It smelled like adventure itself had been harvested in the wild, distilled to a fine wine, and splashed across each page.
— p. 23, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Loving the novel so far!
Sentence of the Day: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
May 3, 2021 at 11:36 pm (Books, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: COVID Reading, fantasy, Mondays, novel, reading lists, spring
Hello, Beautiful! Flower of the Day (FOTD), May 3
May 3, 2021 at 4:54 pm (Flowers, Links, postaday)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, Mondays, spring
Self’s flower of the day is her Fourth of July. Took this picture a few minutes ago, for Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge.
Introducing Meas Gilbryn
April 27, 2021 at 12:56 am (Books)
Tags: COVID Reading, fantasy, Mondays, novel, reading lists
Hanging from the straps were knives, small crossbows and a twisting shining jingling assortment of good-luck trinkets that spoke of a lifetime of service and violence. Around her shoulders hung a precious feathered cloak, and where the fishskin scattered the sunlight the feather cloak hoarded it, twinkling and sparkling, passing motes of light from plume to plume so each and every colour shone and shouted out its hue.
I am going to die, he thought.
— p. 6, The Bone Ships
Love adventure, love fantasy.
A Photo a Week Challenge: Celebration, COVID-Style
April 26, 2021 at 9:43 pm (Links, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: COVID watching, elections, happiness, Joe Biden, memories, Mondays, politics, US history
From Nancy Merrill, host of the Photo a Week Challenge:
Last year, when Covid-19 first struck the United States, my friend’s daughter got married. It wasn’t the wedding she had started planning when she got engaged in November, but it was a beautiful celebration of love and joy. I was one of twenty-five people who were able to attend the sweet backyard ceremony. It was fun to not only take photos but to help with the decorations and food and just overall doing what we could to make the bride and groom happy.
IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO OR TWO (OR THREE…) OF HOW YOU HAVE CELEBRATED DURING THE PANDEMIC.
Along with the rest of America, self watched the inauguration of #46, Joseph R. Biden, on live TV.
The marchers (except for one) are wearing masks! Funny, she never stopped to think about that until she started looking at pictures for this week’s Photo a Week Challenge.
Also a first: that she watched the events unfold on Fox News!
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
In the Restless Night
April 26, 2021 at 8:44 pm (Books, Explorers)
Tags: COVID Reading, discoveries, fantasy, Mondays, novel, reading lists, spring
“. . . his sleep had been troubled by thoughts of his father and thoughts of another life, not a better one, not an easier one, but a sober one, one without shame. One in which he did not feel the pull of the Sea Hag’s slimy hands trying to drag him down to his end. One of long days at the wing of a flukeboat, singing of the sea and pulling on the ropes as his father glowed with pride at how well his little fisher boy worked the winds. Of long days before his father’s strong and powerful body was broken as easily as a thin varisk vine, ground to meat between the side of his boat and the pitiless hull of a boneship.”
— pp. 4 – 5, The Bone Ships, by R. J. Barker
Posting Early Again! April 20 BRIGHT SQUARES
April 20, 2021 at 4:07 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, Mondays, museums, Sacramento, spring
Tomorrow morning, early, self is headed to the de Young to see the Frida Kahlo exhibit. Finally, finally.
Because she’ll probably be out the whole day, she’s posting tomorrow’s Bright Square early. Thank you to Becky at The Life of B for hosting this challenge!
More pictures from the Crocker Museum in Sacramento! The huge painting is Landscape with an Archer, by David Ligare (American, born 1945)
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
Friday Fun Challenge: Colours
April 19, 2021 at 9:43 pm (destinations, Holidays, Links, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: London, Mondays, Sacramento
The host of the Friday Fun Challenge is aroused. Her theme for the week is COLOURS.
Self’s gallery are mostly reds, and one blue:
- 2 from London (a Beltane van and a close-up of the London Eye, May 2019)
- 2 from Sacramento (the camera and the street sign)
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
A Photo-a-Week Challenge: BACKLIT
April 13, 2021 at 4:36 am (Links, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: A Photo a Week, Home, Mondays
Self loves backlit photos!
The host for the Photo-a-Week Challenge is Nancy Merrill.
Self took the photo below in September 2020.
Watching birds at her feeder is a source of constant delight. She rarely manages to capture birds in flight as her camera is a plain Nikon CoolPix and, moreover, she has very shaky fingers. So the fact that she was able to capture this is nothing short of miraculous.
April 12 BRIGHT SQUARES
April 12, 2021 at 8:36 pm (Flowers, Links, Lists, postaday)
Tags: flower photography, Garden, Mondays, spring
The life of B‘s Bright Squares Challenge runs through the month of April. Fun!
Today, self is back to photographing flowers. She had so many things she could have posted today, but she decided to leave some pictures for a future post.
Pictured:
- clematis montana rubens (one very long strand trailing down, almost completely covered by delicate pink flowers)
- clematis montana “white surprise” (self’s newest clematis)
- cistus (rock rose)
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
Back to the Hotel George V, Paris, Room 815
April 5, 2021 at 11:31 pm (Books, Food and Drink, Places, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: COVID Reading, humor, Mondays, mysteries, Paris
Inspector Armand Gamache discourages his protégé Jean-Guy Beauvoir (married to Gamache’s daughter, and all conveniently in Paris at the time the events in the book unfold, que c’est magnifique!) from ordering a club sandwich.
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