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cliff side (Northern Head) and a very rocky promontory, like the cliffs along Green Pt., but higher, sharper, [[strikethrough]] more [[/strikethrough]], darker in color, and a good look down into a small cove - dark, with green water & the thinnest of wave break line. Wildflowers along the path: asters, goldenrod, everlasting, the late dandelion (?) clover, chickweed, etc. The vegetation was very much the same as that of Monhegan. To stores in search of cards. Dark Harbour at last in a good photo. Must return to D.H.

After supper (franks beans) a ride to South Head to see the sunset - and the astonishing cliffs & bay down there - a very dramatic fall of land in basaltic columns & jagged islets. A sound of water receding far over one shingle stone (Dover Beach?) Along the way - the clean, neat village of Seal Cove. The shoreline along the southern stretch. very beautiful. the roadscape: golden grass, aster & goldenrod, flickers, dark trees. Like Waipouli - Wailua, like Cape Cod, like Montauk, like all the sandy searoads I have known - low, windswept, salt-grey, like sad, personal, lyrical poems. My childhood? My most personal landscape that haunts me.