After our trip to the mountains we went to stay in my sister's beachside cottage. This isn't her cottage, but I think it is the most intriguing house on the lake. Thornewood was constructed from a 500-year-old Elizabethan manor brought in pieces to America 100 years ago. It was featured in Stephen King's movie Rose Red in which my sister performed as an extra.
On lazy afternoons we sat beside the lake reading, chatting, eating fruit and other toothsome tidbits, and watching the eagles prowl the sky.
Two evenings near sunset, we took a boat ride around the lake. I like to go fast, feel the wind and the spray in my face and hair until the thumping of the boat jars my bones and reminds me of my age.
Sometimes there are seals and Orca whales to see in this bay, but all we saw that evening were trains on the working tracks behind us. I counted the cars in memory of my mother.
She would have been pleased.
Between the Mountain and the Sea. You know that sounds like the title of an intriguing novel, don't you? Add in train whistles and sometimes seeing an Orca and picnics by the bay. And make sure there's romance in it too, please and just a tad of a Stephen King spookiness.
ReplyDeleteI really need a good read. I've not finished any of the stack of library books I chose last visit. Instead I pull old ones off my own shelves.
Write fast.
I know that hunger for something really good to read. Something I can't put down. Maybe I will write what you suggest and then dedicate it to you for suggesting it.
DeleteOh do that, please!
DeleteI am intrigued to know where this is - it is so beautiful and mysterious
ReplyDeleteAmerican Lake is located in Lakewood, Washington. Thornewood is now a bed and breakfast.
DeleteThank you for visiting my blog. I love your photographs of the mountains, lakes and waterfalls, they are so different to the gentle English fields and hedgerows.
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