Sunlight

[robinmckinley]

 
Yes!  A sighting!  There really is a big blinding-bright thing in the sky that makes day like day instead of like night!  I thought it was a tribal myth!*

It’s particularly shocking, this sun thing, in the middle of the night.  I did go to bed early** but the alarm still went off like half past midnight.***  It seemed to me very

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[travelintheways]

I'm also unfashionably fond of daylight savings time. I'm not a big morning person, but I love how it stays bright into the evening. It makes evening strolls so much nicer, and all the sun just generally makes me happy.

[melissajm]

Me too. I can't drive after dark, so anything that lets me get out of the house after work is good.

[elvenjaneite]

This is only my second spring in Oregon, but I swear it's been cold and rainy longer than it was last year. Today, however, we had bits of sun! I think only people living in certain climates (England evidently being one of them) can appreciate just how welcome it is.

I've always liked "On Looking Into Chapman's Homer." For one thing, it's far more concise than Keats tends to be which, I think, is a virtue in poetry. (But not novels, or blog entries.)

[robinmckinley]

For one thing, it's far more concise than Keats tends to be which, I think, is a virtue in poetry. (But not novels, or blog entries.)

*********** Well that's a relief. :) But I like Eve of St Agnes. Partly however because it also makes me laugh. . . .

[jellybeanie87]

I think my reasoning is somewhere along the lines of poetry is more intense, therefore you need less of it. Obviously Robert Browning and assorted others disagree(d), but I'm stubborn.

[robinmckinley]

Well, Eve of St Agnes or Childe Roland (or Ancient Mariner or or or . . . ) is still a lot shorter than your average novel. . . .

[jgtanthony]

"And rushing by thing y on my way to thing x, saying, oh yes, I simply must do that today. And then forgetting them both when thing z suddenly takes my wandering eye."
Peg Bracken in her I Hate to Housekeep book dubbed this sort of thing "the 'RH factor (random housekeeper). Which I am very familiar with myself. Perhaps that can be morphed into the
Random House-decorator (aka gardener) to maintain the RH bit.
So glad you had such a sunny day in so many ways!!!!!
Sunshine welcomed here too after several very grey days, YEAH!

[robinmckinley]

I've been thinking about writing a post about Peg Bracken. You saw that she died recently? Another era gone.

[anne_d]

Huzzah the sunny weather for Robin!

. . . like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific-and all his men
Looked at each other with a wild surmise-
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

This always reminds me of Swallows and Amazons - I can't remember which book at the moment, but one of the kids quotes it.

When you find where to order and install a third hand, please pass the info along. Or extra time, that'd be nice too, especially for sleeping (assuming one could get to sleep and stay that way).

[southdowner]

*** and some raindrops came after us going ‘neener neener’.***
What an apt description! I went out to fetch a sack of dog food and as I came in a few raindrops tried it on, but the sun shone them away. Hurray!

*** What Did I Think, I Was Going to Compose an Opera? ***
Maybe this is where it is all leading? Music, composition, authorship and dissatisfaction with opera stereotypes? Where are the strong female heroes in opera?

(But please finish Pegasus first, it sounds as if it might be (winged)horse related... love horses, love horses...)

[robinmckinley]

EVERY INTENTION of finishing PEGASUS (first). And after that ALBION, I hope. The opera will simply have to run *parallel* . . . :)

Who's the little fellow in your icon?

[southdowner]

ALBION!!! Wow! I'm so impressed that there seem to be a queue of stories --------Yaaaaay!!!

OK, I'll be quiet again :) Your books are always worth waiting for, no matter how long, but less long is lovely, if you follow me!

Harvey is a connemara thoroughbred now 11, named after the rabbit in James Stewart's film. I wasn't meant to have another horse, so he had to be "invisible" :p

[robinmckinley]

Harvey is a connemara thoroughbred now 11, named after the rabbit in James Stewart's film. I wasn't meant to have another horse, so he had to be "invisible" :p

********* LOL!!!!!!! That should be an excellent cross too?