.
Into town for a bit of shopping. All things watermelon except for the real kind with seeds you can spit from the shop across from the bank or at least what looks like a bank if a bank came all covered in brown shingles with fake lichen like a shack in the woods, spun sugar looking fake sea spray on the windows like a Buche Noel gone demented with the mushrooms left to rot in the corners of the dessert plates.
But still . . . not like the house Grandmama had up in Maine, the one with the boathouse with its own Adirondack canoe in the rafters but sort of . . . a place for little people and not so little people to have fun and wear Lily Pulitzer no matter how far you are from Florida . . . a firepit to fire up when it gets cold out instead of a fireplace surrounded by deer heads and the house’s name spelled out in twigs but staying into October and maybe November with anything that far up in Maine long since snowed in . . . a blessing.
Watermelon small tote. 2021. Straw with a canvas lining. katespade.com. https://www.therealreal.com/products/women/handbags/handle-bags/kate-spade-new-york-raffia-top-handle-bag-w-tags-pyfap
Modern villa (firepit detail). 2017. 3D digital model. Peruvian. MODELADOR666 on cgtrader.com, maker. via cgtrader.com. Modern villa (firepit detail). 2017. 3D digital model. Peruvian. MODELADOR666 on cgtrader.com, maker. via cgtrader.com.