We have a visitor at the lair! So I’m a bit distracted at the moment. Also, I’ve been doing a little field recording of interesting sounds - rain, pottery breaking, glass breaking like gunshots, things like that. It’s fun!

I’m going out with Leannan Sidhe in a couple of weeks to do more serious field recordings, and I’m very new at all of this, so ( Read more... )

I haven’t posted a flower picture in a while. I like it when flowering plants grow together like this. Click to enlarge:


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It’s a nice rainy day after a day of big thunderstorms - so desperately needed - and I thought this was a particularly nice ladder fungus. Bigger at Flickr as usual.


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It’s been a while since I posted a flower picture, so here y’go. This was taken on a hillside above the Oregon coast.


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Anybody know what kind of orchid this is? Is it the keep wet always kind or the let dry out then get wet kind?


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Swamped with day job work; I mentioned some of that here. But I did find time to go see and write up an analysis of Maleficent, and lament how it should’ve been great, but wasn’t, quite. Near-misses are so painful sometimes, and this is one of those times. I lament the film it should’ve been.

I can’t be done with this kitchen restoration soon ( Read more... )

It sounds crazy to think that only now have I pulled the last orange sheet out of The Big Book, but I have. It’s for John Barbour. Two instruments, plus voices. It’s the joker in the album - spare, sparse, slow.

Not words you typically expect out of me, but that’s what it wants. I suppose “sparse” is by my standards, but still. Untimed / free tempo ( Read more... )

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Today’s flower picture is a semi-wild bit of shrubbery that’s on a property line between a house and a commercial property. No idea what it is, but it’s pretty now that it’s flowering. I’m kind of pleased with myself for getting a picture, given my terror of the bees which were all over the flowers.


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