… and then a longer canal walk
through Georgetown, where
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
cuts through Washington.
UD stopped to pay her
respects to William O. Douglas,
an environmentalist who saved
the canal from people who
wanted to turn it into a
parkway. He was a Supreme
Court Justice too, as I’m
sure you know.
[Yes, it’s a creepy photo.
Only good one I could find.]
We saw many cormorants
in the trees, gazing at the
kayakers as if trying to decide
which ones to eat for lunch.
During last Saturday’s walk,
we decided we’d eventually
like to divide our time between
an apartment in Cracow, on
or near the Rynek, and an
apartment in Key West.
Today we decided we’d
eventually like to divide our
time between an apartment
in Old Town Warsaw and an
apartment one block off the
Boulevard Saint Germain.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:10PM
Phalacrocorax symposium:
The common cormorant (or shag)
Lays eggs inside a paper bag,
You follow the idea, no doubt?
It’s to keep the lightning out.
But what these unobservant birds
Have never thought of, is that herds
Of wandering bears might come with buns
And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:36PM
I’d long thought that it would be nice to live in Old Town Warsaw, or perhaps around the "New Town" rynek just to the north, but then three years ago my wife and I were taken by friends to visit some of their friends who lived in an enormous old apartment with high ceilings in Kraków overlooking Plac Dominikański, and we immediately put that on our dream list, along with West Cork, Tuscany, and Bermuda.
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:36PM
Polish Peter: Mr UD explains: “My choice of Warsaw is not because it’s the most beautiful and charming place in Poland. I grew up in Old Town, in an apartment on ‘Crooked Circle.'”
He used the Polish for Crooked Circle, but I can’t spell it…
October 4th, 2009 at 7:08AM
Indeed, I know the street. This looks like a nice pad:
http://www.travbuddy.com/Old-Town-Apartments-Krzywe-Kolo-Sky-v11155. Don’t get me wrong, I like Warsaw a lot. I’d keep Key West in the picture, though. Last November my wife and I took a walk in Lazienki Park at 3 PM. When darkness set in at 3:30, it had a real Hansel-and-Gretel feeling. Then the snow started…
October 4th, 2009 at 7:42AM
Cormorants are working their way rapidly up the list of nuisance birds around here. Their "you can’t hunt me–nyah, nyah, nyah!" attitude is awfully annoying.