More on Monday

Teary Goodbyes: to Nao Arito, our Rotary Exchange Student, who leaves to return to her home in Nagasaki, Japan, today. The parent of one of Nao's clasmates said, "We have all been blessed to have her here with us!"

- and to Peter Wilcox, who had been the pharmacist at CVS for a good ten years. He has been snatched away from us by a drugstore in Clinton, where he lives. (Since there are only two drugstores in Clinton and one is a CVS, we can deduce that he will be behind the counter at Kinney's new store.) We'll miss him a great deal!

Two more photographs from the Sunday "Ride in the Country:"


Beardslee Castle was especially eye-catching, hung with the deep green "drapery" and orange blossoms of Trumpet Vine.



Catching sight of this field of wheat (oats?) we stopped to take a careful look at the way they were stacked and to debate whether the arrangements were called "sheaves" or "shocks."



A websearch yielded this informative article and the answer: yes - they are both "sheaves" and "shocks." - small bundles (sheaves) standing teepee-style and topped off with two more sheaves laid crosswise for a protective "roof," all resulting in a "shock." We don't know who raised or harvested the crop, which we found somewhat west of Nelliston, but the technique was as interesting to us as it must have been to Vincent van Gogh in 1885.