With life and so much loss, time has weighted us

[sovay]

I had a rough night and ran around less during the day than previously, but I did take a couple of pictures in the cold late afternoon.



Breaking open, the lilac filled with light.



The redbud was flowering into shadow.



I found a good wall.

Not having dreamed memorably for months, I was amused that last night I was apparently trying to compose a journal post describing a pre-dawn view of the river which presented itself as the Charles, although in waking life it is not crossed with any rope bridges that I know about, nor have I ever seen a market running down its banks to the water. Then I was distracted by discovering the existence of living root bridges. I had never seen anything like them in a non-secondary world. I love that they are not a historical technology.

Comments

rope bridge

[lauradi7dw]

But *why* is there not a rope bridge over the Charles? Now that you've invented it, it seems to me that the obvious MIT hack (similar but very not similar to the time there was a thing on/under the field at the Harvard Yale game)*
would be to put a rope bridge next to the Weeks foot bridge. The timing should be right before the Head of the Charles, in which MIT and Harvard (and Yale) compete. Engineers should be able to figure this out, right?

* https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/25276347/best-college-football-prank-harvard-yale-mit-balloon

[davidgillon]

I found a good wall.

My brain insists that I'm looking past you at tree-tops down in a valley (with white blossom caught on a nearby branch), rather than lichen-covered stone right next to you. That's a very good wall.

Re: rope bridge

[sovay]

a rope bridge next to the Weeks foot bridge. The timing should be right before the Head of the Charles, in which MIT and Harvard (and Yale) compete. Engineers should be able to figure this out, right?

It's MIT! I can only hope so! I like this plan.

[sovay]

My brain insists that I'm looking past you at tree-tops down in a valley (with white blossom caught on a nearby branch), rather than lichen-covered stone right next to you. That's a very good wall.

I love your valley.

[sabotabby]

Still no lilacs here, but you seem to be a few weeks ahead of me in terms of things blooming.

I had no idea that living root bridges were a thing!

[gwynnega]

Beautiful lilac!

[sovay]

Still no lilacs here, but you seem to be a few weeks ahead of me in terms of things blooming.

We are approaching the peak of the season; tomorrow is the Arboretum's Lilac Sunday. I have no idea if the one-degree difference in latitude accounts for it or if it's the climate being shaken like a bottle of Mentos and Diet Coke, but it means I can look forward to your lilacs.

I had no idea that living root bridges were a thing!

I hope they get their UNESCO status. Again, I understand their relevance to sustainable infrastructure, but also they are just so cool.

[sovay]

Beautiful lilac!

It's just doing the clouds-of-blossom thing.

[pameladean]

I can see it too now! Wow.

The lilac photo is exquisite.

P.

[sovay]

The lilac photo is exquisite.

Thank you!

There are always doors in the walls.