Summer Oncoming

[bunn]

The bluebells are fading now, but this weekend I caught these just still scented in the sunlight at Grenofen on the edge of Dartmoor, on a short walk with my mother.  It was rather warm, and we retired to the cafe at the top of the lane for smoothies and ice cream.  The cafe used to be a pub, but there's more market now for selling tea and cakes to

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[heartofoshun]

Wow! This is your day for fabulous photos! I adore the one with the seagull. They never cease to fascinate me--I see them all the time and I wonder if they are lost! Our neighborhood is probably about as far from the water as one can get in this city.

These stories look awesome! Cannot read them instantly, so I am going to bookmark them all right now.

[bunn]

I had hoped to catch a leaping fish, but I would have had to be lucky with the timing - I hadn't even noticed the seagull!

[pixel39]

Seagulls, at least in the US, are basically rats with wings--they'll go anywhere they're likely to find food, and if there's any sort of water, so much the better. It doesn't seem to matter to them whether it's salt or fresh. I've seen shopping malls that are miles from any body of water that have bunches of seagulls because of the trash lying about.

That said, all species of gull are protected both in the UK and in the US. This means that when you cook them in mid-air using the tight-beam microwave radar, the harbormaster in San Diego gets VERY cross with you. Or so my father says...

[lindahoyland]

Such beautiful scenery!

[bunn]

It's a fabulous time of year.

[r_blackcat]

Your photo are, as always, beautiful; but the first one has the feeling of something beleriandic, maybe some skirts of Doriath. It's absolutely fairy-talish! I've borrowed it for my wallpaper, I hope you don't mind.
Er... I don't suppose you publish your stories somewhere besides AO3? It started to ask for agreetment to some terms - several pages of difficult English text I have no time and brain to read right now... :(

[ylla]

If it's the same thing I'm seeing, it's just the GDPR consent - you accept that if you post works or comments or profile info publicly, everyone will be able to see them, and so you should be careful about what personal info you share.

I'm not saying you shouldn't read it, but it's not something sinister that AO3 have done (it may or may not be something sinister that the EU have done, but that's not really AO3's fault!)

[r_blackcat]

Well, if it's only about that... thanks for telling me. I was somehow reluctant to state that I've read smth when I actually have not, even if most likely nothing scary will come out of it.

[bunn]

the lighting was particularly wonderful that day. There were may-trees in flower as well, but I couldn't get the bluebells and the may-blossom into one photo...

In theory, I try to put my Tolkien writing on Ao3, fanfiction.net and Silmarillion Writer's Guild, but in practice, Ao3 is the easiest of the three to use and that's where most of the readers are and I'm lazy. But I'm pretty sure the agreement thing is the standard GDPR waffle that you'll find on every website and doesn't imply anything much!

Maybe one day I'll put it all on a stand-alone site...

[ningloreth]

It's very hard to believe that there's a café selling ice cream and smoothies just 'at the top of the lane' from the first picture. You must live in one of the best places in the world! (If there was a second hand bookshop next to the café, there would be no contest!)

[bunn]

Well, I don't tend to photograph or report on the grotty bits! But yes, that particular walk is brilliant. Alas, no bookshop though there is one in town not very far away!

[pixel39]

We had about a week of spring and then it launched quite firmly into summer. The lilacs are done blooming, my rosa rugosa alba has started blooming, we've had thunderstorms every few days, and it is Decidedly Extremely Warm And Also Humid. Whee.