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2023-03-22

In honor of #WorldPoetryDay, here's a photo of my bicycle at Stevenson House in downtown #Monterey, taken on a sunny day in February 2010.

Today one of my brothers was lamenting #DaylightSavingsTime, and I automatically responded by reciting to him a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Bed in Summer." (An excerpt: "In winter when the moon is bright, I dress by yellow candlelight. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day.")

Grateful to our mom for reading "A Child's Garden of Verses" and other poetry to us. I treasure the old book she held when she first introduced us to Stevenson— "The Child's World: Volume 1, Stories of Childhood" (Chicago: The Child's World, Inc, 1954)—which included many other favorite poets too, e.g., Christina Georgina Rossetti and Rose Fyleman.

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My blue Giant Cypress bicycle is parked just outside the open wooden doorway/gate that accesses the gardens of Stevenson House in downtown Monterey. Most prominent in the photo are the historic property's predominately beige adobe walls with brown tile roof. Beyond the open gate, the walkway is dirt, and in the distance, some of the garden's trees and potted plants are visible.

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