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Tea in The Folly with fresh raspberry jam I had a nice little streak going there, but somehow life intervened (see first five photos as well as the final image) and it's been more than a month since the last Germany-trip report . I say "life intervened" like there was something big, but there wasn't. I find that I cannot account for my time, which might maybe concern one a little, if one were the…
I've not been feeling particularly focused of late, but when do I ever? And while there's some obvious low-lying fruit I should be able to compose a post around--say, the Vermeers that were the reason we chose Dresden as our vacation destination--I'd like to have a little more brain capacity for such a thing. (Oh! The laughter at the suggestion that thought goes into these rambling posts of mine.)…
Even starlings seem exotic in a foreign land. Another distracted post about Germany: this time I intend to focus on birds. We'll see how that goes. The older I get (and I feel I'm getting older by the minute which, of course, is the case), the hazier my memory becomes. That's not so unusual, but it's particularly inconvenient when my camera stops working and I have to try to remember what birds…
Scott took a wee video of the most obliging bird we encountered while in Germany . The video should be live in about half an hour. In the meantime, a snap of what Merlin hears on the soundtrack
I've said that I'd post about the trip to Germany (Saxony, for the most part) that we took earlier this month so here I am, attempting a post. While we insisted that we had learned our lesson and were not going to try to do too much or spend all our time running from pillar to post, somehow we ended up spending a lot of time in transit and a lot of it felt like a blur, even at the time. My proper…
Lily of the valley with a hint of sweet William Peony, lilac, columbine, and spray of fennel frond Iris, geranium, rose, columbine, forget-me-not, "Ballard flower," and "that weird spiky purple thing"
This year's planning strategy It's Seattle Independent Bookstore Day Eve chez Aurora. We've been doing this for a decade or more now, and perhaps we've finally reached the Shipton and Tilman level, in which the planning fits tidily on the back of an envelope. There are now thirty-three bookstores participating in what is laughingly called the Seattle Independent Bookstore Challenge. In reality,…
Cut-paper art done by a staff member at SPL's Southwest Branch If the Imaginary Reader knows the most basic essentials about my character, then they know that I can never resist a passport project that involves traveling around by bike getting stamps. I was, therefore, the ideal market for Seattle Public Libraries ' passport and postcard promotion in which one could fill a library passport with…
Selection of books mentioned in this post (plus an aging bouquet) The thing is, I've not been inclined to post so much for considerably more than a minute, even in its most current, slangy sense. It all seems sort of pointless, you know? What sort of posts would the average German woman be writing in 1939, you know? As it happens, I can answer that, because I bought On The Other Side: Letters To…
Somewhat unrelated snap of some bookstore day purchases to add some visual interest It's rare that I actually get around to doing a recap of my reading of the previous year, but our NYE plans were damned quiet this year so I started in on the following while waiting for midnight to strike. It was a total of 83 books read with a fair number of re-reads and only a small handful of non-fiction. A…
