The manuscript
Jan. 12th, 2008 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanDavid took this photograph while the second copy of the manuscript of Going North was being printed. I was much too focused and flustered to think of asking for a photo, but he is always good at knowing when there should be one. I'd meant to link to it earlier, but my brain is not yet grown back.
People in California, please don't hurt me. I flew out there on January 2nd to see Eric and didn't tell anybody. I was seriously brain-dead. We had an exceptionally lovely visit, despite three winter storms. We saw new birds (black turnstones! white-crowned sparrows! more than one spotted sandpiper!). We also saw whimbrels, first at Moss Beach and then a single one at Oyster Point. After we had walked a considerable distance, we were looking at some nice clown-faced surf scoters with the binoculars, and a pleasant elderly couple came up and asked us what we were seeing. We reeled off some names of birds, and they told us that they had seen an egret and an ibis. Eric very tactfully suggested that they had seen the whimbril, since it has a curved bill. We were particularly delighted with this misidentification. Another fine thing was that we looked at the same beach just before, just after, and at low, low tide a little longer after, the various storms. We went to a movie together, only the two of us -- we'd never done that. We ate a lot of sushi, including splendid vegetarian sushi. It was exactly what I needed. I am extremely, extremely fortunate in my sweeties. I'll try to be more sociable the next time.
Oh, right, the link.
http://dd-b.net/cgi-bin/picpage.pl/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/2008/01xxx-misc?pic=ddb%2020080101%20010-001
Brain still growing back. I am mostly caught up on LJ, though I haven't said much and am not sure how much information I actually retained. My regards to all.
Pamela
People in California, please don't hurt me. I flew out there on January 2nd to see Eric and didn't tell anybody. I was seriously brain-dead. We had an exceptionally lovely visit, despite three winter storms. We saw new birds (black turnstones! white-crowned sparrows! more than one spotted sandpiper!). We also saw whimbrels, first at Moss Beach and then a single one at Oyster Point. After we had walked a considerable distance, we were looking at some nice clown-faced surf scoters with the binoculars, and a pleasant elderly couple came up and asked us what we were seeing. We reeled off some names of birds, and they told us that they had seen an egret and an ibis. Eric very tactfully suggested that they had seen the whimbril, since it has a curved bill. We were particularly delighted with this misidentification. Another fine thing was that we looked at the same beach just before, just after, and at low, low tide a little longer after, the various storms. We went to a movie together, only the two of us -- we'd never done that. We ate a lot of sushi, including splendid vegetarian sushi. It was exactly what I needed. I am extremely, extremely fortunate in my sweeties. I'll try to be more sociable the next time.
Oh, right, the link.
http://dd-b.net/cgi-bin/picpage.pl/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/2008/01xxx-misc?pic=ddb%2020080101%20010-001
Brain still growing back. I am mostly caught up on LJ, though I haven't said much and am not sure how much information I actually retained. My regards to all.
Pamela
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:08 pm (UTC)Huzzah! ~hat in air~