Poem for Wednesday and Evergreen Arboretum

Ice Cream Stop
By Shel Silverstein

The circus train made an ice cream stop
At the fifty-two-flavor ice cream stand.
The animals all got off the train
And walked right up to the ice cream man.
“I’ll take Vanilla,” yelled the gorilla.
“I’ll take Chocolate,” shouted the ocelot.
“I’ll take the Strawberry,” chirped the canary.
“Rocky Road,” croaked the toad.
“Lemon and Lime,” growled the lion.
Said the ice cream man, “‘Til I see a dime.
You’ll get no ice cream of mine.”
Then the animals snarled and screeched and growled
And whinnied and whimpered and hooted and howled
And gobbled up the whole ice cream stand,
All fifty-two flavors
(Fifty-three with Ice Cream Man).

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Wednesday was a gorgeous warm summer day, and our building had coupons for free ice cream from the ice cream truck, so after a run to Safeway and a walk to the beach -- where we discovered that there's a store in the corner of the bathhouse that sells Nathan's hot dogs in the summer -- we got our ice cream and went to see the ducks and geese behind our apartment. 

We watched the second episodes of both Secret Invasion (still making me mad about the big thing last week, and clunkily written; I'm here for Jackson and Colman but I think Rhodey is a Skrull, the original better not be dead) and Strange New Worlds (great, they gave the big Kirk speech to the awesome Neera). Some photos from Evergreen Arboretum and Gardens in Everett last weekend: