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Katherine Northrop: The Field the Drive-In Was in

                                                                                                                                                     David Branch photoThe Field the Drive-in Was In 

—what are we here? The hive mindanswers hive-ily, their suggestionsmake for us, make for us: brzoom, as high-school boys, cunt-struck.
“Oh we were young, oh we banged around the world,holding our arms out, hoping for what?”
All the while, something, my love, bore down on the boat, a powerquick and sickly, cut-throat. But we happened,
we happened, drawing each other out,reading newspapers, novels until the marinaswooped back into view.
Across the water, shimmering:powerful, calming, and regular as credits—
                                                         -Katherine Northrop                                                                             First published in Agni 80

Generations of Fiat 500: Amsterdam

Thanks to Guido Goluke.

1949 Ford F-1 (Marfa, Texas)

1963 Chevrolet C30 (Marfa, Texas)

Christmas Eve, Little Pink, Marfa Texas

Sunset, looking north, Pinto Canyon Road.

1964 Dodge D100, Marfa

Today same temperature in Marfa and Portland Me (37F). Snow in the mountains south of Alpine. Clear blue sky by 5pm, sliver of a crescent moon, waxing. It's actually 15 degrees warmer in Maine tonight, but raining.

Chevrolet C10 and the Pinto Canyon Road, Presidio County

                                                                                                                     All photos Basha BurwellWe reached Marfa after an arduous travel day that started at 300AM in Maine and included a mad family dash through Houston airport to catch a flight for ELP, and a wonderful three-hour drive across the desert with our chere amie Valerie. Glad to get here. Spent our first night ever in our house. Pat Rogers had parked our Chevy outside the Texas theater on Highland Avenue. At 700AM H & I walked over in the dark and brought the truck home. Yesterday evening was glowing when we headed out on the Pinto Canyon Road.

Lobsterboat 'Charlena" Brooklin Maine, and the warm seas of Maine

We head to TX tomorrow for Christmas, and some desert light. This may be our last post of the year from Maine, and what better than a lobsterboat? Charlena is about 65 years old, and going strong, though retired from the lobster biz. There was  an intersting piece in the NYT this week on warming waters and the fisheries in the Gulf of Maine.

Gulf 1937 (Black and white)

Thanks to Larry Nordell for this. I don't know anything about the photograph. Winter 1937 and somewhere down South. Georgia? Birmingham, Ala.? If you can read more clues, let us know. The careful probably instinctive way the men are posing for the camera... I'd say the black guy is precisely twice as far from the white guy as the two whites are from each other. He's standing at attention, the other two 'at ease'.