The tulips have broken through the ground
Mar. 17th, 2007 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanThe first tulips to come up every spring, though not the first to bloom, just appeared, between yesterday afternoon when I looked for them and found only the bare ground, and this morning when I took Ari for a walk and saw just the barest yellowish tips emerging. These are some glorious deep purple ones in the bed under Lydy's office windows. The first ones to bloom will probably be up in a day or so. Those are classic red tulips with yellow centers and strange dark-blue stamens -- Apfeldoorns.
The birds have started seriously tuning up for the grand concerts of April and May. I haven't seen any robins or any juncoes in my yard recently, which gives me a very odd sensation of being suspended between proper seasons. I guess this is what one of my garden books calls "pre-spring." The trees are thick with buds and some maples are blooming. I suspect the elms of being blooming or ready to do so as well.
Inside the house, everything is in dire need of cleaning and sorting, but mostly I'm just floundering around in my novel. I had originally intended to call this entry "Stupid Book," but the book isn't stupid; it's doing the best it can when it's only got my brain to work with. Every single time I poke around in The Whim of the Dragon to confirm some detail or remind myself of how something was previously described, I run across some staggering fact that I had utterly forgotten. Eric has sensibly reminded me that what I need to be doing with the earlier chapters, in light of these discoveries, isn't even at the level of retconning, because there is as yet no con to ret. It's disconcerting, however. I will favor you with the latest realization. Unlike the others, where I knew perfectly well while writing Whim that this or that event had occurred, this is something implied by the trilogy but never addressed. Ruth is a farm kid. It didn't matter much for the trilogy, since only a few chapters are from her viewpoint, and she has a great deal of more immediate importance on her mind. But it matters now.
Nobody in this book has learned to shut up yet, either.
So I guess I'm the one who will have to learn it. You guys don't need to, though. I read your journals regularly and am always interested and concerned.
Pamela
The birds have started seriously tuning up for the grand concerts of April and May. I haven't seen any robins or any juncoes in my yard recently, which gives me a very odd sensation of being suspended between proper seasons. I guess this is what one of my garden books calls "pre-spring." The trees are thick with buds and some maples are blooming. I suspect the elms of being blooming or ready to do so as well.
Inside the house, everything is in dire need of cleaning and sorting, but mostly I'm just floundering around in my novel. I had originally intended to call this entry "Stupid Book," but the book isn't stupid; it's doing the best it can when it's only got my brain to work with. Every single time I poke around in The Whim of the Dragon to confirm some detail or remind myself of how something was previously described, I run across some staggering fact that I had utterly forgotten. Eric has sensibly reminded me that what I need to be doing with the earlier chapters, in light of these discoveries, isn't even at the level of retconning, because there is as yet no con to ret. It's disconcerting, however. I will favor you with the latest realization. Unlike the others, where I knew perfectly well while writing Whim that this or that event had occurred, this is something implied by the trilogy but never addressed. Ruth is a farm kid. It didn't matter much for the trilogy, since only a few chapters are from her viewpoint, and she has a great deal of more immediate importance on her mind. But it matters now.
Nobody in this book has learned to shut up yet, either.
So I guess I'm the one who will have to learn it. You guys don't need to, though. I read your journals regularly and am always interested and concerned.
Pamela
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Date: 2007-03-17 11:35 pm (UTC)I love your garden reports. I wonder what your little gray guys are. Possibly juncoes, but those are really a dark slaty gray, so probably not.
P.
and my starlings are probably grackles too
Date: 2007-03-17 11:45 pm (UTC)Yup. I think you're right. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Dark-eyed_Junco.html and thanks!