These are the picturess I cropped and tinted to make up the David collage which is on my (other!) blog. Just for historical accuracy. In the Aquinnah picture you can see the red and grey clay baths, which for environmental reasons are no longer accessible. Aquinnah is the Wampanoag word for Gay Head, sometime in the recent past the PC police renamed the town because I guess injun is less bad than gay. It was given its anglo name by Samuel Gosnald who first charted Martha's Vineyard. These vivid reds and greys and some tans run up the face of a sheer cliff which is instantly recognizable from its "gay" colors. The one in the mirror was in a shack on Nantucket. I believe I took it in recognition of the fact that I wouldn't always be 26 and I might want a relic from the period.
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