My street has lost its cherry trees! Not the weeping cherry, but the pair of regular cherries in the next yard over that I documented so joyously last spring and the spring before. I have no idea what happened. The ground is blackened and broken and bare; all the little undergrowth that used to cluster around the lichen-saddled trunks and branches is gone. There was a dispirited clump of something that might be the daffodils when it's not climate-raddled late winter and some weeds left behind chain-link, like tame brownfields. I loved those trees. I had been looking forward to their blossoms this spring. It had become a ritual and something that made me feel better about the world. I will still visit their weeping neighbor, but damn. If it had to do with property flipping, may all their investments fail.
I have been out of commission for most of this week thanks to pain and other stressors, so have some links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thisbluespirit: AI-generated Valentine's cards. "Boop-rah, sexy fried heart!"
2. Courtesy ofselkie: the ping-pong ball coronet. I had no idea that defunct coronets were a thing.
3. Courtesy ofminoanmiss: lovers reunited in 1944, now with accurate and heart-touching translation. "Il ne savait même plus son vrai nom tant il en avait changé. C'est celui de droite qui le lui a rendu."
4. Courtesy ofa_reasonable_man: "It was the most successful Jewish ad campaign of all time — but who was the model?" A deep dive into Jewish advertising, Native identity, and now I want a deli sandwich on rye.
5. Courtesy of a friend who isn't on DW: a truly majestic cabbage.
It will not be a full twenty-four hours for reasons of unavoidable capitalism, butspatch and I are in the process of programming ourselves this weekend's Black Cat 'Thon 2022. We have bailed on numerous portions of the official 'Thon in the past. It should be a good time.
I have been out of commission for most of this week thanks to pain and other stressors, so have some links.
1. Courtesy of
thisbluespirit: AI-generated Valentine's cards. "Boop-rah, sexy fried heart!"2. Courtesy of
selkie: the ping-pong ball coronet. I had no idea that defunct coronets were a thing.3. Courtesy of
minoanmiss: lovers reunited in 1944, now with accurate and heart-touching translation. "Il ne savait même plus son vrai nom tant il en avait changé. C'est celui de droite qui le lui a rendu."4. Courtesy of
a_reasonable_man: "It was the most successful Jewish ad campaign of all time — but who was the model?" A deep dive into Jewish advertising, Native identity, and now I want a deli sandwich on rye.5. Courtesy of a friend who isn't on DW: a truly majestic cabbage.
It will not be a full twenty-four hours for reasons of unavoidable capitalism, but
spatch and I are in the process of programming ourselves this weekend's Black Cat 'Thon 2022. We have bailed on numerous portions of the official 'Thon in the past. It should be a good time.
