Back to reality in the Berkshires
Art Star on Sep 08 2010 at 3:47 pm | Filed under: Blue Q The Office, Reviews
Ok. Back to work. It’s already Wed…or Thurs….. Whatev’s……Seriously, this ain’t no holiday no more. The days are getting shorter and the nights colder and all that crap. Say bye-bye to lobster rolls and outdoor concerts and mosquitoes and suntans and blueberry picking.
See ya later 3 day weekends.
Sayonara iced coffee and sweaty backs and coconut smelling Summer stuff.
Bye-bye shorts, flip flops, pools, oceans, lakes, sprinklers.
I don’t know where you live, but Blue Q is located in Western Massachusetts….the bucolic Berkshires. It is literally called “America’s Premiere Cultural Resort”.
Summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood.
Not 1, not 2, but a bunch of Summer Stock Theaters. (Barrington Stage, Chester Theater Company, Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkshire Theater Festival, Shakespeare and Company).
The world famous Summer dance epicenter, Jacob’s Pillow.
There’s Mount Greylock to climb.
Edith Warton’s house, The Mount, to visit.
Mass MoCA (Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival was there this year, yee haw!!!), The Clark, Norman Rockwell, the list goes on and on and on.
Yes, it’s gorgeous here. Sometimes I fear it’s enough to make one soft.
Soft and boring.
But then!
Then after a way too quick Autumn, we get 7 months of cold and wind and snow and ice.
7 months of no visitors, power outages, boots and mittens and hats and scarves. Phone lines down, feet of snow to wade through to get to your snowblower, your car, your dog….. cracks around the windows letting the frozen air in. You get the picture.
No wonder we make shit like this to keep up entertained.
Don’t forget us up here in the mid-Winter tundra. And yes, I know there’s still a few months till the dark mornings and depressing tasks of scraping ice off the windshields and frozen snot….but….you know me, I like to get the worst out of the way.
Hope you had a nice Labor Day. I just sat around all weekend crying about what’s to come.
