Sit thee down and put them on

[sovay]

I have observed Labor Day by doing basically nothing at all, but selkie introduced me to the sea-flooded Paleolithic of Cosquer Cave with its seals and great auks and the hand-marks of children and the one unknown figure like a seal-headed man speared, which reminded me that some days ago I meant to link the Langton Herring burial with its amulet of a Roman coin and its copper alloy mirror whose bladed crescent pattern made me think at first sight of owls. The clouds tonight are too thick for the aurora and the last of the Perseids, but the light has done its knife-trick of paling suddenly to autumn, as if summer just blew off it like haze. I am sure the heat will be back, the way we have scrambled the seasons: I keep trying to look for the tells to hold on to, like the late green curl of the leaves; the last of the monarchs in milk-jade chrysalis, a record twenty-two this summer if all safely make it to flight. I could go for a small ice age if I could be assured of the megafauna.

Comments

[sholio]

I never heard of Cosquer Cave, and I love that kind of thing! Thank you for linking to it.

[sovay]

I never heard of Cosquer Cave, and I love that kind of thing! Thank you for linking to it.

You're welcome! It was discovered in my lifetime and I'd missed it! The photographs are astonishing: jellies on the branches of stalagmites, a herd of black-painted horses running abreast of the sea that ran in after them.

[foxmoth]

♥

[sovay]

♥

*hugs*

[selkie]

The jellyfish mirror looks like the Owl Service plates!

How’s that for a sentence. (Edit: I overrode it, but the twitch was too strong: I had typed vi azoy far a sentence and I think I need to own it.)

Stop telling the people about my cave. Miiiiiine. They’ll viiiiisit.

[sovay]

The jellyfish mirror looks like the Owl Service plates!

That was in fact it exactly. Frankly, Alan Garner is one of the people I would be least surprised to discover in a Paleolithic sea-cave.

Stop telling the people about my cave. Miiiiiine. They’ll viiiiisit.

Only if they can hold their breaths for thirty-seven meters! Or are Alan Garner.

[shewhomust]

Given the Orcadian habit of burying people with the bones of (presumably totemic) animals - the Tomb of the Eagles, the Tomb of the Otters - I was perfectly willing to believe in a Herring Burial. But apparently not...

[sovay]

Given the Orcadian habit of burying people with the bones of (presumably totemic) animals - the Tomb of the Eagles, the Tomb of the Otters - I was perfectly willing to believe in a Herring Burial. But apparently not...

I would have been charmed beyond words by a Tomb of the Herrings.

[regshoe]

We've had signs of autumn early this year, as a very dry summer has stressed out all the trees and caused them to start dropping their leaves early. But now the light has changed, and the nights and mornings are noticeably colder even if it's still pretty hot in the afternoons, and I am looking forward to more autumn! A small ice age sounds nice.

[sovay]

But now the light has changed, and the nights and mornings are noticeably colder even if it's still pretty hot in the afternoons, and I am looking forward to more autumn! A small ice age sounds nice.

Fingers crossed for your autumn! This year we actually avoided enough of a drought that the trees still have leaves on them and I am looking forward to them beginning to turn.

[minoanmiss]

I hope it was as restful as it ought to have been!

[sovay]

I hope it was as restful as it ought to have been!

Thank you! I am figuring it had to be good for me. I hope yours was something like the same?

[minoanmiss]

It was, more or less :)

[thisbluespirit]

Those cave paintings are fascinating!

*hugs for the rest*

[sovay]

Those cave paintings are fascinating!

And I'd never known about them! A sea-treasury of ice age art! It makes me so happy.

*hugs*