Autumn walks, seals, and white elk...

[spray_of_petals]

We walk at dusk when the moon is white. I strap Tokyo to my chest so that she can watch night slip over the valley and then slowly creep up our hill; Zoe holds my hand. We walk at dusk and it's fall now. Tonight the air was sharp and everything looked incredibly clear as if it were focused through a camera lens. Clear like the frosty midnight Doug

Comments

[my_fun_lj]

You DO know that I wrote an extended LJ entry just for you, right? ::: grins :::

[spray_of_petals]

Just for me? Well damn I feel good now. I read it already, yay for me. Do I get a cookie as a treat, or something?

When are you ever going to come and visit California? Once you get your career as a porn star established, or...? :)

[my_fun_lj]

Your treat was my sitting at the computer for an hour, slaving away over a hot stove ... I mean computer ... typing an entry that was far overdue. :-D Or did you have something else in mind ... ?

Haha ... porn star. Somehow I doubt that ANYONE would want that!

Someday, when I am not afraid of planes, I will visit. Indeed.

[i_am_she]

Every single time you write like this, about California, I break down. I really truly do. You, singlehandedly, can make me homesick in an instant - you make me yearn for all of that heartbreaking beauty and for my childhood and for the magic and the mystery. California is such an incredibly important part of who I am, especially nature and hours spent alone seeing and marveling, like Zoe does.

You really have a gift, Jess. You've taken the soul of everything beautiful and pure about my home and shown it to me, time and again, in perfect clarity. Thank you. I only wish I could believe I could ever have that feeling again from myself and my interactions with California. It's forever changed for me, and has been since I "grew up", let alone moved away.

[soshesays]

I couldn't have written a comment that describes my reaction more accurately than this. Thank you.

[spray_of_petals]

Stop it you two. I'll start to feel complimented or something. I'm terrible with that.

(your words about california always make me ache for it, even when I'm already here. i'm sure i'll be reading more soon considering your visit. i look forward to it)

[soshesays]

I know I'm fortunate to have this trip around the corner, but I am simultaneously disappointed, because I'll be going to the San Diego area instead of up north where I really belong. It doesn't feel like California down there, with skyscrapers in the place of redwoods and sandy beaches in the place of dramatic cliffsides. I want to move to Orick post haste.

[jomaraubat]

My computer works again and I realise how I missed your writing. Mwah

[spray_of_petals]

I missed you, love. When can we expect an update, hmmm? I look forward to hearing about how you are. I'll keep an eye out.

hello

[spiraldancekin]

spray of petals, you write so beautifully...