Donna and took a shower together-which is where I first proposed to her:Hammond Castle

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I first proposed marriage to Donna in the shower. Now its tentative, but we went back last night to say I love you to each other. Point being, she's cute with her hair wet.
Hammond Castle in Gloucester- oddly enough, known to Harvard as Glosta, is one of my "beautiful places on earth". If only that, just that. Did God create Love and the Universe on the same day- I'm agnostic, beauty is truth no matter what Runes you use.

Donna and Scott: Stevie Nicks - Rhiannon (live in Boston)

Right before what would have been my favorite song from the concert, Donna and I thought it would be ok to walk up the aisle and bring her to the ladies room. She said, "I love this song." The concert hall was small enough so that I could watch the stage while waiting. We walked briskly holding hands back to our seats before the song ended. What was important was that we had to go somewhere, that instance it was back to our seats, and we were alone together as a couple while getting there: we spent a wonderful Labor Day weekend together on Good Harbor Beach so the song has a special meaning between us after our needing to hurry to catch a train. I have since found no available footage from the October concert.
I need it right now. I see now need to keep it a secret having your period can coincide with a very needed expensive vacation. Now were are back in the city and I happen to be very fond of "my Rhiannon". The last thing she happened to say before falling asleep last night was , "I love you". Holding hands in bed as well as in public.

Scott Lord

Donna and Scott:Stand Back by Stevie Nicks- Boston 3/30/11

Stevie Nicks opened the concert in October with "Stand Back". I have since found no available footage from the October oceanfront concert.

Scott Lord

Donna loved this performance: Stevie Nicks - Dreams (Live in Boston, 8/29/11)

Apparently, if I were to ask you to meet me where Donna and I often spend time together near Harvard, to the University, it would be on the outskirts of the Porcelain Club, know to its students by its initials and founded by some austere, if not aloof, member named McKean, which would give the title of a film-novel, The McKean Imperative. I'm borrowing it to have a coffee and its where I ran an errand for Norwegian shag rolling tobbacco.
I didn't have time to type after attending church with Donna yesterday- book of Mark and the appearance of angels after the resurrection finished and onto the book of James. But she does like to sing in church and we had a beautiful time, after which she took me to dinner again, cheeseburgers and coffee, before our going shopping.
Not only does she truly enjoy singing in church, she loved this live performance by Stevie Nicks and was singing and swaying the night of the concert.

Scott Lord

Donna and I went to the Fitz Hugh Lane House after dark: skimming biography of Winslow Homer

Before going to Bearskin Neck, Donna and went to the Fitz Hugh Lane House after dark during our Labor Day stay on Good Harbor Beach.
It rejuvenated my interest and I have been skimming a biography of Winslow Homer. There are paintings of his of Gloucester Harbor and apparently he liked the people in Annisquam, but two of his works are particularly masterful: The Look Out and Eight Bells.
I spent much of today reading the magazines printed in Cape Ann and looking for out of print material on the area.

Donna and I went to Bearskin Neck after spending the night on Good Harbor

(This isn't my photo, but may I please borrow it?)

At first, I didn't think we would be able to include during the Labor Day weekend, but when I found out that a cab was unnecessary and that a bus ran from Gloucester to Rockport, we went directly there after check out, our arriving around noon. We boarded the bus out of Rockport right before the rain. Donna went shopping and I visited Motif Number One, which I haven't seen in twenty years. The first time I visited was on a bicycle in high school. There is a scrimshaw shop that had almost the same schooner pendant that had bought that year in Manchester harbor, but the artist had closed the shop for the season and will soon be retiring. Donna came across a ring that she liked, a silver claddagh. She has that happy with it. It now replaces the ring I quickly brought her back from Park Street in Boston. It almost seemed fitting that Hammond Castle and being alone at sunset on Good Harbor Beach would end the summer, our having been alone together all summer in a small apartment compared to the vast expanse of the horizon on the beach, a contrast having been established between the indoor and outdoor spaces, and Rockport in the rain, quieter, colder, a harbor seen from inside a coffee shop, would begin the Fall: Rockport before the leaves begin to change. We did have coffee on Bearskin Neck; it was beautiful. The night before she had found the North Shore Radio Station (oldies-Seventies A.M.) and had stayed up late singing. When we passed the church at Dock Square I asked her if we she wanted to go in and pray. I began it when she prayed at both King's Chapel and the Park Street Church. If we are out, and I find a church that is open, I ask her if she would like to go to the altar. My theorem is that you can go inside any open church and more important you can escort anyone into any church if they have the need or desire to use it for worship. I asked the minister and she went inside the church, which is Baptist. Before departing from Gloucester I bought Donna a copy of the Mass. It's a thin black volume that says something like liturgical on it with petitions to Saints and the Communion, the Lord's Prayer interrupted by the words of a Priest about sin. I have seen her cross herself, so I thought she might be interested in the actual Mass as celebrated. [Plus she went to Georgian Court College for the Philosophy of Art and Journalism after her having decided against scholarships to Douglas, Cedar Crest, Muhlenburg (she got in!).]
I told her it was sincerely from me. While we were taking the trolley, she wanted to buy a necklace on Rocky Neck and was thrilled that I later brought her to Bearskin Neck. I found out that I may have just missed Liv Ullmann. According to a Cape Ann publication, she evidently will be speaking in Gloucester movie theater later in the month of September, 2011. Please pass on a blessing if you happen to speak to her, if not a many thanks in general. The film Faithless is scheduled for a screening- I was there three weeks too early.