... this afternoon, a glorious autumn day in which the sky was cloudless and the temperature reached into the low-80s at times, mike drove us on a little wanderabout of the ocean state ... we stopped at the mataunak oyster bar, where he enjoyed three different kinds of oysters while as slowly as i could i partook of 1-1/2 pounds of just-out-of-the-mud-flats native rhode island steamers ...
... there're times i don't even bother trying to resist ...
... true rhode islanders, it is said, know the best time of year to enjoy the coast ...
... after, we drove down to point judith, surprised to find that the old restaurant had been torn down ... from there we wandered north through narragansett, then stopped to revisit the house above the beach at bonnet shores where he lived while he was in college ... odd, after all these years, to see the driveway where i first lovingly applied five coats of wax to my datsun 510 ... other memories, too ...
... back at the house, a reminder that today's balmy weather was not a trend, but, more so because my brother and i shared it, a wonderful respite ...
