yawn

I keep waking up too early; when it's not the extremely noisy children upstairs, it's sunlight finding a gap in the curtain and landing on my pillow at 6:30 in the morning. (Putting something over my eyes once I've wakened doesn't help much.)

I had a fine day out at the Jardin Botanique with rysmiel yesterday: many flowers in bloom, some plants--including taro and coleus--with impressive purple leaves, and ponds full of thin blue-bodied dragonflies; I saw three different pairs of the dragonflies mating. We skipped the greenhouses, because we wanted to stay outdoors and there's plenty to see this time of year without going in. I was glad to look at the alpine garden when there was lots in bloom there and elsewhere; I've been there in early Spring when it was the only place outside the greenhouses with flowers.

yawn

I keep waking up too early; when it's not the extremely noisy children upstairs, it's sunlight finding a gap in the curtain and landing on my pillow at 6:30 in the morning. (Putting something over my eyes once I've wakened doesn't help much.)

I had a fine day out at the Jardin Botanique with rysmiel yesterday: many flowers in bloom, some plants--including taro and coleus--with impressive purple leaves, and ponds full of thin blue-bodied dragonflies; I saw three different pairs of the dragonflies mating. We skipped the greenhouses, because we wanted to stay outdoors and there's plenty to see this time of year without going in. I was glad to look at the alpine garden when there was lots in bloom there and elsewhere; I've been there in early Spring when it was the only place outside the greenhouses with flowers.

"Fifty Book Challenge"

Well, that's fifty. I was at forty-two when I left New York Tuesday. The recent eight are the three Naomi Novik Temeraire books (I liked the first best, they're fun, it's not great art, and some sort of review later is possible but not guaranteed), four Rex Stout Nero Wolfe books, and a Theodore Sturgeon collection.

I read more here, partly because Rysmiel and papersky have lots of interesting books I haven't read, and partly, I think, because I spend much less time online; I'm not checking out Websites I normally would, and I'm not doing IM.

"Fifty Book Challenge"

Well, that's fifty. I was at forty-two when I left New York Tuesday. The recent eight are the three Naomi Novik Temeraire books (I liked the first best, they're fun, it's not great art, and some sort of review later is possible but not guaranteed), four Rex Stout Nero Wolfe books, and a Theodore Sturgeon collection.

I read more here, partly because Rysmiel and papersky have lots of interesting books I haven't read, and partly, I think, because I spend much less time online; I'm not checking out Websites I normally would, and I'm not doing IM.