As promised: mushrooms of the north woods! I took a truly alarming number of mushroom pictures, but I have picked

First, the classical mushroom, red with a white stem. No white spots on top, though.

( Scarlet mushroom. )

Oh LJ, I have so much to tell you!! For I have returned from my Canadian sojourn! In which sojourn I ate walleye and bass and a lake trout, the second lake trout that my dad caught in his life, for normally they hide in the watery depths. It was delicious ( Read more... )

First: I think it is pretty officially summertime now. The world is warm and sticky and the trees are fully leaved ( Read more... )

The leaves are at that perfect, perfect moment - depicted in my icon - when they are such a soft green that whenever the sun touches them, they glow gold. Like the Robert Frost poem, one of my favorites ( Read more... )

It's so lovely here, I'm sitting at the foot of my bed (it has a footboard as well as a headboard, very useful) so I can sit right by the open window and enjoy the gentle breeze. Of course, it is chilly enough that I need a blanket, but hey, we all make sacrifices.

I'm trying to write a Lizzie Bennet Diaries story about Mary supporting Lydia ( Read more... )

Didn't we just have five inches of snow on Monday? That happened, right, I didn't just imagine it ( Read more... )

We have robins! And daffodils! The recent snowpocalypse decapitated many of the daffodils, sad sad, but fortunately many of them had not bloomed yet and those are beginning to come along.

It is SPRING!

And also the end of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. I am sad it's over, but all good things must come to an end. And anyway...

( Lizzie Bennet Diaries spoilers )

What I Just Finished Reading

Mira Tweti's Of Parrots and People: The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating, and Often Catastrophic Collision Between Two Intelligent Species, which is a really good (if sometimes repetitive: how many miserable parrot sequences can one book hold?) book about parrots and why they shouldn't be kept as pets.

( There are two basic reasons: )

A link for you: The Most Amazing Up-Close Snail Photos You'll Ever SeeActually, probably the only up-close snail photos you'll ever see, because how often do people say "Hey snail, time for your close up ( Read more... )

I have a cold. I am at exactly that state of encoldedness when I am a little too woozy to fret about anything, but not so fuzzy-headed that I can't get anything done. I have been reading The Straight State and Uncle Tom's Cabin and Fanon, and staring contentedly at the steam off my teacup swirling in the sunlight. It is very sunny today. The sky is ( Read more... )