Our Quest–My brother’s and mine ended at a small boat ramp from where we would board a small boat and take the short journey with that was left of my parents confinement in small boxes– to the placed they’d made our goal so long ago.

L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz features protagonist Dorothy, who is on a quest to find her way back home. … Dorothy develops new understanding and self-knowledge during her sojourn of Oz, symbolized through her friends: brains, heart, and courage.  Mark Flanagan 

https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-quest-851677

Vintage Sears 7×35 500 ft at 1000 yards 445.2511 Binoculars with Original Case

$24.70

https://www.etsy.com/listing/507649130/vintage-sears-7×35-500-ft-at-1000-yards?ref=shop_home_active_1   

Then we came to a narrow finger of land pointing east, a place my folks had enjoyed, spent time about and long ago voiced for the first time their desire to have their ashes to be scattered there.  I have taken no picture of the actual scattering of the ashes, their floating in the water or any of that—I can describe them but that was something that Guy and I shared privately—-it is the children’s shared memory too precious for pictures:

Guy who had been the caretaker–fittingly as the only son–pulled the boxes of ashes out of his bag opened and slowly poured the gray powder that is all that remains of the laughing photographer, who told silly jokes, read constantly and who was “My Daddy” first and then My Mom–the dependable woman who never in my entire life let me down, who enjoyed and put up with the craziness that was daddy and 3 children who were so different in oh so many ways and still came up sane.  Who was so long a Tom Boy that she accepted a daughter who failed to learn her place in life…..Both went into the cold sparkling waters and we for a moment watched their movements on the surface spreading, becoming part of this place they loved.  Then we said our private good byes and Guy said a short prayer.

Then we were headed back to shore leaving the place to the birds, fish, and my parents.  We had fulfilled our obligation to our parents.  But I feel that my parents would still feel that we have other obligations to maintain:  to be the people they worked so hard for us to be–to try at least to be kind, honest, someone who helps others and tries to make at least our little part of the world a bit better—something you don’t see enough of in this day and age.

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England.

                                                                    English legend

As with all quests once they are completed then one must return home…or in our case to our camping place which involved crossing great water–but luckily we had a great bridge to do so on.

The next day we left Mackinaw city and found our selves back in Lansing for a night and then on to Ohio (both stopping at the places we’d been to before) and then a return to West Va.

I will do one more episode to finish my quest story and then I’ll return to the 60’s—in my Blogs I haven’t perfected time travel yet—otherwise I’d be going thru those stones.

Well, you should try it someday; you might get a taste for it.

Tristan

yes I know Droughtlander is over but can’t give it up—sorry

No more Tobias?  https://hiddenremote.com/2017/09/27/5-best-moments-outlander-season-3-episode-3/

Sneak preview of episode 4:  http://tvline.com/2017/09/27/outlander-season-3-episode-4-video-claire-pearls/

And another clip from 4:  http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a12475020/outlander-of-lost-things-clip/

“Then go, and I shall follow you”

                                                                         Merlin

“Ruber: A spear. How stone age. A king would hold a nobler weapon. A king would hold Excalibur.

Quest for Camelot

All those standing there gazed, and warily crept closer,
Bursting with wonder to see what he would do;
For many marvels they had known, but such a one never;
So the folk there judged it phantasm or magic.
For this reason many noble knight feared to answer:
And stunned by his words they sat there stock-still.
(237 – 243)

Sir Gwain and the Green Knight

Sorry I’ve been off line for awhile—blame it on a bad ass named Irma, who came calling and left me with out internet, cable, electricity all that fun stuff that run things like water heaters and refrigerator,, oh yeah and don’t forget A/C……we in Central Florida just got—despite what some people may tell you–the edge of the storm that had plowed into the state on Marco Island and was rapidly being down graded as it pushed thru the state.

As you can see in my picture above–a house in my area with a tree on the roof at the corner of the garage—the tropical storm force winds with hurricane strength gusts did do a number on us we are thankful that she didn ‘t pack a 4/5 strength punch wen she got here—one article I saw explained why they only rank hurricanes up to 5—basically once it gets that bad most people stop counting and say a prayer or kiss their butts good bye.

Our thankfulness however was tempered with living in houses that resembled mad saunas rather than habitats.    My power was off until Thurs evening….but some of my friends just got on yesterday and a few people in the heavier hit areas to the west and south especially are still out.

Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they’re no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it’s no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

Bernard Goldberg

It started forever before the actual incident when the news media started to make headlines for what was one of—if not the–biggest and baddest hurricanes ever.  All day everyday you got accounts, miles of hours it was up to—how big (and she was BIG), and so on and so forth—and many of us became fixated, watching the movements and then she hit the islands….and we watched pictures of flooding and wind damage and so on and so forth.

