It appears self’s books have been available on kindle for a few years. She never knew!
Two of the four:
The cover of The Lost Language is a detail of a painting by the late, great Filipino artist Santiago Bose.
Category: Filipino Writers
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Thanks to Journeys with Jonbo for hosting the Cellpic Sunday challenge.
A few days ago, self met a friend for lunch at Mademoiselle Colette, a local patisserie. They offer salads and soup of the day, plus croissants and brioches. Not to mention the most delicious cakes!
Love the little Christmas trees. She just had to take a picture.
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Self was at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in November. It was cold. First thing every morning, she’d open the windows of her room and marvel at the view.
Posting for Travel with Intent’s Six Word Saturday.
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When self says “lake,” there’s only one lake she can be referring to: that’s right, it’s Lake Annaghmakerrig, in Co. Monaghan, Ireland, where she spent the second half of November while she did furious revision on a novel-in-progress. (You don’t see the lake in this picture; believe me, it is there, just on the other side of that tree)
Posting for Alive & Trekking’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
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Is there anything as singularly impressive and affecting to the imagination as when, in a perfectly calm tropical sea, under a vertical sun, one is able to look down through a depth of thousands of fathoms of clear water and see on the ocean bottom glimpses of the City and all its strange and wonderful objects?
— “Residents of the Deep” by Marianne VillanuevaRead the whole story here.
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Much thanks to Life of B for hosting Walking Squares!
It is cold. Today it is too cold (and blustery) to walk. These pictures of Lake Annaghmakerrig are from two days ago.
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There are some gorgeous walks that people have shared for Life of B’s Walking Squares challenge, this month.
Happy that I’m in Ireland and can document the winter phase of Lake Annaghmakerrig.
Took these pictures with my laptop — yes, really. I just carried it around, open, screen pointed at the lake. I wake veeeery early to write, and sometimes I end up walking to stretch my back. But I find I’ve let my camera or cell behind. I am still clutching my laptop, though. So, why not.
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The painters are working on self’s room, so she’s been hiding out in the library. She dozed off in a deep, plush armchair. She’s never dozed off in an armchair before! She must have been deeply asleep, because she had a dream.
Then she decided to watch the first episode of the new season of The Crown. Elizabeth Debecki is a dead ringer for Diana. And holy hell, did Prince Charles ever get a glow-up: this season, he’s played by Dominic West. Dominic West. The two little boys who play William and Harry are very cute (and look just like young William and Harry).
And now to Walking Squares!
She set off for the lake (her favorite destination). It was getting dark, there was nothing to steady her hand, so her pictures came out somewhat blurry.
On the walk back, she decided to take pictures of the studios and the Main House. She leaned on a gate, which made her efforts sharper.
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This place, with the Main House that directly faces Lake Annaghmakerrig, is magical.
Tonight, wanting to post something for Walking Squares, self did a circuit of the main building.
It was cold, but not raining. Self had a long coat and a cashmere hat. The only thing she neglected to bring from California were gloves.
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Kanlaon 