Winter Solstice '09
Dec. 21st, 2009 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greygirlbeastAnd, already, it is Solstice, and finally the days will begin to grow longer again.
Yesterday, I did not go out and marvel at the snow. I sat here and wrote, 1,609 words, and early in the evening I managed to finish "The Jetsam of Disremembered Mechanics." It may be a good story. I honestly could not tell you. It needs a bit of polishing, and then I'll send it off to the anthology's editor (I'll announce the book a bit later). And then I've got to get to work on Sirenia Digest #49. Though, truthfully, the last thing I want to be doing is writing.
I didn't leave the House yesterday, so I've not been out in the snow. I don't think it's going anywhere, not any time soon. The temperatures here in Providence will be below freezing until the weekend, I think. Spooky went out briefly yesterday, just a short walk, and took some photos (behind the cut, below).
Last night, we watched David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), which I somehow missed last year. I am pleased to see that it won three Oscars, as I enjoyed it a great deal. Fincher remains one of my favorite directors.
And I don't really think there's much else to say about yesterday. It was mostly writing and a movie and looking at the snow through windows:
View from one of our front parlor windows, to the east. This is essentially the same view as the photo from Saturday night (in yesterday's entry), only by daylight and with the ugly, annoying-ass inflatable Santa.
Our driveway. View to the south.
The eastern edge of the Dexter Training Grounds, view to the east.
A mailbox and telephone pole that Spooky found somewhere.
And I got this shot of an amazing sunset, though it's a pretty lousy photo. It does not begin to convey what I saw. The snow on the street was washed reddish pink. View to the southwest.
All photographs Copyright © 2009 by Kathryn A. Pollnac and Caitlín R. Kiernan.
Yesterday, I did not go out and marvel at the snow. I sat here and wrote, 1,609 words, and early in the evening I managed to finish "The Jetsam of Disremembered Mechanics." It may be a good story. I honestly could not tell you. It needs a bit of polishing, and then I'll send it off to the anthology's editor (I'll announce the book a bit later). And then I've got to get to work on Sirenia Digest #49. Though, truthfully, the last thing I want to be doing is writing.
I didn't leave the House yesterday, so I've not been out in the snow. I don't think it's going anywhere, not any time soon. The temperatures here in Providence will be below freezing until the weekend, I think. Spooky went out briefly yesterday, just a short walk, and took some photos (behind the cut, below).
Last night, we watched David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), which I somehow missed last year. I am pleased to see that it won three Oscars, as I enjoyed it a great deal. Fincher remains one of my favorite directors.
And I don't really think there's much else to say about yesterday. It was mostly writing and a movie and looking at the snow through windows:
View from one of our front parlor windows, to the east. This is essentially the same view as the photo from Saturday night (in yesterday's entry), only by daylight and with the ugly, annoying-ass inflatable Santa.
Our driveway. View to the south.
The eastern edge of the Dexter Training Grounds, view to the east.
A mailbox and telephone pole that Spooky found somewhere.
And I got this shot of an amazing sunset, though it's a pretty lousy photo. It does not begin to convey what I saw. The snow on the street was washed reddish pink. View to the southwest.
All photographs Copyright © 2009 by Kathryn A. Pollnac and Caitlín R. Kiernan.
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Date: 2009-12-21 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 04:37 pm (UTC)I do. And Spooky says she does, so long as she doesn't have to drive in it.
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Date: 2009-12-21 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 04:39 pm (UTC)And your familiars, Hubero and Smeagol.
Thank you. Though, in fact. they are more like our peculiars (via Liz Williams).
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Date: 2009-12-22 04:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 05:26 pm (UTC)Happy solstice. There was a hibiscus fire of a sunset here last night, too.
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Date: 2009-12-21 06:36 pm (UTC)There was a hibiscus fire of a sunset here last night, too.
I wish I could have seen it from the shore.
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Date: 2009-12-21 05:57 pm (UTC)Re: 12/21/09 12:47
Date: 2009-12-21 06:37 pm (UTC)happy Solstice to you and Spooky!
Thank you.
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Date: 2009-12-21 06:40 pm (UTC)They shot the film digitally, so they had (virtually) unlimited takes. My cousin said it was almost painful to watch poor Jake Gyllenhaal try to keep up with Fincher and Robert Downey Jr.
Fincher: I want that thing you did with your hands in take 27 and the intensity of take 14.
Downey Jr.: Cool. Got it.
Gyllenhaal: Um.
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Date: 2009-12-21 07:35 pm (UTC)And now I admire him even more.
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Date: 2009-12-21 08:18 pm (UTC)Um... just wanted to share that. :)
Also... yes, writing over Christmas. Me too. I can't believe I actually have 3 deadlines! I have just cancelled my plans to go away to stay with friends for the new year.
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Date: 2009-12-21 09:36 pm (UTC)I honestly hope you continue to blog forever.
Well, I was given a permanent account (thank you, GD)...but forever?
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Date: 2009-12-21 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 10:08 pm (UTC)That sunset is absolutely gorgeous.
It was. I wish I'd gotten a better photo. We need to have those windows washed.
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Date: 2009-12-22 02:11 am (UTC)From the bottom of my heart, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" for posting the pictures of snow. I live in Southern CA now and miss the snow on what I think is a molecular or genetic level as I despair so its lack this time of year...it's just inherently wrong! How does one properly track the seasons without weather change, without slate skies and sleeping trees and the world blanketed in snow?
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Date: 2009-12-22 02:39 am (UTC)There will be more snow photos tomorrow...