Say your piece and sail away until the tide's in

[sovay]

I checked in on the magnolia. It seemed to be doing all right.



The shadow of the house we live in fell so nicely on the garage that isn't ours.



It would probably not have occurred to me to decorate my front yard with a wagon wheel, but I am delighted that it occurred to someone else. With the green leaves winding its spokes, it looks like a Tarot card.



As promised, the magnolia. The telephone pole stayed out of shot this time.

I could not get a picture of the two raptors we saw circling over the Tufts campus, and the weeping cherry discovered at a local intersection was so barely in bloom that it seemed unfair. I will return for it.

I am trying to figure out if our upstairs neighbors are watching a period drama or just listening to music, because first I heard "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" and then "Anji," both of which are extremely recognizable echoing through our ceiling.

Comments

[sovay]

Well yes, OK, any music belongs to its own period, I suppose - but that is totally not what I think of when you say 'period drama'. Now I feel very old (which admittedly I am).

"Historical" felt weirder! I didn't think much about it at first because it's the music I grew up listening to, then I remembered that our upstairs neighbors are two decades younger than I am and I wondered if it was the soundtrack to a show.

[shewhomust]

I'm fine with 'historical': I was a bit startled the first time I heard it used about (a contender for the best historical crime novel set in) the 1950s, but I've got used to it. And I expect I'll get used to a similar use of 'period', too.

Your reasoning is impeccable: you are yourself a generation too young for this music (I take it it's what your parents chose to listen to...?) - this is not a criticism.

[sovay]

Your reasoning is impeccable: you are yourself a generation too young for this music (I take it it's what your parents chose to listen to...?) - this is not a criticism.

The majority of my parents' record collection was the British and American folk revival, plus some outcroppings of classical and rock music with a decent percentage of musicals. I had a terrific grounding in Pentangle, Phil Ochs, and the Newport Folk Festival and missed most of my actual generational music for decades, which I continue not to feel bad about.

I think "historical" connotes "out of living memory" to me, while "period" does not, which may not be how anyone else thinks of these adjectives.

[shewhomust]

I think "historical" connotes "out of living memory" to me, while "period" does not, which may not be how anyone else thinks of these adjectives.

Interesting. Whereas for me, "historical" says something about the attitude wih which the period is approached, an awareness that that was then and things were different. "period" - and this may be tainted by a certain dniffiness about "period dramas" - is about appearances, elaborate costumes and candlelight.