Sophie's World ~ A Summer Solstice Walk

In the late afternoon on the summer solstice,  Sophie decided to take a walk around her world.  Sophie lives with Ophelia, her mother,  her Uncle Othello and Tuck, their loyal canine companion in an old style shingled house with green trimmings on a hill overlooking a spring fed pond in rural Massachusetts.  Her caregivers are Mistress Elizabeth and Master Papa.  At night Sophie enjoys writing stories on the computer, reading historical novels and laying around on her queensize bed as the Mistress brushes all the burrs from her long gray hair.





















"Hey Othello, wake up, wake up.  It's late afternoon and you are sleeping away the first day of summer.  I'm going out walking.  I hear the birds singing...I think Papa put some new bird seed in the feeders.  You know what that means, don't you?  Red cardinal for supper or maybe a tasty little finch?  What, you don't want to get up?  Oh you were out all night catting last night?  The Mistress isn't going to like that! 




"Looks like that old Othello cares more about romps in the dark and hangin' out with loose women.  I don't know why the Mistress puts up with him.  The Mistress says he's like the Prodigal Son...some son I would say! Good thing he's not Catholic...he would spend every Saturday afternoon in the Confessional.  Nope, he's Will's cat and follows the Jewish faith.  I don't think they have confessions...but then again, what do I know.  I'm a good little Catholic girl.  I mind my p's and q's!  Well, we certainly aren't getting anywhere in here.  Why don't you follow me outside...I want to show you my world."




This is the front porch.  It's a lovely place to hang out on a rainy day.  Papa has hung some lovely bird hangers here and you just can't believe how easy it is to nab one of those little flying things".




The Mistress planted catnip right here...it's the blue flower that is waving in the wind. 




"On the other side are Evening Primroses.  The Mistress says that is a good Irish plant....this year it has exceeded expectations and is taking over many of the gardens.  I told her earlier in the Spring that she needed to give some away, but did she listen?  Nah, she was too busy on that computer...fritting her time away.  Now look what she has...a garden full of flowers that come out in  the night!"


 




"Oh my, look whose taking a sunbath.  Is that you Mama?


"Sophia, don't draw attention to me.  I am in my hunting mode right now.  I'm waiting for little Miss Mousey to come out from the stone wall.  I know she's in there because I saw her pink nose just minutes ago.  Are you giving a tour of the place? 





"We'll leave Mama alone right now.  She's busy hunting for our Solstice Feast and we'll go down and see Mistress Mary.  The Mistress does some mumbly-jumbly stuff with beads here...but I just like hangin' out and getting a good scratch from the lady...."



"Now that was good.  Let's carry on...."



"The Mistress really should do some weeding around here.  It's a bit overgrown."






 "I wonder if the girl is sitting up on her chair?  Let me take a peek."



"Nope, she's not laying around today reading in her favorite spot.  Let's go around the side of the house and see if she's there.  Maybe, just maybe, she's down the pond."






"There's her wildlife garden....it was for her son Aaron, who I heard from the other boys,  was a wild thing himself.  Just wildflowers go there  and the Mistress never weeds it.  What grows, grows...what doesn't, doesn't.  My Mistress sure is eccentric."



"Further down the path, one can see the pond."



















"So that's the place.  Nice little hideaway, wouldn't you say?  Let's go back up front...I'm exhausted...I think I'll take a little nap in the steamer chair."




"Oh, darn, the Mistress has it!"


"Guess I need to find some place else.  Oh, look, there's Mama."


"Well, thanks for stopping by...hope you enjoyed the tour of my little world.  Have to go...need to take my afternoon nap.  You know, naps are really good for you.  Most writers I know take naps! Bye!"