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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2020-12-27 09:43 pm

Some have learned the way to turn themselves to trees

It is amazing how much the dominant note on returning from any masked walk in the cold is "Oh, thank God, now I can blow my nose." Yesterday we left the house late enough in the day that [personal profile] spatch got some incredible dusk-lit pictures of the part-demolished high school and it was too cold for me to take my hands out of my pockets without a better grade of gloves. This afternoon we made a point of bolting from the house before sunset hit. I took a bunch of photos, but almost none of them came out as I wanted, more than documentary. Rob took a carefully, quickly unmasked photo of me. I did not at that time think to blow my nose.



We were right that this building was not scheduled to survive the renovations. Now its windows really open into sky.



Around the side of an apartment block on Highland Avenue. I loved the embers of the brick in the setting sun.



At the edge of the library. There was a rather nice daymoon just out of shot.

Everything else I had planned for the day was crashed by pain, but the mail brought me a substantial hardcover of The Book of Dragons (ed. Jonathan Strahan, 2020) courtesy of [personal profile] selkie, so I should be fine on the couch for a while.
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[personal profile] moon_custafer 2020-12-28 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, what is that eldritch silver lapel pin?
davidgillon: A pair of crutches, hanging from coat hooks, reflected in a mirror (Default)

[personal profile] davidgillon 2020-12-28 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I was wondering that myself.
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[personal profile] davidgillon 2020-12-28 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It's so you!
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[personal profile] selkie 2020-12-28 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I was going to say this, but you get such wonderful comments every time that I thought they should all go to you. It must have been brand new when I saw it and clearly it is now, in addition to all its original intent, apotropaic guard against scallop woods.