Then she hit the Keys—they say about 70% of the homes there were effected—a vacation spot I have frequented often over the years—and though it is not totally destroyed it is badly damaged….they just started letting those that evacuated, return to Key West yesterday.  I heard one lady who was on the news and was still residing in a home that is being further encroached on by water say that Key West is gone—no my dear not by a long shot but…it is badly wounded.

She was then predicted to go up the coast—not something that helped a lot—first a storm over the warm waters (even just partially) will maintain it’s winds and rains and with the size of this storm that did not look good…However she ploughed in at Marco Island and most of her bulk dragged over the land, shearing her and lowering her winds while increasing her ground speed—a good thing to keep her from redeveloping.

It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig a tunnel under the English Channel. There’s no reason they couldn’t likewise devise ways to protect infrastructure from the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and other calamities, natural and manmade.

Henry Petroski

There are several things I don’t understand about Florida—why they don’t do more to avoid wide spread disasters,, damage and outage in their laws and requirements:  Take Mobile and the like homes—-some one once said God didn’t like them—I’m inclinded to agree….and in Florida were a bad thunderstorm can routinely rip them apart are they allowed to continue…and does anybody actually insure them and if so who?…..I know they make nice homes for retirees, but they can also all too often can turn into instant coffins.

In a state noted for it’s big lakes and huge swamps. not to mention heavy downpours, nasty thunderstorm and of course hurricanes why are people allowed to build on or around flood planes. At least one friend lives in a community that became dry land after a levy was installed—and they weren’t required to have flood insurance—hint if you don’t have flood insurance and the levy breaks—you could well be in hot water after the flood waters recedes.

Why aren’t the electrical all under ground??? Most cities have part above and part below ground—I heard a talk by a news person that putting them underground cost the companies so much more money without them having any gains from it—the fact that they didn’t have to bring staff from all over the country and all that overtime,, repair costs, transportation etc. that would have been avoided seem like something that might well be avoided seems like a positive to me….but I just write a blog and don’t run a company.

Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against danger with building codes and levees, and by setting aside money to clean up afterwards.

Seth Shostak

I woke up about 1 am on Monday morning–the electric was out—many people told me that theirs went out at 5 or 6 the evening before–well before the harder winds had hit and I stayed awake listening to the non-stop winds and the much noisier gusts—and the thing falling on the roof, some of the just little bumps, others sounding at least to me, like a freight train hitting the house.    I was not alone but was the only one not sleeping—-we did get the generator set up before sleep returned……I set in the kitchen where the noise of the gusts was the quietest and still it pounded against me…the next day my front porch rug which is protected on four sides was soaking wet and there was dirt and debris–thru the screen —on my front door.

I tried to loose my awareness of the still gusting winds when I finally could see them as day light broke….I spent time on my phone….doing Facebook and my mail and whatever else was available…but watching the limbs on the tall ancient trees in my neighborhood made the sound of the wind all the more impressive, even though it had declined in severity from the night before.

I watched TV—have a DVD player and have been collecting movies and (mostly British) TV shows and these helped me get my mind off the fact that I was just setting there waiting for whatever came—I am a woman of activity and given that fact it made my setting there with nothing to be able to do make the whole thing more difficult for me to get thru.

No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them than poor ones.

Robert Zubrin

But all is well  with me and I have caught up on  episode 301  (above)

and 302 (below)  so feeling better and hoping the season (Hurricane not OUTLANDER) ends SOON.

                                             We’ve had hurricanes in Florida forever. And the question is, ‘What do we do about the fact that we have built expensive structures, real estate and population centers, near those vulnerable areas?’

Marco Rubio

Even the IRS is getting into  the act—check out their contribution to the Irma Relief:  https://www.irs.gov/newsroom

                                                        OH the Main picture is from Julianna’s on 4th Street in Mt. Dora

https://www.bing.com/search?q=juliannas+mt+dora&form=EDNTHT&mkt=en-us&httpsmsn=1&refig=fc0f5c97ff3a4ba8c76f20c1489939cb&sp=-1&ghc=1&pq=undefined&sc=0-14&qs=n&sk=&cvid=fc0f5c97ff3a4ba8c76f20c1489939cb

The Hurricane Story sign is from Cody’s On FourthCafe

http://www.codyson4th.com/

                                                                      and I snapped the cutie (white Puppy) of the day

While getting my regular coffee and Sunday a apple Fritter at

Coffee Branch also in Mt. Dora

https://www.facebook.com/Coffee-Branch-Cafe-1491879991142892/

And the last picture—their regular sign is blown away and was replaced with some apparently cloth item till they can get it replaced–Walk in the Woods

https://shopwalkinthewoods.com/

As promised returning to the 60’s  and part two of 1965 today….the initial and all of my personal photos are from

A fantastic shop I discovered in Deland last weekend.   Talk about a Groovy Lady—someone that knew what the 60s were like—there are still a few of us left and someone who is still doing and being which is even rarer…..But I hope you enjoy the picture as much as I did the shop.

Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping