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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jan 1, 2013
Description:
“Year’s End” by Richard Wilbur
“Now winter downs the dying of the year,
And night is all a settlement of snow;
From the soft street the rooms of houses show
A gathered light, a shapen atmosphere,
Like frozen-over lakes whose ice is thin
And still allows some stirring down within.”
Date Taken:
Jan 1, 2013
Place Taken:
Lake Apopka, FL
Owner:
Dan Nickens
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Category:
31, Twilight Flights
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Dan Nickens - Jan 01,2013
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'I’ve known the wind by water banks to shake<br />The late leaves down, which frozen where they fell<br />And held in ice as dancers in a spell<br />Fluttered all winter long into a lake;<br />Graved on the dark in gestures of descent,<br />They seemed their own most perfect monument.<br /><br />There was perfection in the death of ferns<br />Which laid their fragile cheeks against the stone<br />A million years. Great mammoths overthrown<br />Composedly have made their long sojourns,<br />Like palaces of patience, in the gray<br />And changeless lands of ice. And at Pompeii.'<br />
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Dan Nickens - Jan 01,2013
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'The little dog lay curled and did not rise<br />But slept the deeper as the ashes rose<br />And found the people incomplete, and froze<br />The random hands, the loose unready eyes<br />Of men expecting yet another sun<br />To do the shapely thing they had not done.'<br />
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Dan Nickens - Jan 01,2013
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'These sudden ends of time must give us pause.<br />We fray into the future, rarely wrought<br />Save in the tapestries of afterthought.<br />More time, more time. Barrages of applause<br />Come muffled from a buried radio.<br />The New-year bells are wrangling with the snow.”<br /><br />
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Don Maxwell - Jan 01,2013
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Not to interrupt your romantic, pensive mood, Dan. Of <I>course</I> not! But...<P>The North Wind doth blow,<BR>And we shall have snow,<BR>And what shall the poor robin do then?<BR>Poor thing!<P>He'll sit in the barn,<BR>And keep himself warm,<BR>And hide his head under his wing,<BR>Poor thing!<P>The North Wind doth blow,<BR>And we shall have snow,<BR>And what will the dormouse do then?<BR>Poor thing!<P>Rolled up like a ball,<BR>In his nest snug and small,<BR>He'll sleep till warm weather comes in.<BR>Poor thing!<P><BR>Or this alternate version:<P>The north wind doth blow,<BR>And we shall have snow,<BR>And raaaaaaiiiiiiin!<BR>And stooooorrrrrrmmy weather!<P><BR>Or Siri's version last night:<P><img src="inline/20025-SiriTemp.jpg" alt="SiriTemp"><!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Dan Nickens - Jan 01,2013
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Pensive?<br /><br />Hmmm....and here I was thinking that the warm SeaRey scenes of a perfectly fluid environment were a fine counterpoint to Mr. Wilbur's cold verse!<br /><br />Though I am sympathic about the poor robin stuck in that barn, I think I'll just wait until it snows to try out pensive.<br /><br />I think I'll not wait until it snows for the romance.
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Frank A. Carr - Jan 01,2013
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I hate to spoil the erudite discussions here with a question lacking of inspiration, but Dan, your photos suggest that you fly after sunset? Do you enjoy flying the SR after dark? Do others fly their SR's at night?<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Dan Nickens - Jan 01,2013
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I do! I do enjoy flying in the dark, Frank. Some people say it's the only kind of flying I do.
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Don Maxwell - Jan 01,2013
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There's a big difference between flying after dark and landing on the water after dark. I enjoy the former, but have never tried the latter. Maybe Dan has, though.<br /><br />Dave Edward has accused me of landing after dark in Turtle Cove, where he lives on Lake Ontario, but that he could see the airplane from shore is good evidence that it wasn't really dark. (Yet.) And in any case, there was a perfect breeze whipping up wavelets that made the landing easy.
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Dan Nickens - Jan 01,2013
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Quite right, Don, and as you note, there are shades of darkness. On the night in question, Frank, it was still 'civil twilight' when I alighted on the home lake.
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Don Maxwell - Jan 01,2013
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Can you imagine getting night current in a straight floatplane?
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Dave Edward - Jan 02,2013
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I dunno Don. Dave King still talks about that approach and landing. John D and I watched with slack jawed amazement as you went down wind and then came back in. Seemed pretty dark to me......maybe 50 shades of dark would cover it.
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Frank A. Carr - Jan 02,2013
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'50 Shades of Dark'---sounds like the Title of a mystery novel, or better yet, a Tale by Dan
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John Robert Dunlop - Jan 02,2013
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Fifty shades of dark it was, Don. I agree with Dave!
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Don Maxwell - Jan 02,2013
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It <I>was</I> pretty dark under the trees. I think that was the time I missed Dave's ramp coming ashore--couldn't see it--and had to back down for a second try. But there was plenty of light out in open water and would have been for another 10 or 15 minutes.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Larry Woods - Jan 12,2013
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Hi Don:<br /><br />Dave Edward ............. now who would believe him? (vbg)<br /><br />Best,<br />Larry
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