Move me to the sun

[sovay]

For obvious reasons there has been a lot of Sondheim in my head lately, so I was leaning on the back of the couch watching the dusk fall over the roofs of our street, singing "Take Me to the World," when I realized I had attracted a passerby, an older man in a denim jacket and a matching blue surgical mask carrying some home improvement paraphernalia. I finished singing and he nodded his head and moved on. It was nice.

My father came by earlier this afternoon and we walked around my neighborhood for an hour, checking on the developments of spring and the ever-mystifying progress of the GLX. We still had to duck a couple of maskless people, but they were in the minority. It's a Somerville ordinance now.



All the blossoms of its generation have fallen. The weeping cherry's going nowhere.



Audrey Tulip yearns hungrily.



My father asked if I could read the ivy-swarmed ghost sign. The ivy has been making sure that I can't.



The construction site that is just barely still the School Street Bridge.



The rotary drill rig just looked incredibly zoomorphic all of a sudden.



I loved the textures and colors.



Does anyone recognize this graffito? It looked like a heraldic phoenix to me.



The Japanese maple has no time for pastels.

Have some Yiddish plague songs.

Comments

[sovay]

An eagle holding arrows is very old American symbolism, perhaps acquired from the Scots. I haven't seen it rendered that way before.

Thanks! I read it originally as an eagle variant (which meant that I came home and tried to make sure it wasn't nativist-fascist graffiti), but I couldn't find anything with the crossed arrows rather than the arrows in one claw, olive branch in the other. The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania flag in your link looks much closer. The surrounding fires really do make me read it as a phoenix, though.

[rosefox]

I still feel like I've seen something like this before, but I'm not finding it. I turned up a lot of very questionable references to two crossed arrows meaning friendship in "Native American symbolism" (but no specific tribe, and no actual historical references) and that's about it.

EDIT: Your phoenix has an Italian cousin.

[sovay]

EDIT: Your phoenix has an Italian cousin.

This is becoming positively obscure!

[rosefox]

I'm probably putting way too much thought into what the artist just thought was a pretty picture!

[sovay]

I'm probably putting way too much thought into what the artist just thought was a pretty picture!

I'm enjoying it!