Into the Woods

Into the woods

And down the dell,

The path is straight,

I know it well.

Into the woods,

And who can tell

What's waiting on the journey?

Into the woods
To bring some bread
To Granny who
Is sick in bed.

 Never can tell
  What lies ahead.
  For all that I know,
  She's already dead.

But into the woods,
into the woods,
Into the woods
to Grandmother's house

And home before dark!

Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania, USA

Seattle, Washington, USA

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Lyrics from the musical Into the Woods.

Ooh Beads!

One of my favourite movies as a kid was Disney's Cinderella.  I watched it far too many times, and sang the songs from it constantly.  Driving my mother crazy was, in retrospect, apparently a preferred pastime of mine.  I digress.  In the film, Cinderella has many little friends who happen to be these charming mice.  The two main ones are named Jacques and Gus Gus.  Aw.  In one scene, the two of them find a bunch of pearls, and I cannot remember which one of them says it, but in a high, squeaky, shaky, excited mouse voice, whichever one it is screams "ooooooooh, beads!!"

I thought of that moment when I saw this lovely box full of beads in an antique store window.

New Canaan, Connecticut, USA

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Return to Ongweoweh

It sounds like the title for a teen fantasy novel, with a full story about how a young girl travels to a faraway land populated by magical and grotesque creatures, but really, it was the writing on a crate sitting in a trash pile in Greenwich Village.  I'm just wondering what it actually means, if Ongweoweh is a town, or if that's a misspelling- in any case, the crate was sitting in the trash, so unless Ongweoweh is a garbage compactor... it probably will not be returned there.

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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All in a Row

Punts on the River Cam

Cambridge, England, UK

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