lobster boats, polaroids & healing

Polaroid daffodils from Tuesday - a summer day in April

As many of you may know Polaroid film became defunct beginning in 2008. I just happen (luckily) to have a stash in my fridge (3 film paks of 10 shots each) and a few shots left in the film pak that's currently in my camera. I've decided to only use the remaining film for flowers - for this kind of film seems wasted on far away vistas, landscapes or views without a vibrant punch of colour.

This early morning the sounds outside our open windows are the roar of lobster boats racing out of our little harbour and into the Strait. The season starts tomorrow and today they'll set their pots/traps. I listen always to a Prince Edward Island CBC radio station and today they're broadcasting from the docks, all the talk is lobster talk. It's a big deal, huge crowds gather to wave the boats (36 from their shores) out and into the open ocean for this beginning of another lobster fishing season. Here in our little village, 50 paces from our front door is the park that runs along the harbours edge and early this morning a small crowd would have also gathered (we weren't up early enough to join them although I always mean to). People sit in their cars along the park or at picnic tables under the trees that are just beginning to bud, watching the dozen or so fisherman from this harbour and their boats ceremoniously trailing out into the Strait. It really feels like the unofficial beginning of summer it's the day that marks the end of our sleepy little winter village and the start of a bustling, busy, summer destination village. A Cape Cod of the North we are. I saw a Land Rover at the grocery store the other day another sure sign that the season has begun.

Winnie's coming along great. Her Mama on the other hand, well, she's much slower to heal. Scar tissue. She's been having a hard time dealing with this serious knee injury- sleepless nights, Worry & Fret have been hangin' around for days then sure enough the rest of the motley crew arrives - Ache and Sadness - they all loaf around here eating pizza pops and playing video games too loudly. Mama becomes distracted and can't concentrate. And she dreams of someone to look after her.

Although yesterday was a bit better. I slept a bit longer and sounder, I noticed Miss D in the afternoon used her bad leg to give under her chin a good scratch and it didn't seem to hurt her and last night when we walked down to the edge of the park she was beginning, tentatively, to put a little weight on that foot.

I watched the movie 21 grams last night - in my top 10 fav movies. Sean Penn and Naomi Watts are amazing in it. One of those movies that makes you feel - so intensely. Also by the same director/writer/cinematographer is Babel - also in my top 10 - visually stunning, heart breaking characters and plots that force you to participate in them.