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How glad I was about Etta's trip only poor things, they had to have a tragedy as she says.  Am glad it was no worse, and that all went well while she was gone.  Aunt Emily I sniffed at your mint a long time and the Malory Brook association is stronger than the roast forequarter of a Sunday.  I don't approve of either the sunflower or golden rods for our national flower.  The country is too big and too various to have any flower, and besides it is not in the feeling of our country to have any flower for emblem.  It ought to be a star or the rising sun or something of that kind.  All them so far are.  I hope the whole thing will fall through. It seems to me silly.

I can imagine just how it is at home now.  The Cava high and in bloom- the pear trees, though you said there were not many Seckles.  The cut up tomatoes you will have and the coming home to Emma's clean house.  Would that I could be there and here too, or that I could give you all more of this.  In the evenings I am all too tired to do anything.  May and I generally lie down on my little narrow bed after tea and spoon, with one window open toward the sea, which never seems really like the sea, as there is no sea breeze even when the wind blows in that direction but you see out to sea and it is moonlight now too.  I'm glad there are no more parties.

The day contains quiet enough distraction and I have no strength for anything but my pictures.  This afternoon they had a procession which we went to and were just too late for unluckily.  The ceremony of blessing the sea.  There is a little tiny stone chapel on the rocks by one of the digues looking out to sea, and in front of it a great cross - a crucifix really on some steps - like this [[image]].  The women go there in the evening to pray and they had flowers all around the base.

Transcription Notes:
The image is illustration of the chapel and crucifix Cava (Corydalis Cava)- type of flower Seckle - a type of pear tree The chapel is La Chapelle de la Croix in Concarneau, France