images of america...

...whenever duchess had a moment, she would escape to sit on a bench overlooking the sea, and gazing outwards, her thoughts would turn inwards, as she contemplated on other times and climes. She was sitting on another bench overlooking another sea, this time an american beach. Suddenly she was back at school, or rather university, and sitting in the church of princeton university, with it's high vaulted ceilings, beautiful stained glass window and colourful college flags. Then she was walking the streets, alongside the gracefully green sony building. Then again, roaming the desert, looking for cacti, desert roses, succulents and the joshua trees, which immediately had her thinking of dylan. Also roaming around, was the cougar, with it's magnificently sculptured head, gentle colours and hypnotic gaze. Now she was flying, first with the seagulls in san fran, sweeping and swooping up, under and over the red goldengate bridge. Then she was soaring with eagles, high, high in the sky. Next, she was back at the lighthouse, only this time, it was in michigan. Now it was night, and she was in the air again, with the full moon gazing down upon her and cape cod, then desert moonscapes and the grand canyon. Finally, she landed at yosemite, with it's mighty grey stone-faced cragged cliffs...