whitebelly puffer

It was October again when Anne was ready to go back to school—a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain—amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue.

idiotized by hunger

Shows the end of a Windlass roller, having a lifting rope attached and wooden handspoke inserted.