Comments on: Out & About: Dairy Queen http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/ Life in South Berwick, Maine Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:44:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: DJ Leonard http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/comment-page-1/#comment-612 DJ Leonard Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:31:35 +0000 http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/#comment-612 I heard the peepers Thursday as I was driving by the old Janetos farmhouse on 101 in Dover, just before the golf course. Pulled over for a few minutes to listen. It sounded especially sweet this spring. Last Saturday, I was also happy to note a pair of swans making their stately progression along the Salmon Falls as it curves past Hamilton House. Such a contrast against the gray day! I heard the peepers Thursday as I was driving by the old Janetos farmhouse on 101 in Dover, just before the golf course. Pulled over for a few minutes to listen. It sounded especially sweet this spring. Last Saturday, I was also happy to note a pair of swans making their stately progression along the Salmon Falls as it curves past Hamilton House. Such a contrast against the gray day!

]]> By: JaneCF http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/comment-page-1/#comment-605 JaneCF Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:20:04 +0000 http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/#comment-605 Wendy - I remember stumbling on that blue carpet the first time - must have been when we lived above the library and I was taking a short cut on a walk - it was astonishingly beautiful! Remember thinking - "what are these?" and "surely this isn't an accident?!" I think my favorite spring thing though is the peepers - we didn't have them where I grew up in Colorado - the first time I heard them my husband quoted that line from the Frost poem "like a ghost of sleigh bells in a ghost of snow" - perfect. The poem was Hyla Brook - and it ends with the line "We love the things we love for what they are". No peepers behind our house yet, but any day now... Wendy – I remember stumbling on that blue carpet the first time – must have been when we lived above the library and I was taking a short cut on a walk – it was astonishingly beautiful! Remember thinking – “what are these?” and “surely this isn’t an accident?!”

I think my favorite spring thing though is the peepers – we didn’t have them where I grew up in Colorado – the first time I heard them my husband quoted that line from the Frost poem “like a ghost of sleigh bells in a ghost of snow” – perfect. The poem was Hyla Brook – and it ends with the line “We love the things we love for what they are”. No peepers behind our house yet, but any day now…

]]> By: ladyjane http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/comment-page-1/#comment-604 ladyjane Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:19:39 +0000 http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/#comment-604 Not that the Dairy Queen isn't breathtaking! That's great, too! Not that the Dairy Queen isn’t breathtaking! That’s great, too!

]]> By: ladyjane http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/comment-page-1/#comment-603 ladyjane Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:19:14 +0000 http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/#comment-603 I wondered what those were. We used to live in that area of town and always made it a point to go see the blue 'carpet' of flowers. It is breathtaking. I wondered what those were. We used to live in that area of town and always made it a point to go see the blue ‘carpet’ of flowers. It is breathtaking.

]]> By: Molly http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/comment-page-1/#comment-602 Molly Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:18:25 +0000 http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/#comment-602 I was thinking about that patch of woods when I wrote this. I will have to get a picture and post it here. It makes me happy to see it when I go to the post office this time of the year. One of the things I love about roaming around New England is coming upon evidence of the hand of some long ago gardener who was, probably unbeknown to him or her, leaving a legacy of beauty for future generations. I was thinking about that patch of woods when I wrote this. I will have to get a picture and post it here. It makes me happy to see it when I go to the post office this time of the year. One of the things I love about roaming around New England is coming upon evidence of the hand of some long ago gardener who was, probably unbeknown to him or her, leaving a legacy of beauty for future generations.

]]> By: Wendy http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/comment-page-1/#comment-600 Wendy Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:51:31 +0000 http://the236diner.com/2008/04/11/out-about-dairy-queen/#comment-600 One of my favorite spring scenes in South Berwick is the carpet of bright blue Siberian Squill that explodes every year in the little patch of woods behind the library. You can also see it from the post office/Ocean Bank parking lot. Watch for it this month. At its peak it is astonishing, and makes you wonder how it ever got started. The woods are owned by Historic New England and were part of the original Jewett family land. One of my favorite spring scenes in South Berwick is the carpet of bright blue Siberian Squill that explodes every year in the little patch of woods behind the library. You can also see it from the post office/Ocean Bank parking lot. Watch for it this month. At its peak it is astonishing, and makes you wonder how it ever got started. The woods are owned by Historic New England and were part of the original Jewett family land.

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