Hi Mark, lovely read, hit all the senses with an extra dose of ecstasy of the moment. Click and clitter was a bit much for me but I guess so is that overwhelming sound on an August evening.
I think I'd prefer the last line as
summer blurs the distance between leaving and arriving.
Mark : "I won't mention apples, especially not the BIG RED APPLE at Winchester."
:'-( Ha ha
Mark: "Let's see, 15 miles west of DC, 1/4 mile off of Rt 7-- did you live near Wolf Trap?"
Sort of. The mileages were very approximate. I lived on Millwood Ln. in Great Falls, Virginia.
Difficult Run ran through the tip of my property. Up there it's about 20 feet wide, if that.
The stream had undermined an old sycamore, which fell across the run and made a
convenient bridge to the other side of my property. I used to sit on that sycamore and drop
a fishing line, no poll needed, into the run. I caught white perch, sunfish, and every once in
a while a very small bass. Captain Hickory Run ran into difficult run about 300 yards upstream.
I once thought I caught a brook trout there, but everyone said that was impossible. About a year
later, I happen to ask a Great Falls Park Ranger about it and he said there used to be brook trout
in the small tributaries of Difficult Run. Hopefully they're still there, as I only use barbless hooks
and always thrown them back in.
Yes, truly a wondrous place.
chat:
ha, I imagine that household had to watch for loose hooks tumbling from every pocket into the laundry.
Just took the inland Shenandoah range run, a breeze of a drive, away from the coastal mayhem.
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