Season 
of 
Orange
October is a month for graves on account of Halloween.  
Anyone who has regularly visited this site has noticed
 photos of various graves, especially the poet's grave 
of M. JL Kerouac.  
So why didn't I have photos of any of the 'easy' 
graves of famous local philosophers, poets, or authors?
that when I went to Concord in the past it didn't
occur to me to visit the poet's ridge.  Why?  Well,
usually I am on some long commute back from work 
in the evening and I end up going through Concord
on account of grid lock from Lawrence to Walpole.  
There are all kinds of 'back' roads.  
They are long and winding.  They snake through the 
various vales in the land where town 
centers have impossible intersections.  
You soon find the 'worst' intersections 
and you avoid them.  Number one worst intersection near
my house:  the south bound of 126 drops off into 
Wayland center.  Typically the back up on a weekday 
(circa 5 PM) involves a 20 minute wait.  The cars 
go all the way back to Lincoln.  Also, 
in the mornings, the north bound merge onto 
route 20 is a crawl.  It doesn't matter if 
you try to circumvent it with clever turns, 
you will get stalled for at least three 
or four light cycles.

There are secret ways through all of
 this but I'm not telling.  Go buy a map.

In any case these last few days have 
been awesome and bright with vibrant
 October light. And thus here we are
 in the season of orange.  Orange and red 
and yellow and sunlight and 
New England stone wall cliches.  
Rivers with leaves swirling in them.  
Courtyards with whirlwinds of fallen 
maples leaves.  The shuttering rain 
of same colored leaves which all 
seem to shed from the tree in 
the same orientation, like little 
boats adrift upon the seas of Autumn winds.  
What a wondrous day.

And so today I went up to the hill.


And then I went to the ridge

You see some famous names on the graves at the ridge.
Emerson

Thoreau

Hawthorne

Alcott


Next I went to the bridge.


You see a place of battle at the bridge.

26 October 2009