Sunday, May 5, 2019

a southerly place

prescribed relaxation
for our frigid, sickly
& (mostly) wealthy
northern kin

 plotted out by a northerner named Tufts
after a dream was sold him
by a southerner jack-of-all-trades

choose your poison
water

i can see for miles & miles & miles...how to get here from there...or the center of the known universe

#2

or how to make them swear

momentary puzzler

view into the dining room

it's a snap

in her later years, she resided in Pinehurst & continued to amaze

Annie Oakley, shooting the sky, & her husband crouched low at the table behind

Annie Oakley & her bird dog

there were just a few golfers in town
golf bags-in-waiting

we took a circular stroll through the village


detail: old theater building

land of pines
 pineforest in the middle of pinehurst


windy ferns


"enterprising & ambitious" was he 

a window at The Holly Inn, the first hotel in the resort village of Pinehurst

lobby of The Holly Inn

stem-up
chandelier globes in the octagonal music room, The Holly Inn


"for health seekers (and golfers)"