Friday Five
1. Fall is definitely here. The days are still comfortable, but we need our winter jackets for Echo's late-night walk. The tangerine leaves against the clear blue sky are stunning.
2. I'm a spring person, so I'm looking forward to my tulip garden. The tulip and alium bulbs I ordered arrived a few days ago! Squirrels (probably) ate a lot of our red tulips and we had only about half of what we used to. Here's what I bought:
- 108 Red Dynasty Tulips - mid spring
- 12 Blumex Tulips ( a fringed Parrot Tulip with orange, purple, yellow and deep blue) - late spring
- 8 Monsella Tulips (yellow and red) - mid spring
- 8 Rai Tulips (a fringy purple Parrot Tulip) - mid to late spring
- 6 Allium Pinball Wizard (giant purple balls on tall stems. We used to have 12; they either died of old age or were on the Squirrel Diet too.) - late spring, early summer
3. Yesterday Computer Guru again fiddled with our computers and I can now, finally, see your pictures that you've uploaded with PhotoBucket. He changed some of the security settings. It's amazing how much that had slowed down the loading time of my Friends' page.
4. Mercury is out of retrograde! Yah! (No coincidence that it affected my computer...) I'm getting back into my writing groove, too. Double yah!
5. An inspring anecdote, yanked from The Writer's Book of Hope: Getting From Frustration to Publication by Ralph Keyes, pp. 68-69:
"The Catcher in the Rye was turned down by the publisher that had originally asked to see it (Harcourt Brace). After Little, Brown brought out J.D. Salinger's first novel, it went on to sell more than 60 million copies. This was despite the fact that the New Yorker declined to excerpt the future classic because the magazine's editors didn't consider it up to their standards. Earlier, they'd rejected the story on which The Catcher in the Rye was based. 'We feel that we don't know the central character well enough,' a New Yorker editor told Salinger's agent."
Hope you have a wonderful, inspiring weekend!
2. I'm a spring person, so I'm looking forward to my tulip garden. The tulip and alium bulbs I ordered arrived a few days ago! Squirrels (probably) ate a lot of our red tulips and we had only about half of what we used to. Here's what I bought:
- 108 Red Dynasty Tulips - mid spring
- 12 Blumex Tulips ( a fringed Parrot Tulip with orange, purple, yellow and deep blue) - late spring
- 8 Monsella Tulips (yellow and red) - mid spring
- 8 Rai Tulips (a fringy purple Parrot Tulip) - mid to late spring
- 6 Allium Pinball Wizard (giant purple balls on tall stems. We used to have 12; they either died of old age or were on the Squirrel Diet too.) - late spring, early summer
3. Yesterday Computer Guru again fiddled with our computers and I can now, finally, see your pictures that you've uploaded with PhotoBucket. He changed some of the security settings. It's amazing how much that had slowed down the loading time of my Friends' page.
4. Mercury is out of retrograde! Yah! (No coincidence that it affected my computer...) I'm getting back into my writing groove, too. Double yah!
5. An inspring anecdote, yanked from The Writer's Book of Hope: Getting From Frustration to Publication by Ralph Keyes, pp. 68-69:
"The Catcher in the Rye was turned down by the publisher that had originally asked to see it (Harcourt Brace). After Little, Brown brought out J.D. Salinger's first novel, it went on to sell more than 60 million copies. This was despite the fact that the New Yorker declined to excerpt the future classic because the magazine's editors didn't consider it up to their standards. Earlier, they'd rejected the story on which The Catcher in the Rye was based. 'We feel that we don't know the central character well enough,' a New Yorker editor told Salinger's agent."
Hope you have a wonderful, inspiring weekend!