by Mariana T.
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May 10, 2006

Last Night in Mariana T.'s World

August 13, 2008 05:15 PM EDT
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Last night the bull frog was extra loud.  His primordial throat bellowed out a baritone catapulting over the granite tomb of Rudy Frere, crawled through the wet Johnson grass, waded through a mud puddle, and then danced  with the  Main Street asphalt pushing a raucus melody through the  rippled  glass door  down the long hallway and into a deep dream.  

This strange harmony woke me.  Five minutes later a torrential sheet of rain pounded the shingled porch roof.  It fell in white ribbons and a sweet serenade of cloud song lulled me back to another place.

   

  

A few seconds into my sweet snore, thunder woke me. Bolts of jagged light zigzagged through the blue fiberglass curtains and illuminated red cypress floors. The hinges on my eyes squeaked open and I stared at the old wood reminding myself to sweep in the morning.  Salud
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Comments: 45

Cristina S. Aug 13, 2008, 5:31pm EDT
Sounds like you had an interesting night!
Rhetta A. Aug 13, 2008, 5:34pm EDT
Great article, and I love that graveyard picture. I used to live across the street from a cemetery. I wish I still did.
Vicky Duggins Aug 13, 2008, 5:34pm EDT
It sounds like you're in a heavenly place.
Katrina Hall Aug 13, 2008, 5:35pm EDT
How beautifully poetic, Mariana! You lulled me to sleep to the southern rainfall - that IS LA, isn't it? Just lovely............
Dorine H. Aug 13, 2008, 5:51pm EDT
You describe dozing on a stormy evening so poetically!
lynn a. Aug 13, 2008, 6:46pm EDT
Isn't it amazing when and what will prompt you to clean up. Loved the descriptions and the photo of the cemetery is awesome.
FRED R. Aug 13, 2008, 6:53pm EDT
I gave you a ten
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David Salyer Aug 13, 2008, 7:41pm EDT
Thanks for the invitation to your world!
Paidra Delayno Aug 13, 2008, 8:06pm EDT
It's always fun visiting other worlds, in this case yours. Thank you so much for sharing.
Katrina Hall Aug 13, 2008, 8:10pm EDT
I forgot the ten! Gather makes it so much harder these days to remember!
Marianne R. Aug 13, 2008, 8:47pm EDT
Nicely described and great photos!
You're in love with your surroundings.

I have a picture about that, that I'm going to publish.
Faith H. Aug 13, 2008, 9:51pm EDT
Oh, that looks like Magnolia Cemetery in Mobile, for sure. And isn't it hot and humid and rainy anyway, Mariana? The tree frogs are driving me crazy.
Wilma M. Aug 13, 2008, 10:03pm EDT
What a lovely description of your night. That cemetery picture is wonderful.
Patricia F. Aug 13, 2008, 10:18pm EDT
Haunting night, mariana...magical words!
Colonel Possum Aug 13, 2008, 10:41pm EDT
Mariana!

The ole Colonel nominates that second sentence for a Pulitzer Prize! Awesome imagery my dear.

Cheers,

Colonel Possum
Lisa Frost Aug 13, 2008, 11:07pm EDT
magical and wonderful!
Kimberly Ripley Aug 13, 2008, 11:27pm EDT
What a peacefully beautiful spot! Add the bullfrog's song and it sounds perfect!
Kerrell g. Aug 14, 2008, 12:20am EDT
At least it wasn't rap the frog was singing!
d g. Aug 14, 2008, 7:26am EDT
What a sweet southern voice this has! Wonderful cemetary. Images of bull frogs, eyelid hinges and white ribbons of rain fill my head. Creaking, croaking and thundering fun.
Mariana T. Aug 14, 2008, 9:14am EDT
bless all of you for your delightful comments - I should also add that this reminds me to clip the hedges today! Thank you d g. I like your imagery referring to mine!

Kerrell - you're funny but I do think it was rap - actually, loud rap!

Kimberly, good to see you again and thank you - I will give thanks for all my rainy days now!

Salud
Mariana T. Aug 14, 2008, 9:15am EDT
Thank you Lisa &
Colonel - you are always making me feel good about what comes off the top of my head! Salud
Mariana T. Aug 14, 2008, 9:18am EDT
Patricia, Wilma - thank yall - always good to see your lovely faces show up!

