Tidying up

Mom arrives Thursday for the better part of a week, along with two aunts and a cousin, so naturally we're laying in supplies, doing a little cleaning (not made any easier by the total failure of the mechanical door to the laundry) and primping the house and gardens.

Busy time -- and perfect for posting a few leftover images from the Yucatan cruise. Here are three moments at sea that took my breath away -- evening, the moonlit night and dawn. Add your own music and lyrics ad lib:


[I'll add a Whitman lyric here, one set to music by Vaughan Williams:

Word over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage,
must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night,
incessantly softly
wash again, and ever again,
this soil'd world. . . .]