"Fill the days at any cost."

[greygirlbeast]

Yesterday we finally got the sort of snow that I actually associate with winter in Providence. Wet, sticky, pretty. If we must have fucking snow, at least let it be easy on the eyes. I measured about 4.5". Right now the sun is out, but more snow is forecast for tonight. Currently, it's 32˚F out there, but supposedly it feels like 43˚F

Comments

[mataar]

Gorgeous photos! Especially like the one of you heading away from the camera into the snow, and the ones at night. Thanks for sharing them!

[greygirlbeast]

You're welcome.

that's a lot of talk

[whiskeychick]

More than 111 interviews? Oi. I could not abide phone interviews. Via email would be alright, but yes, time sink. However, writers today have to do so much promotion to just stay afloat.....

I really like the picture of you sitting on the bench. It's like you're witnessing something that keeps you frozen in time (no pun intended).

Re: that's a lot of talk

[greygirlbeast]

I could not abide phone interviews.

In 19 years, I've only given three or four of them. I usually refuse straight off.

However, writers today have to do so much promotion to just stay afloat.....

The thing is, unless the interview is with a high-profile website or magazine, it's not time/cost effective,

[greygirlbeast]

What kind of tree is that?

I actually do not know.

[ashlyme]

They could be hawthorns, from the fruit, but it's very late for haws.

[sovay]

I went out twice yesterday, which is unusual.

I love the second and third photos especially; whoever said on Facebook that you looked like a frame from Tarkovsky was right. I'm also very fond of the second-to-last, with the two colors of light illuminating the branch-caverns of snow. It does have attractiveness in its favor.

[greygirlbeast]

whoever said on Facebook that you looked like a frame from Tarkovsky was right.

That made me smile.

[ashlyme]

Thank you for the pictures. They're all wonderful, but I love the shadow-lattice in the last one. You look good in a porkpie hat, too.

[greygirlbeast]

It's actually not a porkpie. I'm not sure what it's called, though I've seen the word "alpine" associated with this hat.

[setsuled]

I'm not sure what it's called, though I've seen the word "alpine" associated with this hat.

There seems to be some dispute about it. The guy at my hat shop told me that anything with that particular pinch at the front is a fedora, regardless of brim size. But I was approached by a hatter a couple years ago who told me that with the short brim it becomes a trilby. At that time, as far as I knew "trilby" was just the word used in Britain for the fedora but the hatter was quite insistent the small brim made it a trilby. Since then I've seen a lot of people being vociferous on this distinction.