25 May 2005


I've only got about a year left here so there are a few things I need to get done. Foremost on the list is to go across the street on a regular basis with a camera and a couple of glasses of beer to document a season in Warren's garden. And Warren will be standing in the long planting beds in his well-worn overalls and straw hat blooming with 80 years of fine stories . We'll sip at the beer and he'll tell me about such events as being awoken early one morning by the humming drone of the doomed Hindenburg's engines at his parent's house on the Vinyard; about when he bought a case of dynamite no-questions-asked in order to "dig" a quick irrigation ditch to feed his garden on the Cape; about seeing Ted Williams in the outfield at Fenway in 1939; and, after asking about the inner workings of my camera, he'll mention his side-job developing the officer's risque photos taken on R&R during the war in the Pacific.

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