I come back from holidays with a bundle of travel brochures picked up from here and there, old maps, receipts, business cards … odd bits of paper kept as mementos. Eventually I sort through them, discard some, then make a scrapbook complete with photos to be browsed on a winter night … memories of summer …
SCRAPBOOK SUMMER 
brochures … maps worn
at the creases
coffee rings make new contour lines
wine stains create new lakes
pencil marks obliterate towns
roads thickened by buttered fingers …
postcards of forgotten views
and folders of explored excitements
these acquisitions of travel
stockpiled to become
the scrapbook story
of summer
published in Sagacity Magazine
The Willow Tree Girl for ages 7-11 … Weston doesn’t miss a beat as she untangles past and present, ghosts, missing treasure, and her heroine’s longing for success.
Hmm is anyone else having problems with the pictures
on this blog loading? I’m trying to figure out if its a problem on my end or if it’s the blog.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I haven’t heard of anyone else having problems with the photos, and I’m not sure what
if anything I can do to help. Are they simply very slow to load? Don’t load at all? Is
it happening with all of them?