sovay: (Haruspex: Autumn War)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2025-04-13 10:32 pm

Was it me that broke my heart? Did I have a heart to break?

I opened the door to the stranger. I made charoses after all. This afternoon I went for a walk in the misting rain.



The fire hydrant was looking unusually dapper in the overcast.



I like the warp of the world in the driveway mirror.



I couldn't get a closer picture without intruding on this tree's yard, but it had magnificent lichen.



Buds unfazed by recent snowfall.



Whatever species of plant or process of decay produced this moth-effect, I admire it.



[personal profile] spatch pronounced this wintered-out rose hip the dormant phase of Audrey II.

I am feeling especially scraped thin and valueless, but [personal profile] selkie sent me a bonanza of tinned fish, so that for dinner I had coconut curry sardines and olive-and-pepper mackerel, and [personal profile] spatch brought me home a bag of intensely tropical Hi-Chews as a surprise dessert, all of which made a nice change-up from my traditional habits of eating treyf sandwiches on matzah. I read Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (2021) on the recommendation of N. and enjoyed very much how it functions like a Heinleinian hard sf novel where a level head and a slide rule can solve all problems only without the slide rule or the level head. Georgette Heyer's A Blunt Instrument (1938) could have done without its obligatory inclusion of antisemitism, but I appreciate the romantic pairing of its long-lashed, willowy, deprecatingly vague hero and its blunt-spoken, crop-haired, monocle-wearing heroine. She writes novels and he was last seen wandering around the Balkans. They should have a great time in a different mystery. [personal profile] sholio has written most excellent B5 fic. I like the idea of the Odyssey having a moment.