It's a death-defying act you won't believe

[sovay]

I had to mask up to drop something off for the upstairs neighbors, so I took my camera and went to check on the neighborhood index of flowering trees.



The cherry blossoms have achieved liftoff!



Also backlighting.



Ready for their close-up.



I had previously believed this tree to be another, earlier-flowering cherry, but a bandanna-masked passerby spotted me with my camera and cheerfully told me to check out "the beautiful almond tree at the end of the street." So now I have no idea. It's pink.



Shadow tree.



Shadow ladder and reflection tree.



This magnolia just seemed so enthusiastic.



And I haven't a clue, but it was extravagantly green.

Today was the first day I've really seen a majority of people wearing masks on the streets—some handmade, some medical, some kerchiefs and scarves. Boston has instituted a curfew and the federal government is just straight-up trying to kill us. At the moment cases are predicted to peak over the week of Passover. I hope the holiday holds true to its name.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

They're lovely! There aren't any blossom trees near where I am, so it's nice to share in yours (whatever kind they are).

(This is the Almond Blossom fairy, and Cecily M Barker was always botanically correct, so you could compare notes... if it wasn't a tiny icon pic. XD)

[sovay]

They're lovely! There aren't any blossom trees near where I am, so it's nice to share in yours (whatever kind they are).

Thank you! I am glad to share. It seems like a useful thing to be doing now.

(This is the Almond Blossom fairy, and Cecily M Barker was always botanically correct, so you could compare notes... if it wasn't a tiny icon pic. XD)

I could compare notes if my copy of Flower Fairies of the Seasons wasn't in storage! All I seem to have here is The Lord of the Rushie River, which has the Traveller's Joy song, but not the fairy. [edit] "But the Almond is the first!" Hm.

[thisbluespirit]

Could be! :)

Btw, as we were speaking of the difficulty of finding info on character actors in general and Mr Collings in particular, liadt just found an interview with him re. Midnight is a Place and it contains more personal information on him than I'd ever had before:

https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/liadtbunny/48804883/557680/557680_900.jpg
https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/liadtbunny/48804883/558072/558072_900.jpg

(It does contain mention of child death, though, if that would be too upsetting.)

[sovay]

Btw, as we were speaking of the difficulty of finding info on character actors in general and Mr Collings in particular, liadtbunny just found an interview with him re. Midnight is a Place and it contains more personal information on him than I'd ever had before

Oh, thank you! I will definitely read that. I still want to see Midnight Is a Place for him, however the rest of it turned out.

(It does contain mention of child death, though, if that would be too upsetting.)

I appreciate the warning. I saw in his obituary that two of his children had predeceased him, so I figured something had happened.