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Aunt Dora Baggins
Half-elven
Nov 17 2012, 3:33pm
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I love that. It reminds me of so many places in the mountains around here. There's a place we call Grandfather Bridge, where my family has been scattering the ashes of our dead for 60 years. Sixty years ago it was a highway bridge; my mother and her mother were on their way up into the park to scatter her father's ashes, and the road was closed by snow, so they stopped there. But fifty years ago the park moved the road and the entrance, and the old road became a footpath, and the highway bridge was replaced by a footbridge. Trees have grown up in the path since then, and it's not used much even by foot.
I'm also reminded of the old railroad grades my husband likes to hunt up. We've gone walking on places where the trains used to run in the mountains a hundred years ago. Now you can only recognize them because there's a strangely level place along a hillside, and an occasional rusted railroad spike. Here's an example of a place we went this fall. You can see remnants of the old trestle.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
leleni at hotmail dot com
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(This post was edited by Aunt Dora Baggins on Nov 17 2012, 3:34pm)
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Weekly poetry thread.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Nov 15 2012, 1:28pm
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Great choice, Aunt Dora!
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wendy woo
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Nov 16 2012, 3:04am
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Hee!
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Nov 16 2012, 1:08pm
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I will forever associate this with the Anne of Green Gables mini-series. =) //
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
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Nov 16 2012, 3:27am
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Along with Tennyson's The Lady of Shalot.
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wendy woo
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Nov 16 2012, 3:29am
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I can beat that.
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silneldor
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Nov 16 2012, 6:33am
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A great poem
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Ciars
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Nov 17 2012, 8:44am
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Wow!
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Nov 17 2012, 3:33pm
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Great photos!
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Ciars
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Nov 17 2012, 5:18pm
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