Then, When This Season Too Has Passed...

 Is there any place you would love to see that isn't too far away?

 I asked Victoria on Saturday as we tried to think of a way to make her 18th birthday memorable.
So, being a bit of a history buff she decided on

the Civic Museum (in the building that used to be a convent) 

and Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate 

 What a structure!!!

and Janus Books (a buy-and-sell bookstore) where we each bought a book 

as a memento of the day...

Then, when this season too has passed

Gathered its best and worst

And pressed it into pictures cast

With tinctures blessed and cursed

The best that we can strive for, dear

Where Time swings soundless gates

Is to embrace right now, right here

Before it dissipates

Those plans we prize with wayward eyes

Though dreams can kindle joy

Ought not to rob us of glad sighs

That Here and Now employ

For what may seem quite commonplace

As far as moments go

Soon whets the salt-star on the face

When tender echoes flow

To games and tricks that thought can play

We ought to be on guard

Today is always eager prey

For morrow’s s mystic bard

And who knows what its beggar brings

To keen a humble prayer

Before the whisper of it clings

To fragments of thin air

…then, when this season too has passed

Like all seasons before

To join the everlasting cast

Of what will be no more

The best that we can hope to keep

Of intangible gold

Is what we make with days that sweep

In moments through our hold

© Janet Martin

 Another thing that made this day memorable was a newly-tried Orange Layer Cake