Faith - oh I can imagine - now you're in the Real South - I'm in Bayou land!!

Ina, thanks let me know when you publish it my ole buddy!

Thanks Marianne and I would love to see yours and will soon...for some reason I have to go through Mozilla to get on Gather and it is slow!!

more Later, Salud
Beryl Singleton Bissell Aug 14, 2008, 10:24am EDT
That bull frog elicited the music of the muses from within you Mariana. What a wonderful piece. You've enhanced the pleasure in my day which is actually one of brilliant sun and breezes.
Jennifer aka Jenn B. Aug 14, 2008, 5:15pm EDT
except for the bullfrogs it would appear you have quiet neighbors....
Sue * Aug 14, 2008, 9:44pm EDT
It is good to hear your "voice" and see that you are happy in your little space in the world. I hope you are enjoying every moment!
Monica H. Aug 15, 2008, 8:08am EDT
Thank you for a glimpse into your world.
Richard Frisbie Aug 15, 2008, 1:58pm EDT
Your descriptions of the sounds of the evening are lyrical. Thanks Mariana for the melodies.
ISABEL Y. Aug 15, 2008, 5:12pm EDT
Mariana, I love your writing as well as the great photos. Thank you for sharing your private space with us. Abrazos, Isabel
Krista P. Aug 15, 2008, 8:34pm EDT
You are one fine poet, sweet girl! Thank you for lifting my spirits with your vivid images!
Lots of rain and thunder here as well...I shall think of you! (No sweet bullfrog baritones, however...one of the things I miss now that I'm a city girl!) Be well and happy!
Roy ☯ Hilbinger Aug 16, 2008, 3:55pm EDT
What a wonderful 3-d surround sound depiction of night in the bayou world! Thank goodness you write about this, because it's the only way I'll ever experience that part of the world again. Went down there several times in my life, but the heat and humidity of the Gulf Coast turns me into a thoroughly miserable, easily irritated ogre with a constant sinus headache. So I admire from a distance. LOL!!!
necee t. Aug 16, 2008, 6:51pm EDT
oh Mariana... such a delightful story... i really enjoyed it... bullfrogs are cool...
Salud...


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Bent Lorentzen Aug 17, 2008, 7:04pm EDT
In high school, I went to visited my friend. Her parents lived by a forest near an old railway line. I had the week before seen a black and white drive in movie of aliens who took control over people's minds, and each time those aliens did their deed, it came with a screeching noise. As I walked the rural road to her home in a growing springtime dusk, a sudden screeching noise from the forest, exactly like in the movie erupted. I almost freaked, until I realized it was a whole group of frogs.

That's a weeping willow in the graveyard, isn't it? You really bring us into your special place with your words. It's like tasting something very precious
Michael Harvey Aug 17, 2008, 10:35pm EDT
Poetic.
Ellie !. Aug 18, 2008, 9:27pm EDT
A wonderful glimpse...and what is it with graveyaards? I feel at home there. Could be from regular visits with mom and gramma...could be I like keeping memories near. Thanks for the images.
Phyllis R. Aug 19, 2008, 2:20am EDT
How beautiful Mariana, -- sounds like 'heaven' to me also!! Rain is the best 'sleeping pill' in the world unless you have a big mouth bullfrog at your bedroom window like I had couple weeks ago!!!! LOL (I packed him up and sent him your way, -- glad he made it there 'safe and sound')!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ann Weaver Hart Aug 19, 2008, 6:01pm EDT
Cool!
Curt L. Aug 19, 2008, 8:32pm EDT
What a wonderful post! Thank you, Mariana!
Charles D. Aug 24, 2008, 5:30pm EDT
As always, your writing is alive, and this is another great momment that you shared. I love it.
better than my night...thats for sure
Marlene Blanco Sep 2, 2008, 12:22pm EDT
What a wonderful story.Being from the Bayou Teche myself, i love those swamp sounds, makes you sleep like a baby. As you know i have family and friends that love to come sleep on my back porch,screened in of course.Just so they can be lulled to sleep by the bullfrogs.

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