Francesca Forrest's Blog, page 30

postcard for a pine tree

I delivered** minoanmiss 's postcard to the pine tree whom I had to deprive of mail some weeks ago (described in this entry ).

It was close to sunset and the light was very long and golden.



( I took a video (it's 55 seconds) )

And here's a still photo



**I say "delivered" but I didn't actually leave it there; I just shared it with the pine tree the way you do with mail that's addressed to both of you. "We got a postcard from Minoan Miss! Let me show it to you and read it to you."

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tattoos for your teeth

At the dentist having my teeth scraped clean this morning, I was thinking about how staining material (like tea, which I drink a lot of) tends to linger in grooves, and I was wondering if the scraping doesn't just create such grooves... and then I got to thinking about making grooves deliberately. About etching designs. You could brush ink over them, and then wipe the ink away, like scrimshaw. I wondered if that's ever been done anywhere. A lazy-quick internet search didn't turn anything up.

And ...

the tigers in the road; drawers

This picture was lying in the road amid sharp fragments of glass.



It's just a print--here is one of its jagged edges, as if it were cut with scissors.



But you can see its appeal



I took it home. It's the year of the tiger, after all.

Here's something else from the day: labeled drawers:



You'll have to click through and then click magnify to see, but the drawers say "Stamps, Supplies, Janelle, Pending, Envelopes, *Italian flag w/soccer balls*, Deposit/WDL/Loan Slips, Lollipops."

You can tag yourself! ...

mossy mouth

I thought you all might enjoy this mossy mouth--it reminds me of ellenmillion 's tiny worlds



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more from Laloran Justisa

Laloran Justisa is up front about being didactic/educational: it covers issues like domestic abuse, alcoholism, presumption of innocence, nepotism, and so on. The most recent episode dealt in part with an upright young police officer with a secret in his past: his brothers were part of pro-Indonesia militias that formed after Timor-Leste declared in a 1999 referendum that it wanted to be independent of Indonesia.

( quickie historical review )

In an earlier episode, Vitór and the idealistic lawyer...

Postcard for a pine tree

Today I went out to mail a letter, walking through the woods, like I did the day I dropped a card by a pine tree. It was much warmer today, but the path through the woods was still covered with ice. If I had been wearing ice skates, I could have sped along it, my own tiny Rideau Canal.



On the way back from the post office, the clouds were thickening and the wind picked up, and I worried about trees falling on me. I never used to worry about this in the woods, but winds that bring down trees are m...

the secret of the pashaphone

One of the luxuries we have maintained is a landline. It's a great way of keeping spam off your cell phone, and it's always charged. Not only have we kept the landline, we've kept a corded phone, which means we don't need any wireless capability for it, which means it doesn't stop working if we lose wifi or power.

For the longest time we had a Panasonic corded phone, but eventually it failed. When Wakanomori went to get a replacement, the only thing that was available was a Panasonic knock-off:...

Oops--accidentally locked all my entries

Hello friends--I haven't deleted my journal or gone entirely private!

I was trying to batch edit some entries to make them private and somehow managed to make ALL of them private when I didn't mean to... and it apparently takes a little bit of time for DW to process the edit, so until it does, you won't be able to see anything, but I promise the entries will come back.

... Which feels very self-important to say--like I think my entries are All That and you're all waiting for them! But one friend d...

wind and snow

My attempt to influence the wind's snow sculpting didn't work super well, but I do have a few photos to share.

Here are a couple of before shots. One was of a mound of snow from shoveling...



You can see behind it a piece of wood and a lawn sign. Those were my other ventures. The piece of wood didn't do much of anything, but the lawn sign worked a little. Here's a close-up before shot of the lawn sign:



And here's an after shot, taken this morning, of the same sign.



If you click through and enlarge, ...

Spells for a funeral

A Twitter friend tweeted a post that said "Explaining a funeral to a 5 year old. He wants to know if the priest will 'do spells.'" She said in reply, "I would hope so!"

So I wrote this:

With this spell I do create
A chalice made of feathers
To hold your grief so softly
And uplift and honor it

and with *this* spell I do create
A lantern for the light
Of memories of the deceased
Carry it home with you
And may its shining comfort you


In other news, it's still snowing, and now the wind is whirling the snow...