No pictures, just words today.
Around here:
We've been working on the garden and patio recently, Dave and I. The raised beds are ready for planting but--lo and behold--tonight's forecast is for 10 to 60 mile per hour wind and snow in the mountains (though the temperature in the city is not predicted to drop below freezing). The wind is blowing the seeds from the elm trees and in a couple of weeks we'll be pulling handfuls of elm tree seedlings out of the garden beds and around the patio.
Spring in New Mexico is wind, pollen, allergies, dust, wind, cockroaches, wind and wind. I always forget this when, in the middle of winter, I long for spring. Benadryl is my friend these days. My BFF Benny.
At the studio I've been working on various things, glazing the large planters I made months and months ago and making smaller hanging skull-shaped planters. We're likely to have a studio-wide sale at the end of June which I'll end up organizing. (The studio director wants no part of it beyond sending out postcards and paying someone to cashier during the sale.) I would like to unload some stuff. A lot is going to go for bargain prices, I'm sure. I need the room in the cubicle.
On the reading front, I'm taking a shotgun approach this week. I've got three--no, four books going all at once: The Uncommon Reader, Olive Kitteridge, I Await the Devil's Coming, and Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition. I like Scott's (he, the famous Antarctic explorer) journals very much. But I'm a sucker for a good polar expedition tome.
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I haven't read any polar expedition novels/documents, but I've seen as many movies about it as I can. Recommend your favorite PE to me. Finished Unbroken - so great. On my bedside table I currently have Lazarus is Dead, In the Heart of the Sea (lost at sea/sea drama tales are among my faves), Sacred Hunger, and Walking the Amazon. Oh and Treasure Island by Sara Levine. My husband complained about it all the way through, but finished it.... we'll see. xoxo
Hola, Laurita!
I'm intrigued by Treasure Island!!! The amazon reviewers either love or hate it (a good sign as far as I'm concerned!) and someone compares Levine to Julian Barnes (whose books I once admired greatly). Hmmm!
I just finished Richard E. Byrd's book Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure, which I enjoyed. And I've got Roald Admundson's journals cued up on my kindle (for free!). The Last Gentleman Adventurer is also very good, though less about exploration than the others I come at polar stuff through Himalayan stuff--especially the books written by and about Sherpas. Maybe it's growing up in the desert that makes the barren hostility of the poles and high mountains intriguing--?
Hope the show prep is coming along, chiquitita! ;)
don't buy Treasure Island if you haven't already! I'll pass it along when I'm done. xo
Thanks, chica!
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