Francesca Forrest's Blog, page 177
October 13, 2012
fern flames, and the prettiest leaf
The ferns looked like little flames this morning:
And this morning I did a little raking, and this was the prettiest of the leaves I saw:
I liked the swoops of yellow on either side. Very elegant.
gaudior
, if it suits, feel free to use it!
And this morning I did a little raking, and this was the prettiest of the leaves I saw:
I liked the swoops of yellow on either side. Very elegant.
gaudior
, if it suits, feel free to use it!
Next Big Thing meme
I'm usually shy to talk about work in progress, but I've universally enjoyed reading others' answers to these questions--very much so. I was tagged by
cafenowhere
and implicitly tagged by
ann_leckie
and the other souls who invite anyone to join in, so here goes.
What is the title of your book?
I call it Pen Pal
Where did the idea for the book come from?
It came from combining two things: a dream about someone being trapped/held/serving in a temple above a live volcano, and an image of a group of...
cafenowhere
and implicitly tagged by
ann_leckie
and the other souls who invite anyone to join in, so here goes.What is the title of your book?
I call it Pen Pal
Where did the idea for the book come from?
It came from combining two things: a dream about someone being trapped/held/serving in a temple above a live volcano, and an image of a group of...
October 11, 2012
Khar Bii
I'm going to post about my work in progress, having enjoyed so many other people's posts, but first this!
A popular reality TV show in Senegal is Khar Bii (it means "this sheep" in Wolof):
It's an American Idol-style nationwide search for Senegal's most perfect specimen [of sheep]. Now in its fourth season, the show airs several times a week in the months leading up to Eid al-Adha, or Tabaski, as it's known here....
--"Senegal reality TV show features prettiest sheep" (AP newswire, via CBS news)
October 10, 2012
sparkles for breakfast
Elsewhere, platters are heaped up with sparkles. Break your fast!
...then, unmoor your ship, and sail
the mooring lines
...then, unmoor your ship, and sail
the mooring lines
October 9, 2012
The Night Crew
My local NPR station is having its fund drive, and it inspired this story
The Night Crew
“That’s 1-800 Let’s-end-this-now, folks,” intoned Indigo.
The night crew at WLHV Public Radio were getting a little punchy. It was the ninth day of the fund drive, and they were running short of enticements to bring in donations. Not that much could induce pledges after 8:00 PM, but the skeleton crew of volunteers were committed through 9:00—Daniel Stein, a veteran of twenty years of fund drives, whose high...
October 8, 2012
The Case of Tilly Mahan
Tilly Mahan collects angel skeletons, and she is happy to show them to anyone who asks. The problem--as religious authorities, newspaper reporters, and local children have discovered--is that Tilly's conception of angels and skeletons differs from most people's.
Her collection includes the following:
a plaster cast of a tire rut, taken from a not-yet-paved road in a stalled housing development
three charred fragments from a lightning-struck white pine
an old-fashioned brass key whose wards do, it...
Her collection includes the following:
a plaster cast of a tire rut, taken from a not-yet-paved road in a stalled housing development
three charred fragments from a lightning-struck white pine
an old-fashioned brass key whose wards do, it...
harvesting rice on the highway--literally
screenshots from the video at the NHK Newsweb site here. If you click through, you can see the video. Date is October 3, 2012.
Thirty meters up in the air, at the Ôhashi junction on the Tokyo-Meguro highway . . .
...rice has been growing since spring, and is ready for harvesting.
Fifth graders from neighborhood schools harvested it. For most, it was a brand-new experience:
stepping into the paddy
cutting with hand-held sickles
"The moment I cut the rice stalks felt great. I was really happy."
The fi...
Thirty meters up in the air, at the Ôhashi junction on the Tokyo-Meguro highway . . .
...rice has been growing since spring, and is ready for harvesting.
Fifth graders from neighborhood schools harvested it. For most, it was a brand-new experience:
stepping into the paddy
cutting with hand-held sickles
"The moment I cut the rice stalks felt great. I was really happy."
The fi...
October 6, 2012
A tangle of grapevine
In great festoons and low drapes, as one of the things supporting it is a huge broken red maple trunk and crown, which itself is now kept from crashing to the ground only by other grape vines.
poison ivy and Virginia creeper
The Virginia creeper is in crimson and scarlet, the poison ivy is in gold and green:
