new view

Standing on tippy-toes at the highest point in the backyard I can just make out a dove-colored shadow--which I know to be on the other side of a bay, but of which bay, I could not say. I think it's south of here, enough of an intuition to send me in search of the box with the atlas. Looking at the map only shuttles me into reveries of possible day trips, and I look up from the atlas a full half hour later, still ignorant. And distracted enough to seriously consider scrapping work for a day trip...